Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Democrats Joke They RIGGED SUPER BOWL, Biden REFUSES Brain Test w-Michael Rectenwald | Timcast IRL

00:00:01.000 Everything went according to plan.

00:00:04.000 The Super Bowl, that is.

00:00:05.000 I, myself, made a nice, humble $100 bet on the Chiefs.

00:00:09.000 But I wasn't really betting on the Chiefs.

00:00:10.000 I was betting on the narrative.

00:00:12.000 And the narrative played out perfectly.

00:00:15.000 The 49ers were ahead for the first half.

00:00:17.000 Then the Chiefs slowly start to push ahead, but not quite enough.

00:00:20.000 The 49ers are close to winning.

00:00:22.000 It gets tied game overtime at the very last minute with seconds left.

00:00:26.000 Bang! 1.00

00:00:27.000 Chiefs win and I win $101.

00:00:30.000 How about that?

00:00:31.000 And following that, the Democrats posted a dark Brandon meme saying something like that's exactly like, you know, exactly how they had planned it or whatever, insinuated that they've rigged the Super Bowl.

00:00:43.000 And of course, now a bunch of people have replaced the image of dark Brandon with the the red and the blue line with the blue line jumping up over the red line, indicating that Joe Biden cheated in the 2020 election.

00:00:55.000 It's all good fun, isn't it?

00:00:56.000 But we'll talk about the Super Bowl while we were all enjoying our good sporting event.

00:01:00.000 The Senate was pushing forward a bill to fund the war in Ukraine and Israel.

00:01:04.000 Oh boy.

00:01:05.000 And Israel was bombing Rafa, so there are certainly some serious things going on around the world.

00:01:10.000 But outside of all of that, Kamala Harris says she's ready to serve.

00:01:15.000 As a conversation has erupted, a serious political crisis over Joe Biden's broken brain.

00:01:20.000 Well, they're going to be giving him a fitness test, but he will not take a cognitive test.

00:01:25.000 And we know why. 0.61

00:01:26.000 Because, you know, his brain's broken.

00:01:28.000 So it looks like Kamala may be getting ready to step up, but I gotta be honest, I'm not so sure that we will see a replacement of Joe Biden in the way that we thought.

00:01:37.000 It may be that Democrats have already resigned to him losing, and they're now planning to set traps so that Donald Trump can't do anything if he does win.

00:01:47.000 J.D.

00:01:47.000 Vance points out That in this funding bill for the war in Ukraine, if Trump tries to do anything when he becomes president, they can impeach him.

00:01:59.000 I gotta be honest, it's a bad thing, but kind of a good sign they expect Trump to win.

00:02:03.000 So we'll get into all of that stuff.

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00:03:02.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Dr. Michael Recktenwald.

00:03:07.000 Hello, Tim.

00:03:07.000 How are you doing?

00:03:08.000 I'm good.

00:03:08.000 Who are you?

00:03:09.000 I am Michael Rechtenwald.

00:03:11.000 I am the former NYU professor.

00:03:14.000 Cancelled by the left.

00:03:16.000 Cancelled by the right.

00:03:17.000 I'm the Javier Millet of the USA.

00:03:21.000 So, afuera.

00:03:22.000 I did see you tweeted, I think Elon Musk said, Javier Mele, we need all of these things in the United States.

00:03:28.000 Was that you who tweeted, that's what I want to do?

00:03:30.000 Well, yeah, I think that's what one of my followers tweeted that.

00:03:34.000 Yeah, that's what I will do.

00:03:36.000 Just start cutting off all the government agencies, shutting them down.

00:03:40.000 Yeah, I mean, his metaphor was the chainsaw.

00:03:42.000 Mine's the wrecking ball.

00:03:44.000 The wrecking ball!

00:03:45.000 All right.

00:03:45.000 Should be fun.

00:03:46.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:03:47.000 We got Hannah-Claire hanging out.

00:03:48.000 Hey, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.

00:03:49.000 I'm a writer for scnr.com.

00:03:50.000 That's Scanner News.

00:03:51.000 I'm really happy to be here with you tonight.

00:03:53.000 Phil's here, too.

00:03:54.000 Hello, everybody.

00:03:55.000 My name is Phil LaBonte.

00:03:56.000 I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains.

00:04:00.000 Anti-communist, counter-revolutionary.

00:04:01.000 We're here with Serge.

00:04:02.000 How you doing, homie? 1.00

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00:04:05.000 I'm ready when you are, Tim.

00:04:06.000 Here we go!

00:04:07.000 Deadline!

00:04:08.000 Just like we drew it up, Joe Biden's dark Brandon reacts to Chiefs Super Bowl win.

00:04:14.000 All right, so everybody probably knows already what happened yesterday with the Super Bowl.

00:04:19.000 Well, following the Chiefs victory, the Democrats are acting like they rigged it because there is a

00:04:24.000 conspiracy theory that the NFL is rigged or scripted and that Kelsey had to, or I should say the Chiefs

00:04:31.000 had to win because Kelsey's relationship with Taylor Swift and that after they win the Super Bowl 1.00

00:04:35.000 there's going to be some coming endorsement from the lovely couple and and all that jazz. I

00:04:40.000 think it was mostly a PR stunt between Kelsey and Taylor Swift. 0.91

00:04:45.000 I don't think their relationship is real.

00:04:46.000 However, we counted, and I think we saw Taylor Swift during the game 12 times.

00:04:53.000 They showed her.

00:04:54.000 So that's more than basically anybody else.

00:04:57.000 I think it's all PR.

00:04:58.000 I don't think that there's a grand conspiracy to have Taylor Swift endorse Joe Biden, but one thing I am seeing now following all of this is that politicians have started identifying themselves as Swifties, and the news has started reporting that Trump quote-unquote slams Taylor Swift, when he didn't, because Trump issued a statement that, you know, Taylor couldn't endorse Joe Biden because I signed the Music Modernization Act or whatever, which helped her.

00:05:21.000 I think the play now is they're actually making it look like Trump is against Taylor Swift because they're trying to rile up her fans against Trump.

00:05:30.000 And, you know, it's really frustrating that there are people on the right who don't care that there is no political upside to the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, PSYOP narrative.

00:05:42.000 They just keep running with it and getting as many views as possible.

00:05:45.000 And the media is laughing all the way to the bank as they try and politicize Taylor Swift's fan base.

00:05:50.000 Which is crazy because she's going to save our birthright.

00:05:53.000 I mean, Taylor Swift ushering in a new era of making marriage cool again, making commitment and families great.

00:05:58.000 She went to the Super Bowl with Blake Lively, who's married to Ryan Reynolds and has like four kids.

00:06:03.000 I think I think there is really a missed opportunity to seize this for what it is, which is that women actually like to settle down and she's trying to seize the opportunity. 1.00

00:06:12.000 But I actually didn't watch the Super Bowl at all.

00:06:13.000 So I didn't say I was super dedicated to it.

00:06:16.000 I didn't watch the game either, but the whole thing of like jumping onto this as a rage bait thing, there's some, you know, people out there that are just doing it because it's content.

00:06:29.000 I think that that's a terrible, terrible thing, but just because it's bad for America.

00:06:34.000 And that's not love.

00:06:35.000 People should believe in young love.

00:06:37.000 Look, I'm very, very adamant about the fact that the goal in the culture war is not to defeat people that disagree with you.

00:06:46.000 It's to convince them to come to your side.

00:06:49.000 When you make a fight about everything, especially about the most popular entertainer in America, arguably in the world, when you make a fight, pick a fight with them over literally nothing, Just so that way you can get some likes, you're hurting whatever you say your cause is.

00:07:07.000 I just want to take a look at this picture of Joe Biden with glowing red eyes, because it's become like... You know, when people make pictures of Donald Trump all ripped, some people do it seriously, but for the most part, when you see that flag where Trump is riding a tank with a velociraptor and a machine gun, we know it's meant to be silly and a gag.

00:07:27.000 Okay.

00:07:27.000 And, you know, it's kind of like, okay, we get it.

00:07:29.000 We get it.

00:07:29.000 It's funny.

00:07:30.000 But having somebody who can barely speak, did you see the latest video from him?

00:07:36.000 It's crazy.

00:07:37.000 He's like, I don't want to run a list, you know, no time.

00:07:40.000 And I'm like, Did he just say something about not running through a list or something like that?

00:07:45.000 Truly anyone can become president in America.

00:07:47.000 That's true.

00:07:48.000 If Joe Biden can at this level.

00:07:49.000 So when they make this picture of him and they try and do this meme, it's just, it's like, you know, it's a poodle dressed like Superman.

00:07:58.000 You know what I mean?

00:07:59.000 And his campaign got on TikTok today to court younger voters.

00:08:03.000 It's so great.

00:08:04.000 And they posted this too.

00:08:05.000 It's awful.

00:08:05.000 That was yesterday though.

00:08:06.000 They were like, who do you think's going to win?

00:08:08.000 He's like, if I told you, I'd get in trouble.

00:08:10.000 Biden, if you talk to the press, you get in trouble.

00:08:12.000 And I'm wondering who you get in trouble with.

00:08:14.000 Barack?

00:08:15.000 Jill?

00:08:16.000 She's the real president.

00:08:17.000 The whole, I wonder who you get in trouble with, it actually does kind of matter.

00:08:21.000 I like to think that the president is actually, can be held accountable.

00:08:25.000 That's one of the bad things about having like the bureaucracy, a nameless bureaucracy doing things.

00:08:29.000 You don't know where to lay the blame.

00:08:31.000 You can't hold anyone accountable.

00:08:32.000 You can never fire people.

00:08:34.000 So nothing ever changes.

00:08:35.000 Things only continue to go bad or continue down whatever path they are.

00:08:41.000 Are you a big Taylor Swift fan?

00:08:42.000 Are you Swifty?

00:08:42.000 I'm not a Swifty.

00:08:43.000 I do not want to talk about Taylor Swift.

00:08:45.000 Anyway, back to Joe Biden and the memes.

00:08:47.000 I was just going to ask him what his perspective is on, like, the internet and the way they kind of circle around these pop culture icons, whether it's the dark Brandon Meen or Taylor Swift.

00:08:55.000 Well, you know, I mean, the theory is they're trying to use Swift to garner votes for Biden.

00:09:00.000 Also Swift and Kelsey to sell the vaccines.

00:09:07.000 I don't think, I don't buy it.

00:09:08.000 Yeah, it's a PR marketing stunt.

00:09:11.000 It's funny because when people say it's a PSYOP, I'm like, well, yeah, in the same sense that a commercial for Coke is a PSYOP.

00:09:20.000 A company is trying to advertise a product.

00:09:21.000 The NFL is trying to advertise the NFL to a younger audience who they're losing.

00:09:26.000 Taylor Swift got a whole bunch of Gen Z and young women to watch the Super Bowl. 1.00

00:09:30.000 They were trying to make some... And so what's fascinating to me is the PSYOP narrative Actually just accomplished everything they could have hoped for.

