00:03:11.000So I can at least give somebody respect by saying, Well, you know, they can change their mind, right?
00:03:16.000The only thing I think about the guy is that, you know, he had it for 20 years and it wasn't an accident.
00:03:19.000Only when he got caught with it while already running for office did he decide to cover it up.
00:03:25.000Now, here's the funny thing that did not sink him.
00:03:28.000Democrats were told that this guy is a history buff with a totem comp on his chest, and they were like, that's totally fine.
00:03:36.000Then they find out he was sexting with women.
00:03:40.000Oh, that's a bridge too far, apparently.
00:03:43.000Now there's this screenshot going around.
00:03:45.000From the Wall Street Journal, where apparently he was referring to his, you know what, as Mein Fuhrer and asking women if he could have permission to blitzkrieg that ass.
00:03:56.000Okay, I would be remiss if I did not say that's a fake screenshot that's going around, but there's a political element to this.
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00:09:13.000It's a screenshot from the Wall Street Journal that reads In one message seen by the Wall Street Journal, Platner refers to his penis as Mein Fuhrer and asks the woman if she would like for Platner to blitzkrieg that ass.
00:09:27.000Now, this story, of course, has to do with this scandal that is rocking the Platner campaign.
00:09:32.000And I have to stress this the funniest thing about it is that dude can literally have a Nazi tattoo.
00:10:40.000Only now that he's being accused of being a sex pest are they actually threatening his campaign.
00:10:47.000And Mills, the other Democrat who is the corporate Dem who was running in the primary, is now reminding everybody that she's still running.
00:11:48.000He's got a long record of being just a basically bottom of the barrel scum human.
00:11:52.000I mean, you can run down the list with this guy, Planner.
00:11:55.000Yeah, he is somebody who talked about seeing guys get killed, Purple Heart recipient soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan get killed.
00:12:05.000And his comment was that they deserve to die.
00:12:09.000He's got a treasure trove of psychotic stuff that this guy was posting on Reddit.
00:12:15.000I mean, putting the racism, the misogynist stuff, you know, the various different kinds of psychotic bigotry aside from the Reddit account, he was also talking about masturbating in public porta potties.
00:12:28.000Every time he sees a porta potty and he smells that blue liquid that fills those porta potties, he gets mad.
00:13:10.000And this is who the Democratic Party rallies behind in Maine to beat big, bad, scary Susan Collins, who is like pro choice and the most centrist Republican in the entire Senate.
00:14:14.000Why do you think it is, since you are a pollster, why do you think it is that she overperforms and then, like, obviously has, like, you said, like, she gets a lot of stories where it looks like she's doing bad, but then she ends up doing better?
00:14:25.000I think there are weird idiosyncratic reasons like Maine is a really hard state to poll with a lot of cross partisan voters, meaning voters who may be registered as a Democrat or consistently vote for Democrats in presidential election, but are independent minded.
00:14:41.000You ever see that meme of the guy wearing the shirt?
00:14:44.000I think it might be in like Vermont, but there's a spiritually similar voter in Maine, and the shirt says, I love my AR 15 and my trans son.
00:14:52.000Like, there's a lot of weirdos like that who just have kind of politics all over the map, hard to pin down ideologically.
00:14:58.000Especially in the Northeast and those backwoods of Maine.
00:15:02.000But I think that's partially why Susan Collins is such a survivor there.
00:15:09.000She's not the way we conceive of like a political outsider, right?
00:15:15.000Someone who doesn't fit into a camp neatly.
00:15:18.000Oh, that's got to be someone who's super duper populist or super duper like Maha or granola crunchy.
00:15:26.000And actually, sometimes it can be Susan Collins who's just kind of a pro business.
00:15:31.000Milk toast moderate Republican who doesn't get too animated over cultural issues.
00:15:36.000But I think that's why they go for a Platner.
00:15:38.000If Susan Collins is attacking the middle of the road, then what are Democrats offering?
00:15:42.000So that's why so many people, and basically that's why I think the Nazi scandal didn't break early because there are a lot of people in the Democratic consultant class who convince themselves that we need someone who doesn't fit the natural paradigm either.
00:15:57.000We need Grant Platner because he goes on a white supremacist Nazi guys podcast.
00:16:45.000I mean, is Platner's appeal to the Democrats the fact that he's like a white guy and they're like, well, maybe we can go ahead and kind of reach the quote unquote normal Democrat?
00:16:53.000Well, this is, that strikes at something very accurate.
00:16:59.000Something else that happened a few weeks ago was that a Democratic consultant at a political consulting firm based in New York, I think Slingshot Strategies, reaches out to Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports and tries to get him to participate in some kind of podcast crossover video content distribution event with Graham Plattner.
00:17:23.000Because Graham Plattner is going to be talking about the owner of the Boston Red Sox.
00:17:30.000how he's a grubby, I don't know, private equity guy or whatever.
00:17:46.000Let's reach out to Dave Portnoy and see if he'll talk.
00:17:49.000It's like, no, dude, Dave Portnoy is Jewish, doesn't hate Israel, and also like a pro business moderate Republican.
00:17:57.000He's not going to be positively inclined to doing a powwow, wonderful, friendly chat with Nazi tattoo, psycho Reddit brain guy you're running for Senate in Maine.
00:18:42.000We can just trot him out there, and a bunch of dumb white jocks will vote for the Democrats.
00:18:46.000Do you think that it's just a lack of understanding of what it is that, you know, the.
00:18:53.000The general conservative, or maybe even the non woke people, are looking for.
00:18:57.000Because if you look at Platner and the things that he said in the past, never mind the scandalous stuff, but like the statements that he makes, he's just as woke as Ilhan Omar or AOC.
00:19:10.000There's no significant light between any of those people.
00:19:14.000So it's like, is it all just identity with them where they're just like, well, it's a white guy and we can go ahead and put this face out there, but the policies are going to be the kind of policies that the Democrats have been pushing and failing?
00:19:37.000Donald Trump, it's pretty clear that Susan Collins is not his favorite U.S. senator, but he is willing to tolerate some amount of ideological diversity within the conservative coalition, especially if that's going to get you a candidate elected.
00:20:11.000Because that's the only thing they can come up with.
00:20:13.000Look at this guy, Tallarico, James Tallarico, running for Senate in Texas, too.
00:20:17.000I don't want to take us too far off topic to another race, but here's another guy who they said, oh, he talks about God, he talks about the Bible.
00:21:15.000As you said, Phil, it's like Taylorico was assumed by Democrats to be the kind of candidate who would break through in Texas because he sprinkles in God and Jesus in here and there.
00:21:53.000I'd like to talk about the state of the Democratic Party with this video we have from Breitbart Woke Overload.
00:21:59.000Democrat lawmakers Yasemin Ansari, Adelita Grijalva, and Rashida Taleb recently at the press conference.
00:22:05.000On how much their periods hurt and how it is economic violence when their employers don't pay women to stay home and work when their menstruation.
00:22:16.000Today, we are here to talk about women's pain and how long it's been overlooked.
00:22:21.000In the summer of 2015, while starting my career in New York City, I woke up on the floor of my local bodega, drenched in sweat, being dragged into an ambulance.
00:22:31.000Two male paramedics hovered over me and continued to ask me if I was pregnant.
00:25:23.000So I was reading an article earlier about Curry Barker and Kane Parsons, who have the two biggest movies in the world right now with obsession.
00:25:34.000And I was reading this article about how the YouTuber to Hollywood pipeline is actually sexist because to be successful on YouTube, and this was their example, they gave the Mr. Beast example where they work long hours that you're not rewarded initially because you won't make money initially.
00:25:50.000You got to put a bunch of unpaid labor into it.
00:25:51.000And women can't do that because they have, they take up all the emotional labor at home and they do the majority of the household duties.
00:25:58.000I said, Mr. Beast was not married when he was.
00:26:03.000All he did was work all day, every day, because that was his prerogative.
00:26:07.000And they were still framing it as if YouTube wasn't a democratized platform because it rewards things that men prefer, like working longer hours.
00:26:16.000On the contrary, I think like we are starting to see John Doyle had a post about this earlier.
00:31:37.000Look, this crap is going around all over the country right now.
00:31:41.000Every time I see a protest where, whether it's the Gaza people or the climate people or the LGBTQIA alphabet people, and they're blocking a road or they're harassing people sitting at an outdoor restaurant, I just want to scream because I'm like, that's illegal.
00:32:26.000And the point that I'm making is just there were people that were incumbents that were not what you would consider MAGA people that were not really interested in doing the will of the voter.
00:32:36.000Do you think that that's going to change?
00:32:38.000Well, look, the perfect example of that is Thomas Massey, right?
00:32:41.000You don't get elected to vote no on everything all the time.
00:32:44.000And then you say, I stuck to my principles, but also I voted against Trump's tax cut, I voted against border funding.
00:32:53.000And I understand the sympathetic view to the libertarian position.
00:32:59.000But at the same time, if you're not a wheeler and dealer, you're not somebody who's cutting deals in Washington, you're going to get burned.