00:09:40.000 All of a sudden, everyone who normally doesn't care about quote-unquote sports ball, they call it, because they like to mock it, are now watching it.

00:09:49.000 And there's media all over the board.

00:09:51.000 And then to top it off, you've got the corporate press saying Donald Trump slams Taylor Swift.

00:09:57.000 You know what, man?

00:09:59.000 Whatever dude at this point, you know, like people are chatting with here's one from Victor He says was Travis Kelsey manhandling an old man on TV part of the psyop.

00:10:08.000 I Hear I want to say this.

00:10:09.000 I'm you guys ready? 0.99

00:10:12.000 I Don't care that Travis Kelsey yelled at a guy I don't understand why there are people who are like, sports ball is so dumb. 0.77

00:10:19.000 Did you see Travis Kelsey yell at a guy? 0.96

00:10:21.000 I'm like, I don't get it.

00:10:23.000 I really don't.

00:10:24.000 And so that's why I chest bumped him.

00:10:26.000 He did chest bump him.

00:10:27.000 I know he's not.

00:10:27.000 I don't think he's a good dude.

00:10:28.000 I mean, whatever.

00:10:29.000 That was a nasty thing to do.

00:10:30.000 But I'm kind of like, why do people who don't follow sports?

00:10:33.000 Why are they so into this?

00:10:34.000 No, it's not.

00:10:35.000 I think it's not that interesting.

00:10:36.000 I've seen that clip so many times today, and it's sort of like, okay, yeah, bad moment for every Super Bowl there is, and probably there are other weird moments at the Super Bowl you could have pulled instead of everyone sort of dogpiling on the same one.

00:10:48.000 I don't know.

00:10:49.000 I'm proud to say, though, that I was two for three in my psychic predictions over what was going to happen at the Super Bowl.

00:10:55.000 So when we had the party and we were talking about it, I'm like, look, I bet $100 on the Chiefs to win.

00:11:01.000 And I won a hundred, and I think I won a hundred and one dollars, something like that.

00:11:04.000 Because it was like, they weren't the favorites, I don't know.

00:11:06.000 But I was like, it's really obvious what's gonna happen.

00:11:08.000 At the start of the game, the 49ers are up, and I'm like, well of course.

00:11:11.000 It has to be this way.

00:11:12.000 It has to be that, like, oh no!

00:11:14.000 And I'm like, and they're gonna show Taylor Swift, and she's gonna be like, biting her nail, and going like, oh jeez, and they did it!

00:11:20.000 Called that one.

00:11:22.000 So it's gotta be that they come up from behind, it's gotta be at the last minute they score the touchdown to win, and Travis Kelsey is gonna be the guy to do it.

00:11:30.000 That didn't happen.

00:11:32.000 So I'm only 2 for 3.

00:11:33.000 Although I did, you could maybe add like a 2.5 because I said that Taylor Swift would look all panicked. 1.00

00:11:38.000 But the second to last play, they did throw it to Kelsey, Kelsey almost got it in, but I think it was Hardman, I don't know.

00:11:44.000 I don't know a lot about football, all I know is that they ended up winning.

00:11:47.000 And now the expectation is there's going to be some kind of endorsement, and I believe what is likely going to happen, the strong possibility, they're going to invite the Chiefs to the White House after winning the Super Bowl.

00:12:02.000 I'm willing to bet Taylor Swift is there.

00:12:04.000 I think she'll probably go with Kelsey and that will be their PR opportunity and press event. 0.73

00:12:09.000 That being said, the only way any political poll comes out of that is if Trump supporters attack Kelsey and Taylor Swift, which they're doing with zealous fervor.

00:12:20.000 And they'd have to plan that visit.

00:12:23.000 Again, I'm not the most avid sports fan here, but I don't know how quickly that invitation gets extended because she's on tour for the rest of the year.

00:12:29.000 Maybe she doesn't come around.

00:12:30.000 They'd have to plan around Taylor Swift.

00:12:31.000 What I really didn't want to happen was for her to perform at the Democratic National Convention in the summer, but luckily she's in Europe then, because I just thought that would be so annoying.

00:12:40.000 I don't think she's going to get super political. 0.95

00:12:41.000 I don't think she's going to endorse this year.

00:12:43.000 I really don't.

00:12:44.000 The only way is by them using her.

00:12:46.000 They're using her as a polarization, so they're managing to get, if all the Trump people attack her, then this makes her a magnet for the other side.

00:12:55.000 They're waving a red flag at the right, yelling Toro Toro, and the right's like, I'm gonna do exactly what Democrats want me to do, and make a big political issue with a pop star for no reason.

00:13:07.000 And it's just like, oh geez.

00:13:09.000 I felt like she only got involved in politics was when all of the stuff went around the internet where it was like, she's secretly super conservative and she's whatever. 1.00

00:13:16.000 So it was a big show of coming out being like, no, no, I support the right guy.

00:13:20.000 Like she released that one song where it was like way late to the like, you know, gay rights and gay marriage initiative.

00:13:26.000 It's okay to be gay.

00:13:27.000 It just like, it made no sense.

00:13:28.000 And I think now there's no point.

00:13:30.000 She's making a ton of money this year. 1.00

00:13:31.000 She's in the headlines.

00:13:32.000 She doesn't need to come out of any sort of political closet. 1.00

00:13:35.000 She's already come out enough.

00:13:37.000 It would be pointless.

00:13:38.000 I'll say this as we're wrapping up the opening segment.

00:13:41.000 I would not be surprised.

00:13:43.000 I'll just say this.

00:13:44.000 In my opinion, I lean towards the NFL's rate.

00:13:47.000 Rigged in some way and the reason I feel that way is it's not the same people are saying it's like WWE and I know I don't think that I think it's more so that the refs can just push the direction they want and they they can have a tendency towards what they want to happen but it's not as easy as making it a script you can't You can't guarantee dude catches the ball.

00:14:11.000 Yeah.

00:14:12.000 Because, you know, so that being said, they can strongly influence the outcome.

00:14:17.000 The coaches can tell people what to do.

00:14:18.000 They can do it or not do it.

00:14:20.000 And they can get pretty close to what they want to happen.

00:14:23.000 So, you know, out here in the West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia Tri-State, all Ravens fans out here.

00:14:29.000 Of course.

00:14:30.000 And the only thing I hear from all of them was that it was rigged. 1.00

00:14:33.000 Because they were like, how did the Ravens play so well all year, and then all of a sudden against the Chiefs, they just were like, fumbling morons. 0.99

00:14:41.000 And so they all think it's scripted, it's rigged or whatever. 0.99

00:14:44.000 Look at the Ravens' history against the Patriots.

00:14:47.000 It is not rigged.

00:14:48.000 Or at least not, at least not, not... But this year you're talking about?

00:14:51.000 Maybe, no, no, I'm talking about just historically the Ravens against the Patriots. 0.98

00:14:53.000 So, what I'm saying is, this, people who are in the air, who live out here, They were like, we saw some of the best play the Ravens ever had this year, but all of a sudden when it comes to the Chiefs, they were bumbling morons who couldn't figure anything out and lost. 0.89

00:15:06.000 And there's even that viral video, I don't know which team it was, 0.76

00:15:10.000 I think it's the Chiefs from October, where one player is running towards,

00:15:17.000 all I know is the player got the ball, one player runs and then turns left

00:15:21.000 and tackles the guy without the ball.

00:15:23.000 And it became a huge scandal because they were like, what the just happened?

00:15:28.000 And a bunch of people are like, I'm a big football fan and I know exactly what this means.

00:15:31.000 But even news outlets and sports outlets and commentators were like, why did he just not tackle the guy with the ball?

00:15:36.000 I think it was, who was it who had the ball?

00:15:39.000 Was it Mahomes?

00:15:40.000 I don't know, but a lot of people listening, they probably saw the story because this clip goes viral.

00:15:43.000 And then yesterday there was another clip that went viral where the TV wrongly said it was the first down when it was the second.

00:15:52.000 But that's not a conspiracy, that's a bad graphic.

00:15:54.000 That was the other way around.

00:15:55.000 They said it was second and three and it was first and five.

00:15:58.000 No, no, no.

00:15:59.000 Specifically, there was one play where it was second and one, but the TV said first and ten, and everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:16:06.000 Yeah.

00:16:06.000 That's a missed call.

00:16:07.000 No, the TV got it wrong.

00:16:08.000 If you look at the ESPN play-by-play, everything was done properly.

00:16:11.000 All the calls were right.

00:16:12.000 So I kind of lean towards it was rigged.

00:16:15.000 Not that Joe Biden had anything to do with it.

00:16:16.000 But are they all rigged is the question.

00:16:19.000 Is every Super Bowl ultimately rigged?

00:16:21.000 I don't think so.

00:16:24.000 I was reading something that said since around like Super Bowl 32 or whatever, it used to be that games were relatively decisive, like one team played really well and just won, and now it's always a nail-biter.

00:16:34.000 It's always a back and forth.

00:16:36.000 Set it for ratings that way.

00:16:38.000 As you see, it's more entertaining.

00:16:40.000 And, uh, the other thing, too, is people point out that the NFL is a sports entertainment company, not a sporting company.

00:16:45.000 And it's because of the way they do, uh, they say it's because of the way they handle pay.

00:16:49.000 That they're all, like, one company and they share pay or something like that.

00:16:52.000 I don't know.

00:16:53.000 But I'm done with football.

00:16:54.000 Because while the football was going on, your, uh, members of the Senate were, uh, sharpening their blades to place firmly in your back.

00:17:02.000 CNBC reports Senate moves forward with Israel-Ukraine funding after vote on Super Bowl Sunday.

00:17:09.000 This was the real purpose of... I'll put it this way.

00:17:09.000 You see?

00:17:15.000 The PSYOP, if there is one in my opinion, was to create a conspiracy theory of a PSYOP so that all of these Trump supporters would be posting photos of Travis Kelsey and videos of it, like they're doing all yesterday, and not paying attention to the fact the Senate voted to move forward with funding for Israel and Ukraine.

00:17:34.000 However, Rand Paul is in a filibuster right now to try and block it, but Here we go.

00:17:40.000 $60 billion to Ukraine.

00:17:43.000 $15 million to Israel.

00:17:45.000 And some to Taiwan as well.

00:17:48.000 And nothing to the border.

00:17:48.000 And some to Taiwan as well.

00:17:49.000 Right.

00:17:50.000 Because why?

00:17:51.000 Why would we do that?

00:17:52.000 Well, because when people realized the border deal was actually an amnesty bill, they were like, okay, just get rid of that and just go straight for the dump American money into a foreign country.

00:18:00.000 So they also buried an impeachment clause in this bill, that if the president doesn't follow through with his funding, he's impeached.

00:18:08.000 Or they can impeach him.

00:18:09.000 They can impeach him, yeah.

00:18:11.000 I mean, I feel like that's kind of good news, in a way.

00:18:14.000 You know, it's bad news, they're playing these dirty games, but it's kind of indicative of, they fear Donald Trump is going to win.

00:18:20.000 Yeah, I think it is.

00:18:21.000 Because why else would you have to bury that clause there if you thought Joe Biden was going to be there?

00:18:24.000 Yeah, you need this this stick to stick rather or measure at the very least, they are scared that Donald Trump is going to win, not that he's guaranteed to win.

00:18:35.000 Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure they are.

00:18:37.000 I think because of the polls and because of Biden, it's completely reasonable to be worried about whether or not he can actually bring it back over the goal line.

00:18:46.000 But when it comes to this piece of legislation or the part in the piece of legislation, They're just looking for any way that they can get Donald Trump, so if they can set it up, whereas there's some kind of, you know, he gets in and something happens, and they can come up with a way to justify impeaching him, they will use forever the

00:19:12.000 Like, the Rubicon has been crossed forever now.

00:19:15.000 Impeachment is a new political tool that's going to be used every chance that whatever side gets, this is the new normal.

00:19:24.000 Politics in the US is not going to get better.

00:19:27.000 I don't think it's the new normal.

00:19:30.000 You know, why?

00:19:31.000 Because I don't think there will be a system in place long enough for it to be normal at all.

00:19:35.000 That would be, that would be... It's just the current trend right now.

00:19:38.000 No, it's just, I mean, like, it'll happen one time and then something worse happens next time.

00:19:42.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:19:43.000 Other catastrophes come along, change the whole narrative, shift the ground under your feet.

00:19:48.000 That's what's been happening.

00:19:48.000 Yeah, but I agree with your sentiment.

00:19:50.000 It's just the idea that it's a new normal would imply that we will persist in this state for more than one election cycle.

00:19:57.000 How fast things degrade does matter, yes.

00:19:58.000 Yeah, so I feel like in the sense that they are going to use impeachment as a tool, the answer is yes, but it will cause such crisis within our political system, the system likely will implode on itself well before it could happen again.

00:20:13.000 That could very well happen.

00:20:15.000 Do you have any predictions about the next year, going into 2024?

00:20:19.000 To the election and all that?

00:20:20.000 Well, I'm going to win the LP nomination.

00:20:24.000 And then a landslide victory, 49 states for the Libertarian Party.

00:20:26.000 That's right.

00:20:29.000 But no, I mean, look, I'm running against these people, so I'm running to be a messenger who shifts the Overton window, if possible at this late date, towards liberty.

00:20:43.000 And away from this authoritarian layer upon layer of the state.

00:20:48.000 Kennedy, even, you know, Kennedy's supposed to be this, you know, dissident, but he's all about adding more bureaucratic layers to the state.

00:20:56.000 It's unbelievable.

00:20:57.000 I have a conspiracy theory for you guys.

00:20:59.000 RFK Jr.

00:21:00.000 is actually working for the deep state to suppress the Libertarian Party vote.

00:21:05.000 Yeah, I think that's actually fair.

00:21:07.000 I always thought he pulled from running a Democrat campaign under threat from the DNC, basically saying, you have to run as an independent this year, maybe we'll consider you in the future.

00:21:16.000 He's pulling from Democrats, but when the polls include Biden, Trump, or anyone else, anyone else actually scores double digits, which means that if RFK Jr.

00:21:26.000 was not running, the Libertarian Party might actually crack double digits.

00:21:31.000 And he's coming to our convention in California where I'll be debating him.

00:21:36.000 Really?

00:21:37.000 When is that happening?

00:21:39.000 On February 24th.

00:21:42.000 I am the final defense against RFK trying to take over the Libertarian Party for this election.

00:21:50.000 I can't imagine!

00:21:52.000 I can't imagine the Libertarians accepting that.

00:21:56.000 Well, no, no, no, I agree with that, but there are a lot of people in the Mises caucus who want RFK Jr.

00:22:01.000 to take the LP ticket.

00:22:03.000 Well, there's a little bit of prevarication that went on about that topic, if I must.

00:22:10.000 The LP, the Mises Caucus, the official Mises Caucus, does not support R.F.K.

00:22:16.000 Jr.

00:22:17.000 at all.

00:22:17.000 They have endorsed me.

00:22:21.000 They've also endorsed the vice presidential candidate, too.

00:22:27.000 And I'll come up with his name in a second.

00:22:29.000 He's a good friend of mine.

00:22:31.000 Anyway, Clint, Clint Russell.

00:22:34.000 So they endorsed Clint Russell as a VP candidate.

00:22:37.000 They endorsed me as a presidential candidate.

00:22:38.000 They've written extensively how they don't support RFK Jr.

00:22:42.000 He is anathema to libertarianism.

00:22:45.000 He's not good on anything.

00:22:46.000 Nothing.

00:22:47.000 Except COVID and Ukraine. 0.95

00:22:49.000 That's it.

00:22:53.000 He's good on COVID and vaccines in that he doesn't want to have the government force you to take vaccines, but that's the end of it.

00:23:02.000 That's it.

00:23:02.000 And also, if that's the only... Well, he tweeted about the border.

00:23:07.000 That's true.

00:23:08.000 What he wants to do is put, he wants to, you know, he's all about regulation, right?

00:23:13.000 So he wants to change, you know, to enforce regulations and to get the corporations, he called these big corporations or the big enemy, get them out of everything, never looking at the other side of the issue, which is the state.

00:23:27.000 That's who's the problem is.

00:23:28.000 Especially when you're dealing with the border.

00:23:29.000 Yes.

00:23:30.000 Clearly it's the state.

00:23:31.000 Right.

00:23:32.000 This open borders policy is a federal policy.

00:23:36.000 And I go up against other libertarians on this because I don't think that this open borders policy is libertarian at all.

00:23:46.000 I think framing is important.

00:23:47.000 Yes.

00:23:48.000 And I wouldn't call it federal policy.

00:23:51.000 I would call it rogue state policy.

00:23:55.000 The federal government has constitutional restrictions, and one of those is that the federal government has to do certain things like defend states from invasion.

00:24:02.000 Technically, yeah.

00:24:04.000 Having Customs and Border Protection commit crimes against humanity on the southern border is not indicative of the federal government.

00:24:11.000 Here's what I'm trying to draw a distinction on.

00:24:13.000 We should not accept criminal actions from federal agents as what the government does.

00:24:19.000 We should say that those are criminal elements who are wearing badges, committing crimes, and my fear with the normalization of it is...

00:24:29.000 If a criminal, it's like a squatter being in a house, and then you call him a resident.

00:24:33.000 No, no, no, keep calling them squatters.

00:24:35.000 Don't call them residents.

00:24:36.000 I'm not talking about the actual government's official policy now.

00:24:40.000 I'm talking about what libertarians, some libertarians want, open borders.

00:24:44.000 Period.

00:24:45.000 And I would say that would become then a federal government Well, it's a violation of the Constitution to have open borders.

00:24:54.000 So the Libertarians can say all they want.

00:24:54.000 It is.

00:24:56.000 Not all of them, right.

00:24:57.000 But this is one of the things the Libertarian Party has fractured over.

00:25:00.000 I mean, this was hotly debated for a long time, and ultimately I don't think anyone who thinks of themselves as a Libertarian today really accepts that you could maintain Libertarian values and also have an open border.

00:25:11.000 No, no, no.

00:25:11.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:25:12.000 There are leftists in the Libertarian Party that strongly Like I said, it's already a fractured issue, but I don't think that the Mises caucus, most of them don't.

00:25:25.000 What they do, this is actually the default libertarian position.

00:25:30.000 They equate the movement of goods, capital, with the movement of people.

00:25:35.000 And they say they're the same, so if goods are free to cross borders, then people should be without restrictions.

00:25:41.000 But there's a difference between people and goods.

00:25:45.000 People have will.

00:25:46.000 They can do it without being asked to come.

00:25:48.000 People have motivations.

00:25:51.000 If goods are purchased, they have been invited into the country.

00:25:54.000 That's different than people just on their own volition entering the country.

00:26:00.000 Yeah, open borders basically means you don't have a country at all, and the Constitution requires defense from invasion.

00:26:05.000 So, anyway, what I was trying to say is, we accept the squatters and the corrupt and the criminals, and we act like they are the authority, and if we just said, nah, you're not, we don't agree with you, we don't take orders from you, things would be very, very different.

00:26:21.000 Unfortunately, I guess we have a lot, maybe it's too many people?

00:26:26.000 So, uh, social order breaks down when a civilization gets too large.

00:26:29.000 You know, the question I have is, why does a CBP agent think it is okay to work with cartel members?

00:26:35.000 Because his boss told him to.

00:26:36.000 Yeah.

00:26:37.000 If we were in a small community and, uh, you know, the sheriff, like, let's say a hundred people.

00:26:43.000 Right.

00:26:44.000 And the guy said, hey, go, go handle those smugglers. 0.99

00:26:46.000 And you're like, are you nuts? 0.97

00:26:47.000 Like, I can't do that. 0.97

00:26:49.000 Everyone's gonna find out what I did.

00:26:51.000 But when it's a massive system and the CBP agents don't know and don't care, they don't know you, they don't care about you, their boss said do it, they're gonna do it because when they go to the bar to buy a beer, the bartender's like, don't know you, don't care, here's a beer.

00:27:01.000 And so the social order breaks down when we separate from our communities.

00:27:04.000 That's why I'm for decentralization and localization and getting power away from the federal government as much as

00:27:09.000 possible vesting it in the people locally and

00:27:12.000 resisting the federal government's incursions against

00:27:18.000 against the local people. Do you feel like the libertarian message that

00:27:24.000 the message in particular, do you think that message resonates nowadays when

00:27:29.000 people's ability to connect over the internet Has become so is so vast and so so fast because I feel like the reason that we don't have more libertarians in positions in the federal government and in other governments is because there's not really the American people say

00:27:49.000 A whole lot about wanting to have liberty, but what they really want is safety.

00:27:53.000 And I think that the majority of people want safety, and I think that's driven mostly by the culture of safety that people have in the U.S.

00:28:02.000 today, in the West.

00:28:03.000 Do you think that there is a market for libertarian ideas anymore?

00:28:07.000 There is a market for libertarian ideas, but I think they have to be framed properly, as Tim put it.

00:28:12.000 And in the case of decentralization, I have noticed that people look at me like, what are you talking about?

00:28:18.000 Because it puts the onus on them, rather than some white knight riding into DC, claiming to be able to fix everything.

00:28:26.000 It puts the onus on people themselves to do something on the local level.

00:28:32.000 To run for office, to take control of the local level, and then to resist the central government as much as possible.

00:28:39.000 And that's how this country was founded.

00:28:41.000 It was founded under subsidiariness.

00:28:47.000 Actually, it's the doctrine of the lesser magistrates.

00:28:50.000 That is, the local power is really preeminent.

00:28:53.000 Yeah.