00:33:04.000Well, the issue is that there's a war going on.
00:33:07.000And in whatever respect, war would mean.
00:33:39.000Could have won a Republican primary in his own district where he's like, where he has like 100% name ID.
00:33:46.000I mean, if you can't win there, you're not winning a presidential primary.
00:33:49.000But here's the thing if y'all want to scream AIPAC in Israel, you're allowed to do that.
00:33:53.000You think he's going to go up against the national machine and win when he's up against, in your mind, you think Israel wants to stop him there?
00:34:00.000You think they're going to want to be anywhere near the presidency?
00:34:03.000If you think Israel killed Charlie Kirk, you think Thomas Massey can win a presidential primary and run as a Republican nominee?
00:34:12.000I don't understand how someone could say that a seven term incumbent that lost his congressional seat is then going to go on and win the presidency.
00:34:21.000It's like DPAC is a collection of Americans who have a lot of independent wealth who think that.
00:34:27.000There's advantages to the United States by having a positive working relationship with, you know, Jewish Wakanda hanging out in the Middle East that makes a lot of super weapons.
00:34:40.000And by the way, that's not Israel spending their money in our elections to meddle.
00:34:45.000It's a lot of Americans who have that view.
00:34:47.000And you can be unhappy with it, but they're wealthy and they're going to spend a lot of money in politics.
00:34:51.000And I do want to point out one thing like, there's a lot of us sitting here that have been very, very friendly towards Thomas Massey and a really, really good opinion of Thomas Massey.
00:35:08.000So it was a chicken coop that was on a solar powered motorized cable system that would slowly move so the chickens were always over fresh grass.
00:35:19.000And he said that you can see the trail behind the coop is all lush green grass from the chicken poop.
00:36:05.000But Democrats are trying to give kids sex changes, open our borders.
00:36:09.000So we're dealing with an existential crisis on all fronts.
00:36:12.000Now is not the time to stand up and just be like, I will stand here on this hallowed ground of my principles, even as I am washed aflame and burned to death.
00:36:20.000The other thing, Tim, about Massey is that the only time he could ever wheel and deal or operate with folks on the other side of the aisle, it wasn't to sneak in amendments that were going to be helpful for his home district in like big omnibus spending bills.
00:36:36.000It was like, let me go shitpost with Ro Khanna and like, Get a random guy who appeared in a lineup with some other people in the Epstein files and exposed this dude who's a dentist and dox him for the whole world.
00:36:50.000Like, this is not stuff that's particularly constructive.
00:36:54.000That's what his voters felt like at that point.
00:37:35.000But once again, the bigger question is do we want to stand on our principles while we're being fired upon by lunatics, or do we say, guys, we have to win an existential crisis?
00:37:46.000Before, you know, you got to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you put it on the people next to you.
00:37:52.000So I would just say Nassie does well with young people, but now boomers, and boomers ain't going to be around forever.
00:37:57.000So I'll be curious to see where this actually goes.
00:38:00.000It's also, young Republicans are a little bit of an oxymoronic demographic in and of itself.
00:38:05.000Most people become Republicans when they're older.
00:38:07.000People are, you asked me a question about polling earlier.
00:38:11.000That's like an important thing to understand about polling.
00:38:14.000Anytime you see polling of young Republicans, You have to keep in mind that you're looking at a deeply eccentric group in and of itself.
00:38:22.000It's not that young people become Republicans, it's that Republicans adapt to young people.
00:38:28.000So if you look at the political positions held by Republicans today, Republicans 10 years ago would have been like, Are you out of your mind?
00:38:35.000Donald Trump unfurled a pride flag at the RNC in 2016 and they applauded him for it.
00:38:41.000Go back 10 years, never going to happen.
00:38:45.000As young people, as the political consultants, C, we need to attract people who care about low taxes.
00:38:52.000And what was the big trend back, you know, 2012?
00:38:56.000It was socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
00:39:39.000Well, the Democrats were more to the right on immigration, absolutely.
00:39:41.000But I think the Republicans were more to the left and Trump pulled them to the right.
00:39:43.000But here's what I will say you're right on net.
00:39:46.000Donald Trump, and this is so lost on most people who talk about politics and observe politics.
00:39:52.000Donald Trump is a massive moderating force on the Republican Party, and that is partially why he's helped them yield a lot of political success.
00:40:01.000That's actually really interesting, too, considering you're saying that one of the things he did pull them rightward on was immigration, which is one of the biggest cruxes for the liberals, is that they have now come so far down the other side on that issue as they're making it seem like everything Trump does is far right, when for the most part, he's been moderate in most of his other schools.
00:40:18.000We've also got people on our side that are a little bit disingenuous about Trump's position on immigration, right?
00:40:24.000Suggesting that, like, Trump is not a hardcore restrictionist.
00:40:29.000Every time Trump talks about immigration, he's like, I want the talented people.
00:40:41.000But Donald Trump's position on that is selectionist.
00:40:45.000We'll take the good people and leave the bad ones.
00:40:47.000The problem is, though, is like, even if he does have a more open position on immigration, it doesn't actually matter because ICE does so many.
00:40:55.000Hype reels and videos that end up giving them bad press, that functionally it doesn't matter because it makes them look uncaring.
00:43:18.000This besmirches the prestige of the Oxford Union debate hall because the government is not allowing people to come in and actually have those debates.
00:43:52.000Like, this is the principal political issue that's led to, partially, I should say, reform UK and unite the kingdom that literally people sneak into the country.
00:44:02.000But, you know, and then someone said, go to Ireland.
00:44:04.000And he's like, it's not about being in the vicinity.
00:44:23.000And it's like, I think the reason cited was his presence wouldn't be conducive to the public good.
00:44:30.000That's the same reason that they said that Valentina Gomez and all these other people who are going to come participate in the Tommy Robinson event were denied entry.
00:44:38.000I think they said the same thing for Kanye.
00:45:14.000Why should, you know, the commentary we see from Glenn Greenwald and many other prominent liberals is that, and even Hassan himself, this is what Trump has created when they start deporting people for criticizing Israel.
00:45:26.000And my point is, How can a country survive if they open their doors to their enemies to come and espouse a message against them?
00:45:35.000Now, don't get me wrong, the Israel thing I get.
00:45:36.000Like the conundrum there is Trump and the US, as well as Israel and APEC, do not want people who are going to come in and advocate against US military strategy, their allies, their spending, et cetera.
00:45:50.000However, I think it's fair to say that for many activists, the idea that coming to the United States, like if you're a student and you're critical of Israel, they deport you.
00:46:00.000It's like, I'm not talking about the United States, but again, the argument is you're disruptive to our military alliances or whatever.
00:46:08.000Tolerate opening our door to tourists and students who are coming here for the explicit purpose of denouncing us and advocating to our young people to hate their own country.
00:46:45.000The left believes the Second Amendment doesn't protect the rights to keep and bear arms, and the right believes it does.
00:46:50.000The Constitution has been amended and reinterpreted over and over again.
00:46:53.000The people believe wildly different things.
00:46:57.000What I can say is this it is an exploitation of the left onto the right to say you have to stand on your principles of free speech.
00:47:06.000Meanwhile, they would argue you can't say naughty words, they'll fire you from your job.
00:47:11.000They will make it so you can never work again, kick you out of your school, ban you from social media and video games if you say naughty words, then argue you have to allow in foreigners into your country under your own principles to disparage your nation and you.
00:47:31.000Look, Mahmoud Khalil comes to mind, right?
00:47:36.000This is someone who is essentially like you invite a party guest over for a house party and then they come and take a piss on the rug.
00:47:45.000It's like I've invited you as a guest into my country to come learn from my university.
00:47:52.000Hopefully, earn a degree that leads to you doing constructive.
00:47:55.000Hopefully, my country benefits from that education you receive and you work here.
00:48:00.000But if that doesn't work out and you come here exclusively to agitate against this country's interests and to engage in civil terrorism day in and day out by blocking roads and interrupting classes and harassing people sitting outdoors at restaurants.
00:48:19.000You have not been a very good guest, and I would like to see you removed.
00:48:24.000I don't get particular, I don't disagree with you that it would be bad if the Oxford Union said, Hassan Piker, we don't want you speaking because.
00:49:02.000Part of the problem is that the global left has elevated Hassan Piker as one of the spokesmen for its causes, someone so grotesque and anti Western that the UK is literally saying you cannot go.
00:49:14.000Yeah, but they're betting Tommy Robinson's friends too.
00:49:16.000And many of those guys are pro Israel.
00:49:17.000The ultimate issue is this the sooner the American traditionalists, like.
00:49:23.000Actual American Republicanists understand the nature of a constitution, the sooner we actually see them fight back and win.
00:49:30.000And the point is, Republicans, conservatives say things like, I believe in the Constitution.
00:49:38.000You then get a person like Hassan who challenges you under your interpretation to uphold the Constitution while not caring whatsoever whether they do or don't.
00:49:48.000That is, the right, I hear this all the time from people on the right where they say, I support the Constitution, the left doesn't.