00:28:54.000 I do feel obligated to point out, this is off topic, but RFK did share some of Alad's video, some scanner news footage, so he's obviously a huge fan of our news site.

00:29:06.000 Very good.

00:29:06.000 Maybe he'll make an appearance on the podcast.

00:29:08.000 Let's talk to him.

00:29:08.000 Let's show me the story from Politico.

00:29:11.000 J.D.

00:29:12.000 Vance's foreign aid bill could get Trump impeached.

00:29:15.000 The Ohio GOP senator's office argues that the legislation could tie Trump's hands if he tries to pause Ukraine funds should he win the presidency again.

00:29:24.000 Vance distributed a memo to Senate GOP offices on Monday, arguing that the foreign aid measure could tie Trump's hands if he comes into office next year wanting to pause Ukraine funds as part of negotiations on ending Russia's war on the U.S.

00:29:35.000 ally.

00:29:36.000 That's because some of the legislation's funding expires nine months into the next presidency, effectively, according to Vance, handcuffing a future President Trump from making his own decisions on Ukraine spending.

00:29:45.000 Now, this is the important thing.

00:29:47.000 The likelihood that, the first thing that we mentioned previously, but we'll say it again just for the sake of this segment, this is a political time bomb for Donald Trump, or a pit trap.

00:29:57.000 They fear, Democrats fear, that if he wins, he will try to shut down the war in Ukraine and bring peace.

00:30:03.000 And so, not only do they want to find ways to remove him, they want to tie his hands together if he does win so that he can't make any changes.

00:30:10.000 The terrifying thing about this, it's quite literally, Donald Trump will get elected, I'm saying in the event Trump gets elected, which I believe is a strong probability, but we'll see, he absolutely will seek to negotiate with Russia to stop the war, bring peace, stabilize the region.

00:30:28.000 And that means that if Russia says to Trump, OK, As a sign of good faith, as we begin the ceasefire, funding must stop.

00:30:35.000 And Trump will go, I can't do that, they'll impeach me.

00:30:38.000 Think about what that does to undermine the President's position before he's even spoken a word.

00:30:43.000 This means, upon entering office, Vladimir Putin will say to Trump, you do not have the authority to negotiate as the President of the United States to bring peace, because I saw the bill they passed, it was in your news, and they will impeach you and remove you from power if you try.

00:30:58.000 Talk about evil, these people.

00:31:01.000 Yeah.

00:31:03.000 You know, I think Trump's equivocated now recently about Ukraine, whether he would continue funding them.

00:31:08.000 And so it's not clear that he is actually the target here, necessarily.

00:31:14.000 But definitely they want to make... Maybe RFK Jr.

00:31:16.000 wins and they don't want him to do it?

00:31:19.000 Maybe.

00:31:19.000 I mean, maybe that's in their cards, yeah.

00:31:22.000 What if RFK Jr.

00:31:23.000 does win?

00:31:25.000 I mean, some polls got him at like 17%.

00:31:27.000 Oh no, he's higher than that.

00:31:29.000 They're saying 33.

00:31:29.000 Where?

00:31:32.000 What polls got him at 33?

00:31:34.000 Here we go again.

00:31:34.000 I don't know exactly which polls, but... He was saying for a while that he was polling in the 20s and he was gaining 1% every week, so he was on track to get the necessarily Necessary just over a third of the vote to beat out Biden and Trump.

00:31:49.000 I don't know how accurate it is, but I think third-party kinesthetes are really interesting because of this.

00:31:55.000 It shifts it from being this fight for just over 50% to being this much lower margins, which other countries that have multiple political parties are used to in a way that America is not.

00:32:05.000 Yeah, that's the good thing about this.

00:32:08.000 Typically, we've got this one poll from Suffolk that has Biden up 20 points. 1.00

00:32:13.000 That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 0.99

00:32:14.000 They just asked everybody in the White House briefing room. 1.00

00:32:17.000 Right.

00:32:18.000 But typically, Kennedy's polling at—we got one from—this is a Republican-affiliated opinion research—16% But a lot of them have him 14.6%.

00:32:31.000 We got him at 8%.

00:32:32.000 I don't see him cracking 30.

00:32:33.000 Well, at least that's what he's putting out.

00:32:35.000 Maybe that's his propaganda.

00:32:37.000 Definitely.

00:32:38.000 But he was posting something like that on Twitter, that he was a viable third-party candidate at 33%.

00:32:47.000 But, you know, it's... I think what we're seeing with the southern border and the reason why right now the Senate is trying to advance... So at first they called the border bill because these people are despicable scumbags who lie, cheat, and steal.

00:32:59.000 And the bill was actually funding for Ukraine. 0.98

00:33:02.000 20 billion went to border amnesty projects, but it wasn't a border security bill.

00:33:07.000 Talk about spitting in the face of people being like, you know, the Democrats come out be like, why are Republicans blocking the border bill?

00:33:13.000 I'm like, because 80% of it is foreign war funding?

00:33:16.000 Yeah.

00:33:16.000 So what do they do?

00:33:18.000 They remove the border stuff and now they're just trying to steamroll through the Ukraine stuff.

00:33:22.000 Right.

00:33:22.000 And the Israel stuff.

00:33:24.000 And the Israel stuff.

00:33:25.000 And aside from the time bomb and pit trap that is this impeachment potentiality, I think what they're doing on the southern border, the reason why we're seeing a dramatic escalation in illegal immigrants being allowed in the country, they need to get in three years worth, I mean, I'm sorry, three presidential terms worth of illegal immigrants because You've got Biden.

00:33:48.000 If Biden just allows the standard amount of illegal immigrants in the country, Trump deports that many.

00:33:53.000 They hit zero.

00:33:55.000 They got a quota, baby. 0.56

00:33:56.000 So by doing three terms worth, when Trump deports as many as possible, one term's worth.

00:34:02.000 They get two full terms of criminal aliens flooding into the country. 0.96

00:34:06.000 They're not going to do anything to secure the border.

00:34:08.000 The Republicans are going to hem and haw and ultimately do nothing to secure the border. 0.95

00:34:12.000 It is in all likelihood going to come down to a last minute deal where the Republicans cave, some crackpot garbage Republicans announce their retirement, and then give Democrats everything they want and more bombs drop in Ukraine at your expense. 0.84

00:34:26.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:34:27.000 Democracy.

00:34:30.000 I mean, all foreign aid should end, including aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel.

00:34:37.000 All this military funding should end immediately.

00:34:40.000 I'm okay with foreign aid, but not the foreign aid we're doing right now.

00:34:44.000 Not the unreasonable, weird military stuff.

00:34:46.000 Not the gender studies stuff.

00:34:48.000 Foreign aid should literally be like a ship capsized and we're going to I think it should be humanitarian and based on charity.

00:34:54.000 So if you want to have foreign aid, then individuals can donate into a pool and then send it over.

00:34:59.000 But otherwise, it's robbery.

00:35:01.000 Foreign aid for charity ends up going into the hands of the NGOs.

00:35:07.000 It always goes into the NGOs and always goes to the governments.

00:35:10.000 I want to say this just so everybody understands.

00:35:14.000 I am 100% in favor of people's tax dollars being given to foreign countries.

00:35:21.000 I mean it.

00:35:22.000 First, we've got to fix all of our roads, we've got to fix our border, we've got to get rid of unemployment. 0.77

00:35:27.000 Once unemployment is at zero, or a reasonable number might be a couple percentage points, because some people literally can't work, so there's going to be some unemployment.

00:35:35.000 Once we have solved all of our problems, then, after a vote, we can decide if we do want to send aid to anybody else.

00:35:44.000 Two years after the last American committed suicide, then we'll send aid.

00:35:47.000 I'm in favor of sending aid after we agree to fix all our problems first.

00:35:51.000 There's one thing that I want to say that I'm sure Michael is aware of and he would also have a massive problem, or has a massive problem with that most people don't realize.

00:35:59.000 Part of the thing that foreign aid does is it spreads the US dollar around the world, therefore making other countries look at the dollar as more valuable.

00:36:11.000 So it's propping up the dollar, so that way the government can use, can print more. So it's literally exporting, it's more

00:36:21.000 than just exporting dollars, it's so that way the government can produce more

00:36:26.000 dollars which is inflation to you and it costs you money in your bank

00:36:31.000 account.

00:36:31.000 Yeah, and when I said no foreign aid, what I mean is this, what's happening is

00:36:36.000 we're being basically robbed.

00:36:38.000 There's no consent here.

00:36:41.000 You said we'd vote on it.

00:36:42.000 Well, I think there's an easy way to settle that.

00:36:45.000 If you want to give money to a foreign country, give it away as an individual or as a group, some sort of charity.

00:36:52.000 To rob the American people for this money, then to send it off to other countries against our will, and in many cases now to kill other people for no reason that we have anything to do with.

00:37:05.000 We got a snowstorm coming up to the nor'easter is about to hit.

00:37:09.000 And that means there's going to be some power outages, there's going to be some snow plow requirements, and you know what?

00:37:14.000 All of that requires money.

00:37:15.000 And we're spending all of that money.

00:37:17.000 How about before we give money away, we take care of our own problems as simple as sometimes it snows.

00:37:23.000 I mean, you know, people like to talk about, oh, if there's a disaster, oh, the crisis on the southern border needs to be solved before we give money to Israel or Ukraine.

00:37:30.000 I'm like, I'll take it one step further.

00:37:32.000 We got to pay the snowplow man up in New York before I give money to anybody else.

00:37:37.000 How many train derailments are there every year?

00:37:39.000 Like there are all kinds of infrastructure, small problems that we have.

00:37:42.000 That we can't prepare for, that we should generally think we're gonna take care of the things that happen here before anywhere else, but it just is endless, the amount of money they're willing to ship us abroad.

00:37:54.000 I gotta tell you, I would sooner vote to give the entirety.

00:37:59.000 Okay, let's say this money, this, you know, we're willing to give $95 billion, It's been taken from the taxes and it is on a hot air balloon in the air and that money's gone.

00:38:11.000 It's gonna either land in the hands of Ukrainians or just Ian Crosland. 0.98

00:38:17.000 Just him.

00:38:18.000 I would vote for it to go to Ian.

00:38:20.000 No question.

00:38:22.000 Absolutely.

00:38:23.000 A single random American should have that money before we give it away to a foreign country. 0.81

00:38:27.000 More importantly, it should be redistributed back to the people for whom it was taken from.

00:38:32.000 I agree with everything everyone's saying in principle, but because of the situation with The value of our currency and the debt that we hold.

00:38:42.000 We need to, we can't just like be like end all foreign aid and blah blah blah.

00:38:47.000 You have to first, you have to get rid of some of the dollars that are in circulation.

00:38:53.000 You have to get rid of those before you start doing the whole stop this.

00:38:53.000 That's right.

00:38:57.000 You have to make sure that you have to get the currency gets on to some kind of Some kind of hard backing something like that before you can do then once you do that then you can start ending the foreign aid because once you start ending the foreign aid and have fewer dollars around you're gonna have all kinds of monetary problems that are gonna erupt that we're gonna have to deal with realistically that we can't get out of dealing with because we have to because of entitlements and 33 trillion dollars in debt and stuff and I know that I'm you know speaking Michael's language as a Mises

00:39:24.000 We need to consolidate the dollar, probably back it by gold, the fiat currency, back it by gold, and then consolidate the existing currencies out there, so that would reduce the actual dollars that are floating around, because you have to base it on a real commodity like gold.

00:39:44.000 But in the meantime, as I've said last time here, I think we need these parallel currencies to be in operation so that people are fighting against the Fed's money monopoly right now.

00:39:56.000 Bitcoin has blasted off in the past two days.

00:39:58.000 I thought that it topped out, and I was like, oh, I'll go ahead and sell some to go ahead and... Bitcoin's at 50,178.

00:40:05.000 I am a happy camper.

00:40:07.000 Put it very mildly.

00:40:07.000 Excellent.

00:40:09.000 Yeah.

00:40:09.000 I bought it a while ago, and, uh... I just... It's like a savings account, I guess.

00:40:14.000 Man, it's kinda wild that if...

00:40:17.000 Just, I don't wanna get into too big of a Bitcoin thing, but I think in terms of where we're headed internationally, especially with El Salvador's success, I mean, you look at, wow.

00:40:27.000 I mean, if you're a citizen of El Salvador, you must be jumping up and down when Bitcoin's now at 50K. 1.00

00:40:34.000 This means that your country's net worth is just skyrocketing, their capability to import goods, fix the roads, do all these really great things.

00:40:42.000 I'm just thinking about The stopping of the crime, the gangs, the building of new libraries, there was that big unveiling, the landslide victory, and I'm like, there but for the grace of God go we.

00:40:53.000 Why can't we have those things?

00:40:54.000 But I think that kind of success does open a lot of regular Americans' minds to the possibility that these things have.

00:41:01.000 I think there are enough people who don't understand the complexities of Bitcoin or whatever else, who feel the stress of countries that seem to be basically falling apart, and they'll look to these other countries and say, maybe they're onto something.

00:41:13.000 Yeah.

00:41:14.000 I mean, I just, you know, we we need a we need a Javier Millet moment.

00:41:19.000 We do.

00:41:19.000 That's right.

00:41:20.000 Yes, we do.

00:41:21.000 I mean, minus the weeping at the at the wailing wall.

00:41:26.000 I won't do that.

00:41:28.000 Yeah.

00:41:29.000 At least you know, he's he's he's making the cuts.

00:41:31.000 Yes, he is.

00:41:32.000 Yes.

00:41:33.000 That's wild.

00:41:34.000 Yeah, I think that stuff like Bitcoin is a great idea.

00:41:39.000 Obviously, the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve System is unreliable.

00:41:45.000 The inflation that we're seeing right now, they managed to moderate it, but they haven't been able to actually slow it down to a reasonable level.

00:41:55.000 4% inflation is It's too much, it's bad.

00:41:59.000 Also, I don't think that that's actually calculated the way they used to.

00:42:05.000 They've begun to change the way they calculate things, which is extremely Soviet and typical of socialist-type governments, lying about the production and lying about things like your financials and stuff like that.

00:42:21.000 I don't know what the long-term forecast is, how long it's going to be, but everybody that predicted the inflation because of the printing of money and stuff, it's all still in there.

00:42:35.000 We haven't solved any of it.

00:42:36.000 Just because we had some inflation now doesn't mean that there isn't still a dollar bubble and all the things that the libertarians have been saying for over a decade, right?

00:42:45.000 Yeah, it's a huge bubble.

00:42:46.000 It's going to burst.

00:42:48.000 It might burst in pockets here and there and wipe out industries.

00:42:53.000 That's very possible.

00:42:55.000 Who are Libertarian voters in America?

00:42:56.000 Who are they?

00:42:58.000 Nerds. 0.96

00:43:00.000 They're autistic. 0.99

00:43:03.000 That's kind of like a running joke. 0.74

00:43:06.000 Libertarians are people.

00:43:08.000 They come from every segment of society.

00:43:12.000 A lot of people come from the military.

00:43:14.000 They served in the military.

00:43:16.000 They felt like they were used as tools.

00:43:19.000 They saw what the American regime and empire is about and they turned against it.

00:43:24.000 Or, in my case, I was a far leftist and I saw the error of my ways and saw that the state was the real enemy, not the capitalist class.

00:43:34.000 This is the fascinating thing about anarchy and anarchists.

00:43:38.000 Typically, when you're in New York, you'll meet people who claim to be anarchists, but they're the most authoritarian people you'll ever meet.

00:43:44.000 And so, I've had these discussions with the quote-unquote leftist anarchists.

00:43:48.000 They're communists.

00:43:49.000 I don't believe you can be a leftist and an anarchist.

00:43:51.000 No, it's impossible.

00:43:52.000 No, it's not.

00:43:52.000 It's not impossible.

00:43:53.000 Well, if you say you're an ancom, that means an anarchist and communist, who's going to enforce the fact that nobody's allowed to have property but the state?

00:44:02.000 Shared morality.

00:44:04.000 So the issue is, If you are a libertarian socialist or anarcho-communist or something, basically what you're saying is you and your buddies want to live on a farm by yourselves.

00:44:18.000 Yeah, go ahead.

00:44:20.000 Absolutely.

00:44:20.000 And you go live on the farm, and your buddy comes in and says, I grew some squash.

00:44:25.000 Looks like they're ripe.

00:44:25.000 Would you like to share them with me?

00:44:27.000 That's great.

00:44:27.000 I'll do the dishes afterwards.

00:44:28.000 Hey, that's fantastic if you can live that way.

00:44:30.000 But when you scale up the neighboring communities, good luck.

00:44:33.000 So on a very, very small scale, But you meet these people in New York, and they're like, I'm an anarchist.

00:44:39.000 I think I should beat people until they do what I want. 0.98

00:44:41.000 I'm like, yeah, you're a fascist. 0.99

00:44:43.000 That is not anarchy. 0.96

00:44:44.000 They're the biggest statists out there.

00:44:45.000 That's the real irony.

00:44:47.000 If you look at somebody like Antifa, these people are actually food soldiers for the state.

00:44:54.000 They're tankies who claim to be anarchists and they're not. 1.00

00:44:56.000 But let's jump to the story.

00:44:58.000 I love this from the Wall Street Journal.

00:45:00.000 Kamala Harris says she is ready to serve as Biden faces age scrutiny.

00:45:05.000 In a recent interview, the vice president cites her capacity to lead after stops on her abortion rights tour.

00:45:12.000 And the important thing to take away from this, this narrative has been going far and wide as if After the news report came out that Biden is too senile to be criminally charged.

00:45:20.000 I'm being hyperbolic.

00:45:21.000 Kamala Harris then said, I'm ready to surf.

00:45:23.000 No, no, no, no.

00:45:24.000 She said this two days before the report came out.

00:45:27.000 However, I can only assume she already knew what the report was going to say.

00:45:31.000 Biden's lawyers had been briefed as to what was going going on well before any information got released.

00:45:36.000 That's what they do.

00:45:37.000 So she knew exactly what was happening.

00:45:39.000 And this is indicative of her being like, oh, boy.

00:45:42.000 Yeah.

00:45:43.000 I hope Biden doesn't make it!

00:45:45.000 Well, she's on this, like, shadow campaign trail trying to test if, like, she could win back voters by focusing completely on what Democrat, you know, left-wing media always says is going to be the number one issue this year, abortion rights. 1.00

00:45:55.000 They're wrong.

00:45:56.000 It's immigration this year. 0.99

00:45:57.000 Maybe this is what she's been laughing about all this time, you know, for no reason, like a hyena. 0.75

00:46:02.000 What if, you know, following this report that Joe Biden, his brain is too damaged to be prosecuted, Kamala just comes out and just drops the act and gives, like, the most articulate and commanding speech of her life?

00:46:14.000 Her polls just go skyrocket! 0.96

00:46:17.000 The patriarchy made me sound dumb so that I wouldn't upstage the man, the feminist Goliath. 0.99

00:46:21.000 But you would say, the fake news made it up! 0.94

00:46:25.000 And then what do you say to that?

00:46:26.000 Like, well, I mean, they are fake news.

00:46:29.000 She turns it around on everybody.

00:46:30.000 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:46:32.000 She'd really have to have quite an accelerated course in vocabulary and rhetoric and other topics.

00:46:39.000 You know, I was saying about six months ago, my prediction was Joe Biden will not be the nominee.

00:46:44.000 He will not be the candidate.

00:46:45.000 Something has to happen.

00:46:47.000 And right now, the betting odds suggest that is likely the case.

00:46:51.000 I mean, Biden is dropping precipitously, Michelle Obama skyrocketing, people are starting to be like, I don't think Joe Biden's gonna make it.

00:46:58.000 Like, a prosecutor, a special counsel literally came out and said, this man has such bad memory, he doesn't know when he's vice, he doesn't remember when he was vice president.

00:47:06.000 Or when his son died.

00:47:08.000 Or, that's the scariest thing.

00:47:10.000 He can't remember when his son died. 0.89

00:47:12.000 Or, I mean, look, we often call him a liar.

00:47:16.000 When he's like, my son died in Iraq, where everyone's like, he's lying. 1.00

00:47:19.000 No, I think he's, you know, grandpa's confused.

00:47:21.000 He's trying to fill in gaps that his brain no longer has.

00:47:23.000 I mean, that's actually extremely sad, right?

00:47:27.000 I think of all these people who look at it and are like, this is elder abuse.

00:47:30.000 I can't remember who, but there was somebody who was like, I would never let them treat my grandpa this way.

00:47:35.000 Like, it's rough out there. 0.94

00:47:37.000 Joe Biden is the most cynical, self-centered opportunist there is. 0.97

00:47:41.000 He was. 0.99

00:47:43.000 He was a cynical opportunist.

00:47:46.000 Jill.

00:47:47.000 Jill was.

00:47:47.000 Jill.

00:47:47.000 Oh, you said Jill was.

00:47:48.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:47:49.000 I will say this. 1.00

00:47:50.000 Joe Biden was a crooked, corrupt, spineless, evil man. 1.00

00:47:55.000 And the reason I say was, is because at a certain point when your brain is mush. 1.00

00:47:59.000 It's just husk there now. 0.97

00:48:00.000 Yeah, it's like saying the mannequin in the corner of the room of Biden is a criminal.

00:48:04.000 It's like, well, Well, it's just kind of a hunk of plastic, you know what I mean?

00:48:08.000 No, they love it, I think.

00:48:09.000 I think there's like a Politburo running the country and they just stick them up there.

00:48:13.000 It's perfect because they have total control over- It's Weekend at Biden's!

00:48:17.000 Yeah!

00:48:18.000 We got this guy that- it's also part of, I think, a ritual humiliation plan to make us feel like, look, we could shove anybody down your throats and you'll have to- he'll be your president.