00:49:56.000And my response is, which interpretation of the First Amendment is the one you're fighting for?
00:50:06.000Tell me where you draw the line on which constitutional First Amendment you're actually agreeing with.
00:50:11.000Because if you want to go back to the founders, then blasphemy is illegal.
00:50:14.000There are a lot of conservatives that want that to be the case.
00:50:17.000My point is this the Constitution just means the body politic.
00:50:21.000And right now, there are two in this country.
00:50:24.000So you've got to decide what you are willing to stand up for.
00:50:27.000And this idea that you're fighting for the founding fathers' visions is just not correct.
00:50:32.000It can be correct in the sense that they Open the door to amending the Constitution so that we can do things a little differently as times change.
00:50:39.000The problem now is you have two distinct worldviews, and one says we don't care about what is written down, the other does.
00:50:46.000If the right is constrained by their interpretation of the Constitution and the left is not, the right will be flattened.
00:50:52.000Well, generally speaking, progressives are not advocating for amendments to the Constitution.
00:50:58.000They're advocating for selective reinterpretation that just confirms their current worldview.
00:51:18.000The original interpretation of the Second Amendment was that the federal government could not take your guns, but the laws were left unto the states to deal with themselves.
00:51:25.000That meant if Virginia wanted to ban guns, they could, but the federal government couldn't send armed forces to come and take your guns away.
00:51:31.000In 2008, the right decided, and I love it because I agree with it, that this federal protection should extend.
00:51:39.000And constrain the states as well, despite the fact that the 10th Amendment, which is supposed to protect the states from this.
00:51:46.000So conservatives like to say, Oh, I believe in the Constitution.
00:51:49.000I'm like, Yeah, well, the 10th Amendment would stop you from forcing Virginia to be held to the federal constitutional standard.
00:51:55.000The states were supposed to be allowed to enforce the laws as they saw it.
00:51:58.000And if you didn't like Virginia, you'd move somewhere else.
00:52:00.000We can say the same thing with basically all of them.
00:52:04.000My favorite right now is the 7th Amendment, in which case, we actually, the 7th Amendment doesn't even exist.
00:52:09.000The right to civil trials for things, we just to inflation.
00:52:12.000Seventh Amendment protects your right to a jury trial on civil matters, $700 or more.
00:52:20.000They can force you into arbitration, even though it's a constitutional right.
00:52:23.000So ultimately, my point is you take a look now at the 14th Amendment, and the left and the right are both arguing what it's really supposed to mean.
00:52:31.000And the left says it means anyone who comes here and is born as a citizen, and the right says no, it meant anyone who was born.
00:52:39.000It doesn't matter if you think you're right or wrong.
00:52:41.000That's a good example of the right seeking to, you know, playing the reinterpretation role because the plain reading of the 14th Amendment is probably closer to.
00:53:28.000And then the left in, was it Wong Kim Ark or whatever in like 1890s, reinterpreted that under a textualist argument to say literally everybody from any point moving forward is going to be a citizen.
00:53:40.000My point ultimately is we can say we are right about what the Constitution is supposed to do.
00:53:45.000There are many areas where the conservatives are completely wrong.
00:53:50.000Do you think, let's say you're walking down the street and there's a guy standing on a street corner and he blurts out, Christ is not king?
00:54:06.000The Founding Fathers probably would have had some amount of internal disagreement.
00:54:09.000It was a crime, and people were jailed hardcore for blasphemy up to the mid 1800s when we had the Supreme Court ruling that confirmed the conviction of a man who said something to the effect of Christ is not king.
00:54:54.000You had to be an avowed, you had to express a belief in a Christian God.
00:55:00.000And so this started to get amended out of state constitutions and laws in the mid to late 1700s.
00:55:07.000Maryland, so most of the states required you to profess a faith in a Protestant God, except for, I think, Virginia, because Jefferson was a deist and said, just believe in God and you're good, in which case Jews could.
00:55:19.000And then you had Maryland, which was a Catholic colony.
00:55:21.000So they didn't say Protestant, they said whatever.
00:55:23.000And I think Connecticut was similarly.
00:55:25.000They started to remove these provisions or amend them into the 1800s, near the end of the 1700s, specifically because they were Catholics and Protestants that were kind of at odds.
00:55:36.000So when they said freedom of religion, If you look at what was actually going on, they were saying you have a freedom to be Catholic or Protestant, was basically it.
00:55:44.000In the early to mid 1800s, some guy was a universal Unitarian, he blasphemed, and this was the last time it went to the Supreme Court, and they upheld his conviction.
00:55:52.000And then I believe the formal end to blasphemy was 1956, a Supreme Court interpretation.
00:56:13.000But I think the evolution of this country politically has been to allow anyone to worship as they see fit.
00:56:21.000That defies the founding fathers' vision for this country.
00:56:24.000Now, to be fair, the founding fathers had amendments as a part of the Constitution so that these things could change and a Supreme Court to interpret these things.
00:56:31.000But here we are today questioning whether or not we should support the Constitution while not, for the large part, being cognizant of the fact, and liberals are, that we're just choosing the values of the collective on the right, which is a disparate.
00:56:46.000Collective of various individuals, various different political factions, libertarians, conservative, MAGA, populists, or otherwise neocons.
00:56:54.000The liberals, the left, like Hassan Piker, you go to private meetings, these people, activist meetings, they will tell you explicitly they know everything I said.
00:57:02.000Their whole postmodernist worldview is the truth is what we decide.
00:57:07.000And they will lie to you so they can get power.
00:57:11.000If the right is not aware of these issues pertaining to the Constitution and the body politic, Then they will get crushed by a manipulative left that will exploit their good faith in American institutions.
00:57:21.000And they've been doing it for a long time.
00:57:23.000Again, when they say to you, Do you believe in free speech?
00:57:26.000And you're like, yes, then why would you ban the Muslim foreigner who came here espousing jihad?
00:57:32.000It's like, well, because he wants to kill me.
00:57:34.000Oh, but you believe in free speech, right?
00:57:38.000I mean that if you're an American citizen, if you were born here, and you have criticisms of the governments, no matter what they may be, even if you're a jihadi or whatever, you're allowed to do it.
00:57:47.000But the idea that we invite foreigners to come in and expand upon that dissent and to inflame it or fund it is insane.
00:57:54.000The idea that we would allow foreign nations, be it Qatar or Israel, To fund political sentiment in this country and manipulate it is insane.
00:58:03.000And then they go, But don't you believe in free speech?
00:58:16.000In which case, you ask me what I'm for in terms of free speech the right of an American citizen to express their political worldview.
00:58:22.000American citizen being the operative word there that makes the Mahmoud Khalil situation a little bit more flexible for sure.
00:58:29.000I just wonder how much of that is just because we become such a, like, so much of the country is inflamed now around the idea of immigration that this is just not something that people were thinking about even 15 years ago.
00:58:41.000I talk about this with censorship because I love this line.
00:58:45.000I get, you know, these liberals who never watch this show and have no idea what I think, they'll be like, aren't you an anti censorship guy?
00:59:11.000If the president can only meaningfully communicate in a privately owned stadium, you've created a public harm when you ban random people through private choice.
00:59:21.000This is why we have something called publicly owned private spaces.
00:59:24.000There are special rules pertaining to property when, so this pertains to Occupy Wall Street.
00:59:45.000It's going to be considered public now.
00:59:47.000So, my argument is the line in which Twitter or Facebook X now loses their right to ban people willy nilly is when they become monopolistic.
00:59:55.000And not even necessarily monopolistic, but duopolistic or triopolistic or whatever it might be.
00:59:59.000There's like three big tech platforms for communication.
01:00:03.000If you are to ban someone from any one of those platforms, the idea that I can go to Facebook.
01:00:07.000It's not correct if Facebook is banning me.
01:00:09.000So, the other thing, too, is censorship is good.
01:00:11.000Censorship means getting rid of gore, child abuse, you know, crime videos, advocacy for crime.
01:00:27.000This goes back to what, like, the 1960s, I think, where the Supreme Court explicitly stated you are allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater.
01:01:43.000But the cartridges were made of paper.
01:01:45.000So they would take a piece of paper, they'd put the slug in it, they'd pour the powder, and then they'd twist it.
01:01:50.000And then you breach, you break barrel and slide it in and close it, and they put a percussion cap on it.
01:01:55.000The hammer hits the cap and sends a spark into the fire.
01:01:58.000So the Union had that to battle Gettysburg.
01:02:00.000That's how they crushed the Confederates, but that's a whole other thing.
01:02:03.000Anyway, long story short, guys, you need to understand that the only thing that's going to matter is your willingness to uphold your values and refuse to stand down.
01:02:14.000When they come to you and say, you must allow me to espouse the destruction of your nation because that is within your principles, you simply say, no.
01:02:22.000For the principle of free speech under the First Amendment only exists so long as we defend this nation from those who would seek to destroy it.
01:02:28.000And if you would seek to use the First or Second Amendment to destroy the rights under the First or Second Amendment, it becomes oxymoronic.