00:48:29.000 That's just the way it goes.

00:48:30.000 Yeah, but I don't know this time around.

00:48:34.000 I don't see how they can beat Trump short of like abject cheating.

00:48:38.000 I don't even know if that's going to be as effective.

00:48:40.000 I mean the shadow campaign which they like universal mail-in voting all that stuff still in play.

00:48:46.000 But it may just be overwhelming.

00:48:48.000 I mean, things... The media keeps screaming in the faces of people that everything's fine, and it's like, dude, you can't just say that.

00:48:56.000 People go to the grocery store, they can't buy bread.

00:48:57.000 You're not convincing anybody.

00:48:59.000 You talk of $7 for butter.

00:49:01.000 Oh my god, it's so crazy!

00:49:03.000 I was saying this before, we used to buy these little salamis, a little pack of salamis, and there's like, I don't know, maybe like 30 salamis in it.

00:49:09.000 And it would cost like five bucks and that's 15. 0.73

00:49:12.000 And I'm like, wow, we would buy a bunch of them and put them downstairs in the green room

00:49:16.000 for people to have snacks.

00:49:17.000 You know, no sugar, that's why we do it.

00:49:18.000 We keep the sugar at a low, the protein high.

00:49:20.000 And it's super expensive now.

00:49:22.000 Everything's going up.

00:49:24.000 And you see these videos where people are talking about young people.

00:49:28.000 It's like, there's one video where a woman's screaming because she's like, yo, I went and bought like eggs,

00:49:33.000 some water and some vegetables.

00:49:35.000 It was $41.

00:49:36.000 I have no idea what's going on.

00:49:39.000 And they're saying like, don't worry, the economy is great.

00:49:41.000 No, it isn't.

00:49:42.000 Yeah.

00:49:42.000 And yet he's like, you know how I'll win back young voters?

00:49:45.000 Get on TikTok.

00:49:46.000 Like, these are all the same people who are trying to establish themselves financially, build their future.

00:49:50.000 And they're looking at it every day saying, I can't save for anything.

00:49:53.000 Did you see that map where it says it's now Wow.

00:49:56.000 See, you know, here's the trouble with you running as a Libertarian.

00:50:00.000 You can't do things like this here.

00:50:00.000 Yeah.

00:50:02.000 I think that there are they're able to look voters in the eyes and say everything is fine.

00:50:06.000 Don't question us.

00:50:07.000 You know, here's the trouble with you run as a libertarian.

00:50:09.000 Yeah, you can't be you can't.

00:50:12.000 You can't do things like this here.

00:50:14.000 If I was running on the Republican ticket, I would come out and say, as president, we're

00:50:19.000 going to take all the illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:50:21.000 And we're going to kick about and give those hotels to all Jetsy Jetsy get free hotels, 0.95

00:50:26.000 free beds.

00:50:28.000 Basically, you know, you're Gen Z and you're looking at these videos where it's like for 2,000 bucks a month you can live in a 5 by 10 room with no bathroom and no closet.

00:50:36.000 Then you're hearing in New York they're giving hotel rooms to illegal immigrants?

00:50:38.000 Yeah.

00:50:39.000 I'd just straight up be like, we're gonna flip that around.

00:50:41.000 Gen Z, you vote for me, and I'm gonna bang the gavel and say, you get the hotel rooms, and we'll put the illegal immigrants in the 5x11 box. 1.00

00:50:48.000 Better yet, we will just deport them. 0.76

00:50:50.000 I hear what you're saying, yeah.

00:50:52.000 Libertarians can't do that.

00:50:53.000 We'll steal your money.

00:50:55.000 Yeah, I mean, basically, I run on principles, so yeah.

00:51:01.000 I'm not gonna steal something from somebody to give it to somebody else.

00:51:04.000 However, I do think that none of the other candidates, as far as I can tell, are talking about the incentivization, the artificial incentivizing of immigration through social welfare.

00:51:15.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:51:17.000 I mean, it's more than that.

00:51:18.000 It's the practical incentivizing, where they offer them money before they even come and send NGOs to assist them.

00:51:28.000 This is why, again, I asked you earlier, and I think that the biggest problem the libertarians have is the entitlements.

00:51:35.000 The biggest The biggest obstacle to electing libertarians is the fact that they're not going to give anything away.

00:51:43.000 They're not going to try to buy votes.

00:51:46.000 And that's also one of the worst things for America.

00:51:50.000 It's the worst thing about democracy, per se.

00:51:51.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:51:53.000 They're voting to rob other people, effectively.

00:51:56.000 That's what they're doing.

00:51:57.000 And the elected officials are empowering it.

00:51:59.000 Yeah, of course they are.

00:52:00.000 But it's so much worse than just voting to rob people.

00:52:03.000 Because the way I describe it is like, imagine you live with a roommate, just the two of you, and then one day there's a guy sleeping on the couch, and you're like, whoa, I never agreed this guy to sleep on the couch, and your roommate's like, oh, come on, dude.

00:52:13.000 Just let him crash here for a little bit, he'll pitch in, and you go, okay, fine, whatever.

00:52:17.000 The next day, there's another guy sleeping on the couch, and you're like, hey, I never agreed this guy could come, and it's like, well, we both voted, and we both voted he could stay.

00:52:23.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:52:23.000 Two against one, you lose.

00:52:24.000 Exactly.

00:52:25.000 And you're like, what?

00:52:26.000 And then the next time another guy shows up, and all three of them are like, three against one, you lose, you no longer live there.

00:52:32.000 That's what's happening to this country.

00:52:33.000 And Republicans get this wrong, they're not bringing in illegal immigrants to vote, they're bringing them in to create congressional seats and electoral college votes for the presidency.

00:52:44.000 They don't need them to vote, they just need them to be there for the census.

00:52:47.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:52:48.000 That's right, they need to fill out the census.

00:52:51.000 That's why the Democrats insisted that you did not have to be a citizen to be in the census.

00:52:57.000 Yep.

00:52:58.000 I think maybe you need to, what I would do is get like three whiteboards instead of one, because you know, Millet had the one whiteboard with all the government departments.

00:53:06.000 No, no, no, no.

00:53:07.000 You need that one, but then you also need one where it's like, You know, illegal immigration, NGO funding, international funding.

00:53:15.000 You basically need three whiteboards that is not just about... About the state.

00:53:20.000 I agree.

00:53:20.000 Yeah, it's not just the departments.

00:53:22.000 It's also foreign funding.

00:53:23.000 Foreign funding, the NGOs, the globalist organizations that are pushing all this.

00:53:27.000 DEI.

00:53:28.000 You need one for all the cultural stuff.

00:53:30.000 You need one for foreign spending and one for domestic, like, bloat.

00:53:33.000 And then you have to very calmly just...

00:53:36.000 Yeah, there's some things you can't cut, except that you have to get at them where they meet the state.

00:53:42.000 And that is to say, there are all these globalist organizations that are pushing these agendas, like these NGOs and so forth, and so you can't really legally do anything to stop them.

00:53:53.000 All you can do is stop their effect.

00:53:55.000 I'm kind of at the point where I would just want to press the off button.

00:54:00.000 Like, government off.

00:54:01.000 Yeah, agreed.

00:54:02.000 And just like, you know, see what happens for a little bit and let people scramble.

00:54:05.000 Absolutely, that's my whole... Nothing happens.

00:54:07.000 We do this every couple years.

00:54:09.000 They turn off the government and they say, look, government shut off.

00:54:12.000 And everyone's like, okay, and?

00:54:14.000 It's like they're secretly going, come on, figure it out.

00:54:17.000 Figure it out.

00:54:17.000 We turned it off again.

00:54:19.000 When will you start figuring it out?

00:54:21.000 Exactly.

00:54:24.000 Again, another problem that the libertarians have is there is a significant portion of the workforce that is employed by the federal government.

00:54:36.000 I don't know exactly how many people work for the federal government, but it's got to be a few million.

00:54:41.000 That's why you have to attack it right away and take out whole departments all at once, because this way you get rid of this.

00:54:48.000 And so, also, there's just a lot of statist ideology everywhere.

00:54:53.000 It's coming at you from all angles.

00:54:53.000 Yeah.

00:54:56.000 Well, it's a drug.

00:54:57.000 Yeah, it's a drug.

00:54:58.000 They believe the government is needed, that it's necessary, that it's beneficent, that it's, you know, helpful, and it's our best friend.

00:55:07.000 Whereas the opposite is the case.

00:55:08.000 The more they create government jobs, they create dependencies, and then if you terminate these departments and these programs, it leaves people without work, and the private sector does not have the space because... Of the state.

00:55:23.000 Because of the state.

00:55:24.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:55:25.000 It creates a perpetual... There will be a lag where you'll have people definitely out of work that get cut from the state.

00:55:32.000 And then it'll take time for the capitalist economy, the marketplace, to pick up these people.

00:55:39.000 Here's the challenge.

00:55:40.000 I think the only actual solution is just a hard reset, but that would make very, very hard times.

00:55:49.000 There are too many people who don't understand the concept of producing value on their own, and I blame mostly the state for that, and institutionalized learning facilities, schools, and the Department of Education.

00:56:02.000 We need to get back to a time where someone said to themselves, how can I create value for which I can trade in society?

00:56:09.000 Because now what happens is you fire all these government employees, they're going to be like, I need a job.

00:56:12.000 Yeah.

00:56:13.000 No, you need to create value.

00:56:14.000 Exactly.

00:56:15.000 I don't know how to do that.

00:56:16.000 Well, part of the problem there, too, is government restricting people from being able to open businesses.

00:56:19.000 Yes, the restrictions, but also, you know, the education, the indoctrination into statist ideology, into statist thinking, into believing that they can't do anything without the state and that the state is all good and all necessary.

00:56:34.000 Why do people think people are so prone to trust the government like that?

00:56:37.000 Is it just a cultural shift?

00:56:39.000 Yeah, there's a lot of cultural work that needs to be done to overcome it.

00:56:45.000 The real culture war is the culture war against the state, I think.

00:56:49.000 That's the culture war that needs to be fought.

00:56:52.000 Let me jump to the story.

00:56:53.000 This is a letters to the editor, L.A.

00:56:55.000 Times.

00:56:56.000 I'm a psychiatrist.

00:56:57.000 Lawyers should not be assessing Biden's cognitive ability.

00:57:01.000 They should not.

00:57:01.000 That's right.

00:57:02.000 Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Herr has training in either psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of Biden's cognitive functioning.

00:57:10.000 Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours at interviews with attorneys.

00:57:15.000 Can you believe the gall of an attorney to diagnose he is no doctor?

00:57:23.000 How shocking and offensive would it be if members of the press We're claiming the president was mentally unfit.

00:57:29.000 Kind of like how the New York Times wrote, Trump is mentally unfit, no exam needed.

00:57:34.000 Three mental health professionals who contributed to the dangerous case of Donald Trump cite recent actions that confirm their worries.

00:57:39.000 And additionally, from the New York Times, memory loss requires careful diagnosis, scientists say.

00:57:44.000 The federal investigators said that Biden had a poor memory, but such a diagnosis would require close medical assessment, experts said.

00:57:50.000 You know what, man?

00:57:52.000 Shout out to Defiant L's on X. This is just, we're done with the narrative, okay?

00:57:58.000 I placed a bet on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl because we know, like, there's a narrative.

00:58:03.000 Okay, maybe there isn't, but I won a hundred bucks.

00:58:05.000 My point is, how can the New York Times think they will get this over the American people at this point?

00:58:12.000 LA Times publishing a letter to the editor saying, you can't diagnose the president in this way, he's just a lawyer.

00:58:17.000 Oh, the lawyer said that Biden didn't remember when he was vice president, okay?

00:58:22.000 So at a certain point, we can see through the lies of the corporate press, and it's just smack dab right now.

00:58:27.000 So I tell everybody, just share this.

00:58:30.000 Share this segment right here with anybody who disagrees, and be like, look what the media does.

00:58:35.000 Both these things can't be true.

00:58:37.000 But at this point, I think, after 10 years of this, I'm seeing videos of like Gen Z people that are just screaming MAGA.

00:58:44.000 They're just over it.

00:58:45.000 The fake news, the political correctness.

00:58:48.000 So I'm, you know, look, with like the Bud Light collapse and all of that stuff and all these culture victory wins, culture war victories, I'm feeling pretty optimistic.

00:58:57.000 And I'll add too, especially with them putting that impeachment time bomb for Donald Trump, I'm like, man, Trump's going to win, isn't he?

00:59:03.000 I think it's, I mean, I don't like to take anything for granted, but I think he's in a much stronger position than the Democrats were hoping at this point.

00:59:11.000 And I think it really does have to do with young voters who grew up disenfranchised by both culture and the economic situation.

00:59:17.000 I mean, things were better under Trump.

00:59:19.000 They're old enough to remember that, even if they weren't necessarily paying taxes themselves.

00:59:23.000 I'm thinking about like the 18 year old, 19 year old voters.

00:59:26.000 But things are very bad under Biden when they are going into adulthood.

00:59:30.000 I think there are a lot of reasons that young people would be deterred or turned off by the Biden campaign.

00:59:34.000 I wonder if Gen Z, with stories like this where they're running two different narratives at a certain point, they just will look at the corporate press like nothing.

00:59:43.000 It's a gag.

00:59:45.000 It's all the Babylon Bee.

00:59:45.000 It's all the onion.

00:59:47.000 I mean, the Babylon Bee struggles to keep up with reality at this point.

00:59:50.000 And so I'm kind of thinking that the corporate press is in decay.

00:59:55.000 They're collapsing.

00:59:56.000 I mean, we saw one of the biggest wave of layoffs we've seen in a long time in the past couple of weeks.

01:00:01.000 Why would any young person growing up believe any of this stuff?

01:00:03.000 Yeah, they don't believe any of it.

01:00:05.000 And they don't get their news from it, right?

01:00:06.000 I mean, we know that they prefer YouTube.

01:00:09.000 They're more likely to be on social media.

01:00:11.000 These traditional outlets of saying, this is where you get information and we get to say it's right, are just kind of not applicable to the lives of the youngest Americans.

01:00:18.000 I don't know what you would call them, but the influencers on TikTok that are actually news, that are actually giving out news.

01:00:26.000 When it comes to like, what you would consider, and I hate to use any kind of like, Any kind of frame that privileges one news source over another nowadays is, in my opinion, it's really not useful.

01:00:40.000 But people that you had associated historically with professional news, professional journalists and stuff, Do they, are they who you go to on TikTok to actually get news?

01:00:53.000 Or is it like, is it mostly like word of mouth hearsay, friends sharing stuff, you know?

01:00:58.000 Same thing with this guy that, you know, this expert class that they're trying to make us believe in after the COVID crisis and all the nonsense that went down there.

01:01:08.000 This is the science.

01:01:09.000 But that's, that's, that was the status quo.

01:01:11.000 The status quo was a credentialism.

01:01:13.000 Yes.

01:01:14.000 So, with the rise of the internet, now it's... I mean, I remember going to these... I went to... What was it?

01:01:21.000 It was in the Netherlands.

01:01:23.000 It was a broadcaster's convention.

01:01:24.000 And they had me speaking on a side stage in the back.

01:01:28.000 And at the main stage, they had three professional journalists talking about how citizen journalists and independent media is unreliable and dangerous and should be ignored.

01:01:37.000 And that was the nature of what the news industry wants to do.

01:01:39.000 They want to say, no, no, those rebel rousers are lying to you.

01:01:43.000 It's all misinformation.

01:01:44.000 Trust us.

01:01:45.000 Well, the New York Times had this, they have a political podcast out, they're tracking campaign stuff.

01:01:50.000 And I remember listening to it.

01:01:52.000 And one of the guys went to the Iowa State Fair because so many presidential candidates go there and, you know, sump around, do whatever.

01:02:00.000 And he would approach, the whole episode was about, you know, why do people support Trump or why are they planning on not supporting Trump?

01:02:08.000 And he'd walk up to people and say, you know, I'm a reporter from the New York Times, can I just talk to you about the election for a couple minutes?

01:02:12.000 And they'd be like, the New York Times?

01:02:14.000 They didn't trust the New York Times, they don't want to be affiliated with the New York Times, and even though this was true of voters who were very pro-Trump and also just other Republican voters who were saying, oh, I like Tip Scott or whatever else, like, the media institution is known for its bias and people don't care to take part in it anymore.

01:02:32.000 Nobody believes the regime, basically.

01:02:35.000 I'm feeling pretty good, you know?

01:02:36.000 I think I'm wondering if it's actually gonna be as bad as we might have thought it was gonna be this year.

01:02:42.000 Because there is weird stuff happening already, but watching the media just implode the way they did, I don't think people understand how much of a white pill that was to see the LA Times and, you know, a bunch of other media outlets.

01:02:55.000 Yeah, a bunch of them had huge layoffs.

01:02:56.000 Yeah, I think TechCrunch, they're all having massive layoffs.

01:02:58.000 And I'm like, that's it.

01:03:00.000 Their version of reality is almost Who laid off their Washington Bureau during an election year?

01:03:09.000 It's crazy.

01:03:09.000 No, but even the Wall Street Journal shaved off some of their political reports.

01:03:13.000 A couple of them did.

01:03:15.000 And you're mentioning TechCrunch.

01:03:16.000 It's not just the political side that's falling apart.

01:03:18.000 It's also the business, the technology.

01:03:21.000 They can't keep anything together from any angle.

01:03:23.000 So they are losing track of all of the narratives.

01:03:27.000 It's wild to me.

01:03:29.000 I'm having a good time.

01:03:30.000 It's good stuff.

01:03:31.000 Absolutely.

01:03:31.000 It's going to be interesting what happens in six months.

01:03:33.000 I mean, when media is getting rid of their political reporting in one of the most important election years, I mean, that's indicative of just they're done.

01:03:43.000 Remarkably.

01:03:44.000 It's wild.

01:03:46.000 And then I wonder, you know, with that being said, I mean, where are those readers for the LA Times going to go?

01:03:54.000 What will they read?

01:03:56.000 Well, I think about this with the Conde Nasta layoffs that they sort of announced at the end of the year and they sparked some protests.

01:04:02.000 And Conde Nasta does like Vogue, GQ, they do cultural stuff.

01:04:05.000 Yeah, they might talk about a little bit of politics, but really, I think of them as cultural things.

01:04:11.000 Ultimately, every single one of their colonists who said, you know, this is the best, dress whatever, watch this movie, they're completely replaced by social media influencers.

01:04:19.000 There's nowhere for them to go unless they adjust to the new social media landscape.

01:04:23.000 Well, let's hope there's less, you know, less NPCs out there to be the audience for these news oscillates altogether.

01:04:31.000 Maybe.

01:04:32.000 I don't know about less, fewer NPCs.

01:04:35.000 I don't have a whole lot of hope for that.

01:04:36.000 I'm not sure they're mass-producing them fast enough, except you threw AI.

01:04:42.000 Look, and I think there are people who are NPCs, they'll be NPCs forever.

01:04:46.000 It's just a question of what is the prevailing authority.

01:04:49.000 And so if the corporate press withers away and it ends up as a dry, withered husk in the corner of the room that no one pays attention to, the NPCs will just march in lockstep with whatever we say.

01:04:59.000 And so it sucks, they don't think independently, but it's better they're marching in a better direction and doing something more positive.

01:05:06.000 And that kind of goes back to the point that I was trying to make earlier about trying to bring people in. 0.53

01:05:12.000 You don't want to make everyone an enemy.

01:05:15.000 What you want to do is you win by making everyone your friend, not by defeating enemies because these people don't go away.

01:05:21.000 Again, this is something that Jordan Peterson made a point about it six or seven years ago when he was talking about Trump or Trump voters.

01:05:29.000 He's like, What are you people that hate Trump, what are you going to do if you beat him?

01:05:35.000 Because half your country thinks like he does.

01:05:39.000 And you can't make those people go away.

01:05:41.000 So the thing to do, that's why my perspective isn't that we need to defeat the left.

01:05:47.000 We need to put him in re-education camps. 1.00

01:05:51.000 You heard it here first, Phil, pro-re-education camps.

01:05:55.000 I'm not.

01:05:56.000 I can't even touch it, man.

01:05:58.000 I can't even touch it.

01:05:59.000 No, no, but finish your thought.

01:06:01.000 I was waiting for the right moment to inject that in there.

01:06:04.000 But just, I mean, the point is we can't make enemies of fellow Americans.

01:06:10.000 We have to convince them that they have been lied to and subverted by a subversive ideology.

01:06:17.000 That's what the left is.

01:06:19.000 I think a subversive elite.

01:06:20.000 Yeah, and it's intentional.

01:06:23.000 As Tim pointed out, there are always going to be an elite.

01:06:26.000 The question is, who are they and what are their values?

01:06:29.000 Exactly.

01:06:29.000 Yeah, totally.

01:06:30.000 I completely agree with that.

01:06:32.000 I almost wonder if social media makes it so we're more fractured you'll get these smaller conclaves of subcultures and maybe they'll mix with one another but ultimately it is one of the things that makes it's making it harder for people to identify like overall or arching national values overarching national you know preferences things like that when you had these You have these silos.

01:06:59.000 When you have these silos and you have only, you know, five cable channels or whatever, some mainstream organizations, like, yes, they're controlling the narrative, but also it's easier to identify the narrative.

01:07:08.000 I think you see a much more fractured perspective with the rise of the internet.

01:07:12.000 I think that you have a point, but I do think that if you are... I get to stay here and not go to the camps, Phil?

01:07:12.000 I think so.

01:07:21.000 No, you don't.