01:02:35.000It becomes moot and paradoxical, in which case, I no longer respect your right to retain those rights or to be protected under those amendments.
01:05:05.000In Boston on Saturday, there was another meteor, and there was a sonic boom and two earthquakes in South Carolina, all within like a couple of days of each other.
01:05:17.000They meteor in Boston, they think actually landed in the Gulf of the Cape.
01:06:51.000So there's this viral Reddit post where they claimed the US government became apprised of the existence of Enids, what they call Nordics, but the Nordics call themselves the Enids.
01:07:01.00065,000 years ago, aliens took, oh no, not 65,000 years ago, hundreds of thousands of years ago or something, early humans were taken by aliens to a different planet where they would be given access to technology and education immediately so they could compare the two civilizations, one with abundance and information, one without to see how they developed.
01:07:24.000So, the Enids are massively more advanced than humans.
01:07:28.000And now the theory is they come to Earth to research humans in the wild because they were raised in captivity with technology and they have a very specific moral worldview.
01:07:40.000They come here and intermingle among us and look just like regular humans because they are.
01:07:57.000From the New York Post, whistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliens.
01:08:03.000Now, how would that make sense, right?
01:08:05.000How would it make sense for the CIA to take DNA from Ancestry and 23andMe to find aliens if these are just human customers, unless people with no DNA?
01:08:18.000There are humans that are alien to this planet that come from somewhere else and have already hybridized, and there are people on this planet who do not realize they have alien DNA in them.
01:08:30.000And so the CIA, aware of this, is like, we got to figure out who the sleepers are.
01:08:35.000I suppose right after this story came out was when Trump had the thing about aliens walk amongst us, and it was actually just SEO optimization to get this dude that was such a letdown.
01:08:45.000And then it was like an illegal aliens website.
01:09:03.000Yeah, that's kind of my big conspiracy theory is that government is actually just so woefully incompetent at everything that, like, they've actually achieved very little.
01:09:59.000Weave goes to prison because he and this other guy discovered when Apple released this iPad, the way it worked is you'd buy the iPad, and then it would, when you open the tablet, it would auto load your email based on like where you bought it from, like ATT or whatever.
01:10:17.000And so they were like, how does it know?
01:10:20.000And they saw in the URL that it auto loaded was a number.
01:10:23.000So this one dude says, I'm going to change, you know, it says like 7913261.
01:10:28.000I'm going to change the one to a two, increment it up one.
01:10:31.000Sure enough, it fed him back a different email.
01:10:34.000And then they realized they just straight have a raw, unencrypted database of everyone's email who bought an iPad.
01:10:41.000And so not we, but this other guy wrote a script that would just auto load all of the URLs, collecting a list of the emails, which they then turned over to a journalist, which is normal.
01:11:03.000The federal government then went down to Georgia and arrested him under the CFAA, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, claiming that what he did was illegal, even though he didn't actually do it.
01:11:11.000The big question was, why did he get five years in prison for loading a URL?
01:11:17.000Well, some of the people in the hackerspace told me, it's not really about that.
01:11:25.000It's just the only thing they can get him on.
01:11:28.000And they told me this story where he apparently called Pakistan, spoofing India, threatening to nuke them, potentially triggering a nuclear war in World War III.
01:11:36.000My point is this a lot of people believe that governments are incompetent.
01:11:40.000And it is true, massive systems at scale are extremely difficult to maintain.
01:11:45.000That being said, I actually think it's extremely easy for a single individual to nuke the world, in essence.
01:11:59.000Where the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Associated Press on Twitter and put up a fake tweet saying that Obama had gone off at the White House and then Obama was injured.
01:12:07.000So, this was like 12 years ago or something.
01:12:08.000Actually, it might have been 13 years ago.
01:12:11.000The stock dropped by like $10 billion.
01:12:16.000All because some like 20 year old kid in Moscow spoofed some intern at Associated Press's email, tricked them into giving him access to Twitter, and then he just tweeted a sentence and billions of dollars wiped off the stock market.
01:12:33.000At the time, it bounced back something like 80%, meaning tens of billions of dollars of wealth transferred hands in that moment, all because some college intern kid tricked some other college intern kid.
01:12:45.000So, again, we talk about is the government competent, capable of doing these things?
01:13:02.000If a prominent, high profile conservative personality fabricated a news story, like a serious one, you take a look at the JD Vance couch story, which is a big, you know, it comes up in the platinum one.
01:13:17.000Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and all these pundits run it like it's true to trick people into believing it's true to destroy JD Vance.
01:14:14.000I think about it quite a bit how easy it would be.
01:14:18.000Well, going back to that point about the fabricated page from JD Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, that talks about him having sex with a guy in a cushion or whatever, that was kind of the brilliant aspect of this it didn't even need to be true.
01:14:35.000It just needed to kind of code as generally something that was in the right register and tone of the book.
01:14:42.000Such that you could get people to believe it.
01:14:45.000And all of these people, when I run these focus groups out in the country now and I talk to people about where they're consuming news, hardly anybody ever names an outlet, especially the younger the people you're talking to.
01:14:59.000So last year I got invited to meet at the Blair House with Netanyahu.
01:15:03.000I could have said anything, I could have confirmed the bias.
01:15:08.000What actually happened was he blathered on about Socrates and like the judicial system or something, it was kind of boring.
01:15:13.000And then he argued why the United States needed to go to war with Iran.
01:15:17.000To which half the room was like, oh, no, we don't want to do this.
01:15:20.000And the other half was like, we must because Israel is so good.
01:15:23.000What if one person in that meeting came out and claimed that Nanya went up to him and offered him $7,000 to lie and just insert any lie you want?
01:15:32.000They would be invited on every anti Israel podcast.
01:15:35.000They would be invited to speak in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
01:15:58.000I'll give a shout out to Dave Smith, who recently criticized conservatives.
01:16:05.000He said that they will complain about George Soros all the time, but seem to ignore Miriam Adelson, to which I will stress that Dave, you supported Trump in 2024 when it was a major scandal.
01:16:19.000For the anti Trump factions, that Miriam Adelson committed $100 million towards his election, I believe through PACs and other special interest groups, in which the stories published by many progressive groups, as well as like Al Jazeera, was that a contingency was she wanted Israel to annex the West Bank.
01:16:39.000So for Dave Smith, who missed that story, I guess.
01:16:42.000She didn't get her money's worth, if that's the case, because that hasn't happened.
01:17:12.000And that's why I view them all as disingenuous.
01:17:14.000He's also been in Washington for a very long time.
01:17:16.000He knows these players, he knows the name of the game.
01:17:18.000I'm sorry, like, there's also another piece of that Dave Smith quote you just came up with that.
01:17:24.000Doesn't that need to be sort of clarified, which is that George Soros spends tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars on liberal causes and helping to elect far left Democrats to office.
01:17:36.000And Miriam Adolphson spends tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars more than literally anyone in the country to elect Republicans to office.
01:17:45.000And that is how she's been spending her fortune for years and years and years.
01:17:48.000Since before when her husband was around, that was how they spent it.
01:17:52.000Well, it's because Israel is clickworthy right now.
01:19:23.000We are contractually obligated to get 200,000 more.
01:19:27.000This is also true, not so much these days with the podcast space, because now sponsorships, The way they do it is like, it's with, I guess for Fusion, they're like a newer company and they needed money upfront.
01:19:38.000There's something called upfronts in the media business where you take the aggregate, like past two quarterly averages and then sell ads based off of those.
01:19:48.000But for some of these contracts, they're like, look, in Q3 and Q4, we averaged, you know, 30 million per month.
01:20:21.000You know, you've got Trump and a fresh presidency with the first 100 days, then, you know, the controversies that slowly trickle down and the viewership declines.
01:20:56.000If you're a political show and you're trying to attract new viewers, but Americans are outside of the political space in the off season, you need to find politics that will be attractive to foreign individuals.
01:21:46.000Well, I think the world itself is anti Israel.
01:21:48.000And what I mean by that is there are certainly many countries that are pro Israel, many governments that are pro Israel, and Israel certainly lobbies for this.
01:21:54.000But generally speaking, you get 2 billion Muslims, you know, 1.6, 1.7 billion Muslims, Muslim theocratic nations.
01:22:03.000They are going to dump massive resources.
01:22:06.000Christian nations, and I don't mean because there aren't really countries that are overtly Christian theocracies, but they are Christian in terms of a state religion.
01:22:14.000They're not spending money to promote Israel.
01:23:28.000I think the best thing Israel could do for its own PR is probably just disband its PR department and operating solely motivated by, like, this is what I say to all these American companies, right?
01:23:41.000Drop your ESG, drop your DEI, just focus on winning and bringing in profit.
01:24:09.000Look, if you're critical of Israel and you have a knee jerk negative opinion of Israel, there's not a whole lot that Israel is going to be able to do to change that.
01:24:19.000I'll tell you why Israel's in trouble because Gen Z slang for processed garbage food is boy slop.
01:24:37.000A 20 year old dude who walks into a fast food restaurant refers to McDonald's as goy slop, doesn't care about the Jews, isn't an anti Semite.
01:24:44.000He's just saying a phrase that many people online say in reference to processed garbage food.
01:25:28.000But isn't it supposed to also be something that theoretically distracts you?
01:25:32.000Like, it's the catnip they give the goyim so they're not focused on, like, the Jews who are controlling the world or Israel's controlling the world?
01:25:38.000I've heard it used in wider contexts than just, like, Indeed, maybe like Nick Fuentes literally is talking about Jews creating poisoned food to kill them.
01:25:46.000Like he'll talk about spending all their money on Marvel action figures.
01:25:49.000Indeed, my point is there are 20 year olds who are apolitical, who have heard the phrase goislop, think it's funny, and just say it as a meme.
01:26:58.000The reason I bring up Japan is because gaijin and goyim are very similar.
01:27:00.000It literally just means nation in Hebrew, like nation.
01:27:05.000That's the original translation was nations, in which you could refer to Jews as goyim, but it became to specifically mean others, probably because they didn't have a nation.
01:27:16.000No, yeah, like the so at a time when Jews were a nationless people, yeah, it referred to the nations, it was everybody else.
01:27:22.000I feel like, um, Israel's best bet is probably just to keep operating at a high level, and that's I mean, that's a little bit why I feel like the memery maybe doesn't kill them.
01:27:36.000Like, when I see the guys on social media going, like, Benjamin Netanyahu, if you can hear me, like, please move this woman's car in front of me who is not moving in traffic or whatever.
01:27:48.000You know, it's bad for them, probably, that they have become like a perpetual meme.
01:27:53.000But on the other hand, it sort of reminds me of like, what is Marco Rubio's meme?
01:27:57.000Marco Rubio's meme is him sitting in the chair in the office, being like hyper competent and capable of completing.
01:30:45.000He thinks the United States should be the world's gun store, right?
01:30:48.000Just make a bunch of weapons and sell them to people.
01:30:50.000And obviously, there will be limitations.
01:30:52.000We're not going to sell, you know, we're not going to have US companies that are making cutting edge weapons selling them to Russia or to China.
01:30:57.000But, you know, if the UK for now wants to buy weapons, it's okay.
01:31:02.000If Japan wants to buy weapons, it's okay.
01:31:03.000This is one thing, Tim, maybe you can explain this to me.
01:31:05.000Is like, I have been curious when I read about all of our encouraging Europe to stand on its own two feet and, Spend more on their own or build more of their own weapons, that means they're going to be buying less from us, right?
01:31:26.000I think when you look at deficit spending, taxpayer dollars, the way the country works is we don't take tax dollars from people to buy things or build things.
01:31:40.000We do them anyway and then tax people after the fact to pull money out of the economy for inflation.
01:31:45.000So, um, that's something I wish more people what this money represents when the government prints dollars.
01:31:51.000It represents the labor of an individual in exchange for food and shelter for the most part.
01:32:16.000If our resources were spent on building new roads, repairing old decaying infrastructure, as opposed to making weapons and shipping them off to Israel or any other country.
01:32:29.000So, you know, Israel gets the free weapons.
01:32:31.000Members of Congress get factories in their district.
01:32:34.000And I'm just sitting here being like, why not make not weapons then and, like, I don't know, do helicopters?
01:32:41.000Oh, and why not just make a ridiculous amount of airplanes or something?
01:32:46.000And Americans, now your gas is watered down and you have to deal with crappy gas mileage.
01:33:16.000Well, I think there's a very intellectually strong argument for zeroing out foreign aid.
01:33:21.000It's a small portion of the federal budget entirely.
01:33:26.000Overall, I'm for getting rid of foreign aid.
01:33:28.000The only thing that kind of makes me a little hesitant is the idea that when you are giving money away, Like the way that the US does, it makes people, it gives more value to the money.
01:33:40.000So if people have dollars, they want those dollars to be worth something, so they'll spend them and other people will take them because of it.
01:34:22.000Right now, we have a government that is paralyzed and basically saying, let's get Americans to do work to make weapons to give away.
01:34:31.000And it's like, bro, I'd rather you have that American literally just play video games.
01:34:37.000I would rather that money go to some guy in a warehouse live streaming himself playing video games in the most boring way imaginable.
01:34:44.000At least it's producing something for America, even if it's the bare rock bottom of something to be produced.
01:34:49.000And I'm not trying to rag on video game streamers, I'm saying someone who's bad at it.
01:34:53.000I would rather them take that money and literally give it to a bunch of communists to just have a hippie drum circle and sing songs because at least it's going to Americans instead of being like, we're going to produce something of value and give it away.
01:35:09.000But at the same time, I do think there's upside to if you're going to have more populist economic policies on any front, you should probably incentivize building a robust defense industrial base.
01:35:47.000And the way the DGS works is when you turn 16, you can go in, and I'm sorry, but you do have to take a test and go to the shooting range.
01:35:57.000And if you pass, you'll be given an AR 15, a Glock 17, each with one box of ammunition as your right as an American under the Second Amendment.
01:37:24.000How do you feel about some of this stuff people have raised about, like, you know, whether transgender people should have the same, like, Full extent.
01:37:32.000They shouldn't be allowed to have guns.
01:37:51.000The left's going to make the argument that they can 5150 whoever they want and they will.
01:37:55.000And the sooner conservatives realize that people with power will wield it against them, the sooner they will push back.
01:38:00.000What do people in this country really want?
01:38:03.000Good red blooded Americans want Christmas morning, apple pie, baseball, right?
01:38:09.000They want people of sound mind to keep and bear arms.
01:38:13.000They want people who are dangerous not to have them.
01:38:15.000They don't want an overbearing government to be able to seize them.
01:38:19.000The left comes to you and says, if you agree with the idea that someone suffering from an identity disassociation can't have a gun, they will come and accuse you of having a mental disorder.
01:38:29.000And so I've argued this principally in the past.
01:38:32.000If we go for the red flag laws, I oppose them largely.
01:38:36.000Because what will happen is a liberal institutionalized government will just pathologize conservatism.
01:38:43.000Congratulations, if you believe in borders, you're mentally ill.
01:39:03.000And the trans activists actually argue that it should remain because if it's not, they can't get prescription drugs for it.
01:39:09.000So, if you want to get cross sex hormones prescribed, it must be listed as a mental disorder.
01:39:14.000Well, that being said, I think there are some mental disorders which you should be disqualified for.
01:39:20.000Mental disorders with a high rate of suicidality, which we clearly don't want you to have guns, but I do believe it would have to be adjudicated properly.
01:39:29.000That is, a lot of these red flag laws say we can come and take your guns and then you can fight later.
01:39:58.000They present that evidence to a grand jury.
01:40:00.000Here's photo, here's video, here's the body camera footage.
01:40:02.000This man was attempting to end his own life.
01:40:05.000The grand jury then returns an indictment.
01:40:07.000You then present the indictment to the gun owner.
01:40:10.000A grand jury has indicted you on suicidality, and we are now the penalty for which is we take your guns away for a small set period of time.
01:40:18.000Then you get a chance to defend yourself.
01:40:20.000That's how due process should work when it comes to guns.
01:40:22.000Wasn't that one of Trump's bigger missteps with some people?
01:40:24.000Is he's like, take the guns first and then fight it in court?
01:40:28.000I think that was an out of context quote.
01:40:47.000It's a common sense position, though, and it's not that different from the Hassan Piker stuff we were talking about earlier.
01:40:52.000Like, yeah, my position is just that, like, I do think it's like, Okay, if a foreign sovereign nation decides that they don't want foreigners who are going to come into their country and, you know, proverbially piss on the rug or literally just celebrate anti Western terrorism.
01:41:13.000And I do think Tim should be allowed to go to the UK.
01:41:37.000My biggest problem with Piker being, you know, prevented from going to the UK is the people that are going to say that it's because of Israel.
01:41:45.000I mean, if you look at the Labour Party in the UK, right, there are very few groups that are more critical of Israel than the people.
01:41:51.000I mean, I think the UK Home Secretary, who's in charge of these kinds of immigration related decisions, is named like Shahana Mahmood.
01:41:58.000And she is a, like, career Palestine activist who has also banned a bunch of Israeli ministers and.
01:42:05.000The idea that it's actually over Israel is just ridiculous.
01:42:08.000The context explicitly was that Mike Pence was discussing whether law enforcement should confiscate weapons when they have reason to believe an individual is going to use them to commit a crime or to harm themselves or others.
01:42:19.000And Trump said, or Mike, take the firearms first, then go to court because that's another system.
01:42:25.000Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures.
01:43:03.000I think it was specific to a case where there was a guy that the police knew was planning something, and he was saying, go and take the guns.
01:43:22.000If there is a known stated intent to commit a crime using firearms, then I believe the police are perfectly justified to go in, arrest him, terroristic threats, take his guns away.
01:43:32.000By the way, Trump's position there, you know, we're gun nuts here and we're all conservatives here, but I was saying earlier, Trump is this moderating force on the GOP.
01:43:42.000Even in that line, That's how a lot of Americans feel.
01:43:46.000Even if this is generally a pro 2A country, Trump's gut sentiment on things like that is very much attuned to and in line with where most Americans are.
01:43:58.000The founding fathers believed that the federal government couldn't ban guns.
01:44:02.000This meant you were allowed to own artillery.
01:44:05.000Private individuals owned warships, and the U.S. government would retain the services of these private individuals with warships.
01:44:13.000In fact, private companies make our warships today, private companies make our nuclear weapons.
01:44:35.000The U.S. contracts out these projects.
01:44:39.000Nuclear weapons are made by private entities.
01:44:42.000Our warships, our missiles, our bombs, they are publicly traded companies, privately held by the American people, but not by the government.
01:44:52.000So it's funny when I can bring on a senator or a member of Congress and I say, do you think.
01:44:56.000Americans have the right to keep and bear nuclear weapons.
01:45:31.000As far as we know, I don't know that the US government has to ask for nuclear power to be made because there are federal licenses where you can fill out and say, I'm making a nuke and submit it to the government.
01:47:02.000And another thing that Palmer Lucky's doing is he's trying to make sure that the pieces, the parts that are necessary to make the stuff that he's building, Aren't so specialized where you can't find them or they have to be specifically designed for what they're doing.
01:47:18.000He's like, Look at the way that we built tanks and weapons in World War II.
01:47:22.000We had, you know, Ford was pumping out tanks and they were building all these weapons and all this military equipment.
01:47:28.000They were doing it from plants that before were building cars.
01:47:32.000We need to be able to run down to what equates to, I don't know if there are any more computers.
01:47:36.000They need to run down to like Radio Shack and be able to get the parts for whatever they're building.
01:47:41.000I think if I wasn't doing this job, I'd probably be making weapons.
01:47:45.000Back during Occupy, there were two things that I was doing.
01:47:47.000One was live streaming, and the other was hacking drones to do things they were not intended to do.
01:47:53.000Now, we're making weapons, but we hacked the first ever news broadcast via drone, it was done by me and my crew.
01:48:01.000We hacked a commercial toy drone, the Parrot AR, and we used a software development kit to transmit the video feed from the drone to a computer and then retransmit it through the internet to live stream.
01:48:13.000So you could live stream as we like, we live streamed.
01:48:18.000With a laptop in it that was set to run with the monitor closed.
01:48:22.000And I had the drone strapped to my bag so I could grab it off my back, put it on the ground, launch it with my phone, and the stream was live the whole time.
01:48:31.000So we actually flew it during Occupy Wall Street.
01:48:36.000We had one little drone, it was a ball with wheels, and you could throw it like a ball, and it would bounce and always land upright because it had two big wheels.
01:48:43.000And we rigged it to do the same thing.
01:48:45.000So I could definitely be good at making weapons.
01:48:48.000Surveillance tech, and we did a bunch of crazy stuff.
01:48:50.000One of the things, like my buddy did, we were hacking stuff.
01:49:05.000I took a can of green tea and I put motors on it so that it would be weighted in the front and vibrate so it reduces the viscosity, the surface tension, so that the can can literally be remote controlled and glide across flat surfaces.
01:50:35.000Can we take the same effect without causing pain and put it in a glove so that I can grab Phil's arm and his arm immediately just locks and becomes paralyzed?
01:50:46.000And I can't remember, it's just been 16 years, but it was like someone in the chat will know electricity better than me.
01:50:51.000It's like low amps, high volts, or something like that, where it won't electrocute you in the sense where you're like being burned and screaming, but it will trigger a muscle contraction and you won't be able to move your arm.
01:51:03.000So, the idea was imagine you're a cop or in the military, and you have in your hand an electrode that's in the finger and the thumb that you can flick a switch and turn on and grab your culprit, suspect or otherwise.
01:51:17.000It doesn't hurt them, but it disables them.
01:51:20.000And so, we were working on making this, and then the sponsors didn't want to do it.
01:51:27.000And then I was like, can we then, for seemingly no reason, make it so that when you grab a katana, the electrodes connect?
01:51:33.000To a circuit that wraps around the blade, electrify, create a circuit.
01:52:11.000We built a cooling system for mobile hotspots.
01:52:13.000This is one of the most fun things that we did at the space.
01:52:16.000There was a protest in Anaheim and it was super hot.
01:52:19.000And so all of these people would start live streaming.
01:52:21.000They walk around holding their phones up.
01:52:23.000But I would always tell people do not buy a black case for your phone, buy a white case because the black cases absorb the heat from the sun and they're going to overheat really fast.
01:52:32.000But, you know, nobody understands physics.
01:52:50.000We 3D printed a case for the mobile hotspot that was black and didn't have a case, and we snapped it in.
01:52:57.000And then we took an Energizer, big Energizer battery, and we soldered cables to a 40 millimeter computer fan that screwed onto the base.
01:53:07.000So you have a 3D printed case, 40 millimeter fan, hotspot.
01:53:12.000And then we took the wires and soldered connections so that we could plug it into an Energizer battery that powered the fan and kept cold air.
01:53:21.000Air flowing over the hotspot to stop it from overheating.
01:53:24.000So during this protest, tons of streamers' cameras and phones went down from overheating, and we were good.
01:53:29.000So we were doing tons of crazy stuff like that back in the day.
01:53:42.000I actually consulted the U.S. government, specifically warning them about this when I got asked to consult on drones because of the work we were doing.
01:53:54.000It was this government coalition working with a university in, I think, North Carolina.
01:53:58.000And they said, What's one thing that we should be aware of with drone technology that we're not thinking of?
01:54:02.000And I was like, That anybody can strap a C4 payload to one of these bad boys, fly it into a city at 30 miles an hour, and blow up any target before you can do anything about it?
01:54:15.000If somebody strapped a bomb to one of these things, launched it from across Jersey, and flew it full speed into Manhattan, how do you stop it?
01:54:23.000It's 200 feet up, it's going 35 miles an hour, and you don't even know it's coming until it's too late.
01:54:28.000And even if you blast it out of the sky with, say, you had like a confetti gun, one of the things we contemplated was having a drone that could fire a string, literally just thin sewing string, and that would take out a drone and knock it out of the sky.
01:54:43.000And I said, even if you were able to do that, this thing's still carrying a bomb and it's blowing up where it is.
01:54:49.000One of the things we had talked about, which is fascinating because I actually did it, was microwaves.
01:54:54.000So, you blast directed energy weapons, a microwave at a drone, disrupting its communications, and it will fall out of the sky, or just frying its motors, overheating and causing it to crash.
01:55:04.000And then I think it was actually, didn't Andoril create the pulse?
01:56:33.000And then I can't remember who it meant.
01:56:33.000It might have been Tate being like, well, the Iran ceasefire, you know, Trump's talking a deal.
01:56:37.000And I was like, bro, we're on like 15?
01:56:40.000Dude, how many times has there been close to a deal in a yo yo?
01:56:43.000No, even if Trump came out and said we have a deal, I'd be like, nah.
01:56:46.000Well, that was what happened to me last week.
01:56:48.000I did CNN, that Abby Phillips show, and they were like, We're leading with Iran and we're doing the latest ceasefire negotiation.
01:56:57.000I think we've got like a new ceasefire negotiation that's been negotiated since that one.
01:57:01.000And I'm like, Okay, so you guys are all gonna yell at me, and I'm gonna say, We're not gonna know what's gonna happen until the president comments on this because he's got a wrangle like, Nine different countries and his own negotiators, half of whom don't even agree with him about the war to begin with.
01:57:24.000I'm just like, dude, I know that if Trump has a ceasefire, it's going to get canceled a day later.
01:57:31.000Iran, I mean, Iran's not, I don't know what's going on in Iran, obviously, but it doesn't seem like there are people in positions of ultimate authority that are interested in a ceasefire.
01:57:43.000I think this stuff probably calms down ahead of the midterms.
01:57:46.000And then next two years, I just don't think Trump's going to leave the job unfinished.
01:57:53.000Like, I think he's going to, you know, go there and do everything he wanted to do at the outset of this conflict.
01:59:01.000But certainly we're not going to invite just anybody here.
01:59:03.000But if you're a regular at Mamba and you see us there, which is above Casper Coffee, which is about to open soon, then maybe you can come to our games.
01:59:12.000We're also trying to set up a show where we do DD and magic and we play these games and we hang out.
01:59:19.000You know, having a beer, watching a fight, and goofing off and playing magic and all that stuff.
01:59:23.000But it's a great game, although it's gotten really goofy lately because now you can have like Spider Man fight the Ninja Turtles, I guess, and everyone's kind of rolling their eyes over it.
02:01:14.000Desert Army man says a Democrat named Dan Sullivan filed to run for Senate against incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan in Alaska, coincidentally after Mary Peltola had a campaign stop where he lives.
02:01:25.000These people will do anything rather than moderate on policy.
02:01:28.000They will just nominate a dude with the same exact name as the Republican candidate.
02:03:46.000It's like, if you want to just have the, I don't want to rag on old style because it's old style, but it's not like, You know, your prestigious microbe or anything like that.
02:03:55.000You guys get deep dish pizza when you're in Chicago?
02:04:49.000But then I moved to New York City and all of a sudden Detroit style pizza got hot like eight years ago and it was like the new trendy thing popping up all over the place.
02:04:57.000It's like a thicker, fluffy crust, right?
02:04:59.000Yeah, like a thicker crust with like a caramel, like a buttered outside.
02:06:14.000You can follow me at jessyleg on Instagram and X. Guys, if you want to follow me, I am on Instagram and X at Brett Dasivic on both of those platforms.
02:08:13.000I'm not a big fan of watching these rioters go off and do whatever they want, seemingly with impunity, but it seems like they're cracking down.
02:08:20.000Well, there's the story I mentioned to you the other night where it said like the first night they were like bending the knee to the rioters and they're like letting people search cars on the way out of the ice facility.
02:08:29.000I don't remember if that was someone in New Jersey or what it was, but it's hard to believe that.
02:08:34.000The average everyday person can watch that stuff and be okay with it.
02:08:37.000I saw the funniest clip from that facility in New Jersey where a couple of like Hispanic guys who clearly work there as, you know, I don't know, guards or whatever are walking out of the facility.
02:08:51.000And then all of the stupid like socialist aligned, you know, paid agitators, you know, full time nonprofit activists, whoever they are, are screaming like, bien vitos or whatever.
02:09:42.000I mean, she points out these inconsistencies in the left of center coalition all the time.
02:09:46.000It's like these working, the people who are actually blue collar, working class, like the union vote, that's breaking toward Trump and conservatives these days because they can't stand the woke crap, but also like the champagne socialism, you know, the downwardly mobile elites with the trust funds who are out there.
02:10:07.000You know, working for some nonprofit funded by George Soros and protesting seven days a week as if that's their full time job.
02:10:15.000I wonder if the, how much, because you mentioned when you guys were talking earlier about the way things were breaking with like Graham Platner, I was thinking more about Zoran Momdani and the way that he lost a lot of the, you know, the Jewish vote with celebrities who were like, so, you know, they were all champagne socialists until he came around.
02:10:34.000Now they have like an actual socialist.
02:15:28.000It's weird that Gene Grey would be in a Spider Man movie like this.
02:15:30.000I thought she was going to be Black Widow.
02:15:33.000No, they're getting it ready for the multiverse stuff, or for the Doomsday stuff, which tomorrow, the Doomsday, it's rumored that the Doomsday trailer is going to hit tomorrow.
02:16:33.000They made like Lupita, I don't even know how to say her name, Lupita and Yango, like the most beautiful woman in the world.
02:16:38.000Don't care, she probably won't be in it all that much if we're being, but I'm annoyed by the Elliot Page is going to be Achilles because that was made up.
02:17:56.000The official casting was never confirmed, and it's going to be some lost son or something.
02:18:00.000This is why it won't matter, because it likely won't be a huge part of the movie, and normal people who aren't into the culture war won't know or care.
02:19:16.000You know, with the invite to Tommy Robinson's event, which we kind of just ended up not doing, and the Oxford Union thing, which we also just kind of ended up not doing.
02:19:26.000Like, my attitude is I think the moment I apply for an ETA, they're going to reject it.
02:19:32.000So, I don't know how to describe this.
02:19:37.000There was a period where everyone was getting censored, banned, and kicked out of countries.
02:19:41.000And there were some individuals who I won't name who just stopped doing anything for a few months.
02:19:47.000While everybody was getting censored and kicked out of countries.
02:19:50.000And then this person came back a few months later and had no problems whatsoever.
02:19:57.000And then, like, the idea now is if I go to the UK, they'll be like, you're banned for 10 years.
02:20:02.000You wait a year, see how things change, and they might be like, yeah, we don't care.
02:20:05.000Wait, so like they were like a content creator and they stopped making stuff, or they were like a political pundit?
02:20:10.000Like, that's hard for a lot of people in that space, though, because like you can't just take time off most of the time because you're tied to the algorithm and the news cycle a lot.
02:20:31.000If they stop producing, they're gone forever.
02:20:33.000In fact, for some of the bigger creators, disappearing could be the biggest thing of their career because it creates a shocked news cycle.
02:20:38.000And then when they return, they generate a bunch of buzz.
02:20:40.000It's like WWE when somebody returns and the music hits.
02:20:44.000We missed like two weeks because when I was out, because I had severe bronchitis and the channel just got decimated algorithmically because of that.
02:21:02.000See, there, but I mean, you could go on like a Candace Owens style trip to China, like how she's in Russia right now, and they would, you know, if you sell yourself as like, hey, I'm Tim Pool and I'm here to like show how great China is.
02:21:14.000But unfortunately, they're probably aware enough of your content.
02:21:47.000As you know, I've started a history show.
02:21:49.000Would you be willing to do a recorded segment with us where we talk about the history of the Tim Cass company and how, like you said, you were the first person to ever do the online reporting with drones and all that stuff?
02:22:03.000Would you be willing to get this stuff on the record?
02:22:06.000Get, get, like, what's up on the record?
02:22:09.000Like, basically, I just sit down and interview you and say, hey, you know, you were the first to do this, you were the first to do that, and you tell your story.
02:22:33.000You know, one of the things, like, we're trying to do right now, and, um, We've been trying to figure this out for two years, streamlining my schedule so that, like, the most valuable thing we do culturally and just literally business wise is the Discord.
02:22:48.000We were thinking about, like, the Discord for a while, of like, well, of the Timcast membership.
02:23:41.000So, what the challenge for me is, I have no time during the day to do literally anything.
02:23:45.000So, we're making some changes, and it's very difficult because time is finite.
02:23:51.000But hopefully in the future, one of the strategies we had is doing like an, trying to maximize Discord community, trying to build as many people and get as many people involved as possible.
02:24:02.000One of the ideas is like a 2 p.m. hour long Discord exclusive show or doing a stream in the afternoon for a half an hour with a half an hour exclusive on the Discord only.
02:24:13.000So it's like we literally dedicate to just hanging out.
02:24:16.000We've started this obviously with the Discord pre show, the green room, but I'm not there because time is finite.
02:24:22.000So the challenge now, especially with having a kid and wanting to have more, is trying to figure out.
02:24:29.000But we're putting together a DC studio.
02:24:31.000We are, we got, I can't say too much, but we got some big, big stuff in the works, like big television network, massive investment stuff we're trying to get.
02:24:40.000Unrelated to IRL for the most part, we're working on some other shows that I don't want to say too much about just yet, but it'll change the game.
02:26:05.000I also want to give a shout out to Cider Press in Inwood because we bought a bunch of these Rice Krispie treats and they have American flags on it.
02:26:12.000And when you look at the flavor, it just says America.
02:26:42.000So, my question is for the entire panel.
02:26:46.000With taking into consideration Graham, the Nazi, Spencer Rapone, the West Point commie, Tim Walz, the gay commie, do we have a serious problem in our military that we need to address going into this Civil War?
02:27:26.000It was actually pretty heartening to see one of my colleagues at the Manhattan Institute, Stu Smith, who's Stu Studio or something like that on Twitter, post this clip from Shane Gillis' podcast where they were talking about.
02:27:40.000How it's just fucking bad that like all these young people are excited about socialism and it's like, no, read anything about history.
02:27:51.000Like the government is going to seize your private property.
02:27:53.000That is not something you want to happen.
02:27:55.000The argument they make is, well, I don't have any property anyways, which is part of the reason why like the cost of homes.
02:28:01.000It's good to get some people invested in their country.
02:28:04.000The Trump accounts are a good idea, but that's probably 20 years down the road before you actually see the real effects from that.
02:28:13.000Young people, not just kids, but like young people don't aspire to own a home because they think they can't afford it because they can't afford it.
02:28:21.000Like the idea that I want to own something and I want to have a stake in society.
02:28:25.000If you buy a house, your entire view on ownership and property, it all changes, you know?
02:28:32.000And that's something that we need to make sure we need to figure out a way to get young people into ownership of not just property, but also equities.
02:28:44.000A bunch of apps that allow you to do that.
02:28:45.000But you need young people to feel like they have a stake in the society because otherwise they're just like, well, I'm never going to own anything.
02:28:51.000So I don't care if you take stuff from people.
02:28:53.000To me, the stock piece is even more important.
02:28:56.000And not just like picking ponies in the stock market, but like in getting invested in mutual funds.
02:29:01.000So you're invested in literally like the financial success of the United States and its economy is so important because A, it's like low hanging fruit.
02:29:09.000You'll make these people way richer just to put a little money aside to invest in it longer term.
02:29:13.000The problem with the housing stuff is we're just a much more.
02:29:17.000Spread apart country than we used to be.
02:29:19.000I did a focus group in Nashville not too long ago with a bunch of younger right leaning people.
02:29:23.000And so many of them told me that, like, even if they did have the resources available to buy a home, they wouldn't because they, you know, they're in the city now and they want to be in the suburbs soon and the country after that.
02:29:35.000Or they're thinking they might move to a different city, you know, go seek out opportunity.
02:29:40.000So I think the housing was a little bit trickier.
02:29:50.000But it's also like you don't have a wife.
02:29:52.000Like you don't have like a plan to build a family.
02:29:54.000You don't have like stability and confidence in your career and job that like those are all things that are going to metastasize and lead to you.
02:30:01.000Like just not even being in the market to lose.
02:30:46.000Yeah, I think Hagseth is a good, good, at the very least, he's good for morale.
02:30:51.000You've seen the quotas for enlistment, you know, they've reached them early.
02:30:57.000Since Hegseth has been the Secretary of War.
02:31:00.000So I think that the problems that you were seeing are directly related to the fact that the upper brass, it's political up there, and you had to have the correct political opinions to be able to advance to general and above.
02:31:19.000And I think that that's something that the current administration and the current Secretary are addressing.
02:31:25.000Now, I don't know that it's going to fix.
02:31:28.000I think most of our problems are not going to be fixed in the short term.
02:32:42.000So, you guys kind of touched on this earlier, and to me, it seems like politics have been pop culture for the last 15 years, but in the last six months, it seems like everyone's just detaching and moving away from it, either from fatigue or just lack of interest in it.
02:32:58.000So, since politics aren't in vogue as much as they used to anymore, are we going back to like pre Obama politics?
02:33:08.000And is that a good thing where politicians have fewer eyes on them?
02:33:12.000It's going to light back up when the midterms.
02:34:00.000But do you think after 2028, when Trump is pretty much no longer actively involved in politics, just in general, there'll be a drop across the board because he's no longer there for them to play off or exaggerate, or there's no one who quite draws the eye as Trump does in this particular sphere right now?
02:34:24.000I also think Trump is going to remain active in politics until the day he dies.
02:34:28.000He may not be the president anymore, but he's going to be a kingmaker and he's going to be a communicator and he's going to be a boss like he is now.
02:34:41.000I think it's going to move into Washington like the way they said Obama was going to do and just like live there in the background somewhere.
02:35:46.000There were people in the Communist Party that were saying, look, you want to call your opponents Nazis, call them fascists.
02:35:53.000This works, blah, Once the word had got out about what the Nazis did and how terrible they were, the communists were like, well, we beat the Nazis in Europe, so we can just.
02:36:06.000Call our opponents Nazis and do everything we can to shine a light on any similarities between the two.
02:36:13.000And then, if you say it enough, it'll become true to most people.
02:36:17.000So, this style of rhetoric is not going away.
02:36:20.000I agree with you that medium to long term, you know, the Trump coarsening of our discourse may possibly fade, but also that the Democrats will just go after the next guy with the same degree of harshness, whether he is as coarse or not.
02:36:40.000But what I will say is that something we do observe in the data consistently, polling wise, and favorability numbers suggest that Marco Rubio appears to be more palatable to the masses for now.
02:36:53.000They view him as like the least bad option of a very bad set of options.
02:36:59.000I'm talking about, you know, independents who are hostile to the administration and Democrats.
02:37:06.000I think Rubio is in a position where he could really, really.
02:37:11.000Kind of take, take up the mantle that Trump has.
02:37:13.000There's a lot of times where some of the policies that he was talking about you know, 10 years ago I personally wasn't all that into it, but the way that he's been, the way that he's been moving in the administration and this could be just because he is in Trump's administration but I do think that he's, he's smart and he see, he can you know, kind of can see where the you know feels where the wind's blowing and sees that the policies that Trump Uh, has been talking about generally they're very popular with the, with the conservatives, with the right right.
02:37:43.000So you may not like Trump's rhetoric, but The policies that Trump has been talking about, things like deporting people, things like, you know, making sure that we have the alignments with countries that actually do have the same interests as us and distancing ourselves from countries that don't really align with us.
02:37:59.000I think those are things that Rubio is very smart on.
02:38:03.000And I think that if he were to continue it, I think that he could really pick up on a lot of the stuff that Trump has kind of laid the groundwork for.
02:38:08.000Another reason that the discourse around future Republicans may be a little bit more scattered is because.
02:38:16.000Not only did it take as long as it did for Trump to be the demon that he is to them, he had endless name recognition when he started.
02:38:25.000So people could pick his face out of a lineup no matter what right away.
02:38:30.000And I would be willing to bet that unless they're extremely politically active, they can't pick Marco Rubio out of a lineup.
02:38:36.000Well, I think people also underestimate the likelihood that we don't actually have much of a GOP primary for president in 2028.
02:38:44.000And Trump just says, Marco or Rubio, or not Marco or Rubio, but Marco or JD or whoever, or Don Jr.
02:39:30.000A few things, if you guys will allow me.
02:39:32.000Actually, that makes me think that if Trump does take Cuba and people start realizing how bad Castro was, they'll start marking Rubio as Castro because he's Cuban.
02:39:45.000It's like, oh, he's worse than Castro as opposed to Hitler.
02:40:56.000I was re watching old episodes of Dark Angel, which everybody should go and try and find if they ever saw it with Jessica Alba when she was like 18 years old and Michael Weatherly.
02:41:04.000And in one of the episodes, he's wearing a Che Guevara shirt.
02:41:07.000And of course, when I was however old, the show came out in 2000.
02:41:11.000But obviously, as you got older, you're like, oh, of course, some lame ass producer on the show had to put this guy in that shirt because he's fighting the man.
02:42:26.000Am I wrong to think that, again, not to hit anybody on superheroes, but is Batman and Gotham just an example of what happens when liberals don't punish criminals and don't shoot people?
02:42:38.000And is it just like this is like what happens?
02:42:46.000He keeps putting the Joker in Arkham rather than just throwing him off a building.
02:42:50.000They have the Injustice Saga where Superman gets drugged by Joker, murders Lois, and then Joker nukes Metropolis, and then Batman is in the holding with Joker, and Superman busts in, and he says, None of this would have happened if you would just kill him and then rips Joker's heart out.
02:43:12.000But the left would make the argument that it's actually because of rampant.
02:43:16.000Police corruption that criminals are allowed to operate in their cities.
02:43:19.000So it depends on the side of the aisle you are.
02:43:22.000By the way, when, oh my God, I'm drawing a blank on his name.
02:43:26.000Daniel Penny had this situation on the subway in New York City where he was stopping a homeless guy or a crazy mentally ill guy who was threatening to hurt everybody on the train.
02:43:36.000And I watched the police arrest Daniel Penny for protecting the people on that train.
02:43:43.000I was living in Manhattan at the time.
02:45:16.000They take care of the people going over.
02:45:18.000And I think that's part of the reason why you get people that are comfortable crowd surfing because there's so many shows at the Palladium.
02:45:23.000The guys that are down there behind the barricade, they really know what they're doing.
02:45:30.000I've been on stage and seen, you know, There's two guys down there and they're doing their best and they end up dropping people or what have you.
02:45:38.000And it's not like that at the Palladium.
02:47:39.000Of, well, content coming out of Halo Studios.
02:47:42.000You know, they're the master, the remaster of Combat Evolved.
02:47:49.000That's looking like it's going to be late, which Infinity was late and didn't, you know, wasn't released with all the things it was supposed to.
02:47:57.000It was under, under, under par, I guess you could call it.
02:48:02.000So I think the whole video game kind of developer community, like all the studios are having problems, but Bungie, I don't know what they're going to do.
02:48:11.000And it doesn't seem like they know what they're going to do either.
02:48:16.000Reports are being that they are going to, there are going to be mass layoffs.
02:52:56.000So, we're trying to get this DC studio set up.
02:52:58.000The problem is so, you know, we did some pitches where it's like, what if we did a studio just outside of DC?
02:53:04.000And the conclusion is, even then, like, senators aren't going to want to drive even 20 minutes.
02:53:10.000So, if we get a studio literally a block or two blocks from the Capitol, every single senator, Democrat, Republican, or otherwise, they're like, yeah, yeah, well, we definitely stop by, even if it's only for a little while.
02:53:20.000And then the challenge is, How do we drive to DC consistently?
02:53:23.000Even if we find a place like me and my wife, there's no legitimate residences in the DC area that are functional or safe.
02:53:32.000So, one of the challenges is well, we can do it.
02:53:35.000I'm looking at any reasonable accommodation for my family an hour out of DC because we looked at like Bethesda, we looked at Silver Spring, and they're just really low quality, really high, really high cost.
02:53:46.000So, it's like a townhouse with like two bedrooms.
02:53:48.000It's only like an hour and a half out here from here.
02:53:56.000So, you know, reworking how we do the members only and stuff like that might solve the problem.
02:54:03.000So, you know, having like doing the green room early and then us doing the pre show as the members only might, with Collins, might make more sense.
02:54:12.000Cause then once it's sharp to 10, I have an hour drive back.
02:54:15.000I'm home by 11 in bed to wake up for 7 again.
02:54:17.000So, just some of the stuff we're looking at.