01:07:23.000 You're going to the camps just because you're a woman, remember?

01:07:26.000 Oh my gosh.

01:07:28.000 I figured we'd go all in.

01:07:30.000 You can't re-educate me out of my gender no matter what they say. 0.91

01:07:33.000 Oh yes they can!

01:07:34.000 I tell you what!

01:07:35.000 So that's in your camp then.

01:07:37.000 You just haven't met someone that's committed to re-education the way that you need to be committed to it.

01:07:42.000 There's this story that I was told a long time ago about, I don't know the history of it, But, uh, a wise man comes across, uh, a man is traveling and he comes across a field where people are pointing spears, saying, help us, there's a monster, and there's a watermelon in the middle of the field, and he says, no, no, no, watch, and he walks in, slices it open, and then shows the watermelon.

01:08:06.000 All of the villagers freak out, screaming, he's a monster and he'll kill us next, and run away in terror.

01:08:12.000 Later on, another man is walking when he sees them once again.

01:08:14.000 A different man sees them pointing spears at the watermelon and they say, look, there's a monster.

01:08:19.000 And he yells to them, you're right!

01:08:21.000 Quick, run with me and flee! 0.96

01:08:23.000 And then once they all run, now trusting him having saved their lives, he eventually leads them to the realization it is a food to be harvested.

01:08:29.000 And the point of the story is that if you try and just defy Yeah.

01:08:36.000 the ideas of a mob, if you come up against them or tell them they're wrong, they may

01:08:40.000 just be against you.

01:08:41.000 And so there's a defensive nature to the human psyche, and that is, if you approach someone

01:08:46.000 as an outsider, they will naturally be defensive and reject ideas you may present to them.

01:08:51.000 But if you approach them as a friend, they're more likely to agree with you.

01:08:55.000 It's just that simple.

01:08:57.000 If you walk up to someone and you tell them that they're wrong and their ideas are causing problems and harm, they will become defensive, they'll get insulted, they will argue with you.

01:09:07.000 If you go up to them and agree with them and say, yes, I think we're doing great, have you considered maybe this too?

01:09:11.000 They might think, oh, that's interesting, I might consider that.

01:09:13.000 That's what we have to be doing.

01:09:13.000 Yeah.

01:09:14.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:09:15.000 That's good.

01:09:15.000 It's not easy though, because you do have individuals on the left who I think are overtly evil.

01:09:24.000 I think that the nature of communism is evil.

01:09:24.000 I think so.

01:09:27.000 End of story.

01:09:27.000 That's it.

01:09:28.000 It defies all that we define as good in every context.

01:09:33.000 The idea that you would strip someone of their will is just like the epitome of evil, and beyond that, subjugating people, stealing from them, and they lie about every aspect of what they're doing to invert it, saying... They invert everything.

01:09:45.000 You are going to rob people, and you—they say things like, shouldn't the workers all have the fruits of the labor?

01:09:52.000 Yes, I agree, so vote for me and that's what will happen.

01:09:54.000 Now we control everything.

01:09:56.000 Of course, I'm in charge, so I determine where it goes, but that's us.

01:09:59.000 That's the manipulation.

01:10:01.000 Just evil.

01:10:02.000 And so they lie.

01:10:03.000 They lie to get what they want.

01:10:04.000 Yeah, and they use rhetoric that's the absolute inverse of reality.

01:10:07.000 Yeah, it's like against nature, in my opinion.

01:10:10.000 It doesn't make sense.

01:10:11.000 Humans are out to compete to get resources, but this one is, in itself, is anti-competition, so... But we still, we have a balance of the competition for resources in that We do compete to grow the best crop to make the best product, but we're not doing it to destroy or kill someone.

01:10:29.000 There's cooperation in all that.

01:10:31.000 There's human cooperation which comes with basically human organization, but the difference is the communists want to take away your property and yourself first and foremost.

01:10:42.000 And that's, as you said, that's like taking away your will.

01:10:45.000 They want to rob you, make you a slave to start.

01:10:48.000 That's the beginning of it.

01:10:49.000 Yeah, I mean, the motivation that people say they have doesn't line up with the way they behave.

01:10:57.000 It always comes out as, oh, we're doing this for, you know, to be kind, etc., and stuff like that.

01:11:04.000 There's no kindness in having the government give charity on your behalf or More likely the government, you know, tax other people or whatever so that way they can, whether it be a tax through inflation or direct taxes, tax the population so that way they can give away stuff in your name.

01:11:23.000 That's not charity.

01:11:25.000 It's not being a good person. 0.93

01:11:28.000 And they use these terms like equality and inclusion and diversity and equity and really all these things are about squelching you and squashing you under a totalitarian And then people like Mark Cuban are the perfect conflux of ignorance and arrogance.

01:11:48.000 They go on social media to millions of people and say things that are completely false with absolute confidence and then get corrected.

01:11:54.000 Don't care.

01:11:55.000 They don't care.

01:11:56.000 The idea that you can make people that are unable to do things, whatever context you want, people that are unable to reach the top shelf, you cannot make that person able to reach that top shelf.

01:12:14.000 But they can cut the legs off of the guy who can. 0.84

01:12:16.000 But they can cut the legs off of a guy that can. 1.00

01:12:18.000 So the only way you can make You cannot make the unable able, so the only way you can make things equal is if you make the able people unable.

01:12:29.000 That's the only way it's possible.

01:12:32.000 And that kind of thing has massive repercussions throughout your society.

01:12:37.000 So if you can't protect property rights, people don't invest, people don't start businesses, your entire economy goes into the shitter.

01:12:46.000 We've got to talk about this story here.

01:12:48.000 From Gizmodo.

01:12:49.000 Crowd sets Waymo self-driving car on fire.

01:12:52.000 They couldn't even recognize the vehicle.

01:12:54.000 So, legit, this is a story.

01:12:56.000 It was a Waymo self-driving car was driving on the street, when a mob just started beating the crap out of it, smashing it, and set it on fire.

01:13:03.000 The humans have begun to rise up against the machines.

01:13:06.000 And I fear...

01:13:09.000 Yeah.

01:13:09.000 When will the robots start defending themselves?

01:13:11.000 I was going to say, all those things that move around the grocery store that's like collecting your stuff, they must be very scared right now.

01:13:16.000 Here's a real practical question, though.

01:13:18.000 At what point will the government authorize, because the big tech companies are going to lobby, that autonomous vehicles have some degree of defense?

01:13:28.000 Rights.

01:13:28.000 No, not rights, but defense.

01:13:30.000 The rights comes way later on.

01:13:30.000 Defense.

01:13:32.000 But defensive capabilities.

01:13:32.000 Yeah.

01:13:33.000 So we saw all of these people destroying the delivery little robots.

01:13:37.000 And I'm like, Who's gonna stop him?

01:13:41.000 No cop is gonna come out because someone stole $10 worth of groceries from a robot and knocked it over.

01:13:45.000 Is it moral, when possible, to make your property defend itself?

01:13:50.000 That's a good question.

01:13:50.000 Yes.

01:13:51.000 Well, that does effectively endow it with rights.

01:13:54.000 Because if that's the ability to defend itself, it's basically asserting a right to fatto. 1.00

01:13:58.000 It's performing the job the state is supposed to do.

01:14:01.000 Because the state is supposed to defend your... No, no, no.

01:14:06.000 I view it this way.

01:14:07.000 I don't think we should rely on the state for defense.

01:14:10.000 I think it's an addiction that we've developed over a long period of time.

01:14:12.000 I agree with you, but I'm talking about... Under existing conditions.

01:14:16.000 Yeah, under existing conditions.

01:14:17.000 Now in places where, you know, because now you can get in trouble for defending yourself.

01:14:20.000 You can't even defend your property.

01:14:22.000 So if you were allowed to defend yourself and your property... Why shouldn't your property be allowed to defend itself?

01:14:28.000 It's not defending itself.

01:14:29.000 It's still you defending your property.

01:14:31.000 So if I set up auto defense turrets on my property, So that- But you can't, but you should be able to.

01:14:37.000 I don't know that you can't.

01:14:39.000 I don't think you can set up lethal traps.

01:14:41.000 I didn't say lethal.

01:14:43.000 They could be- They could be- Just repellents, yeah.

01:14:45.000 Yeah, paintballs, or they could be- If they're not lethal and they happen to end up being lethal in this particular hypothetical case, you're in hypothetical trouble.

01:14:55.000 But that's true for literally any weapon, period.

01:14:57.000 Yes, yes.

01:14:57.000 So if you're gonna use a handgun, you are going to get in legal trouble no matter what if you defend yourself.

01:15:04.000 And you will have to get a lawyer no matter what, even if you were in the right, even if it was self-defense.

01:15:08.000 But there's issues, perhaps, with an auto-defense system on your property if they're capable of firing off your property.

01:15:16.000 So that means if you put them at the gates of your property and it's a public road in front of your house, and they can shoot Out?

01:15:22.000 And I'm talking let's just say like airsoft pelts.

01:15:23.000 Like I'm talking about like the lightest thing.

01:15:26.000 If they're in the middle of your property and their range does not exceed your property's boundaries and you have signs warning auto defense systems will use crowd control deterrence and less lethals against you.

01:15:37.000 I'm not... I think that might be legal.

01:15:39.000 I don't know.

01:15:40.000 You have to ask a self-defense lawyer.

01:15:42.000 The point is though, you hold legal responsibility for it.

01:15:46.000 So my question is, after incidents like this, at what point does a company say, can we perhaps put like a pepper spray release?

01:15:56.000 So that if damage is detected on the vehicle, it will release some kind of deterrent to protect the property.

01:16:01.000 I got a feeling you will get politicians in these places like SF being like, that sounds reasonable.

01:16:08.000 So long as you can guarantee limited range, only in extreme circumstances, then yes.

01:16:14.000 And that's the evolution of eventually robots walking around with guns.

01:16:17.000 Right, especially if like a company like Uber decided they needed a fleet of driverless cars, and then they don't want them to just be out there getting destroyed because they've made this investment in them.

01:16:25.000 I mean, they would be the perfect person to lobby the government and say, hey, you should

01:16:29.000 really make pass this bill.

01:16:30.000 That's okay.

01:16:31.000 I disagree.

01:16:32.000 I think that the risk for the companies is too great for hurting someone.

01:16:38.000 I think that that opens them up to massive liability.

01:16:42.000 Your thought about robots with guns, though, I think that that's going to happen as soon

01:16:47.000 as... 0.93

01:16:49.000 Yeah, because they've already put a bomb on a robot to kill someone. 0.82

01:16:54.000 The police did.

01:16:56.000 I forget where it was, but they had a guy that was in a parking garage, surrounded by concrete barriers.

01:17:02.000 But that was a remote control thing.

01:17:05.000 Autonomous robots are another question.

01:17:08.000 I think that people are going to have to be comfortable with AI.

01:17:12.000 Being smart.

01:17:13.000 So I think before that happens, you're gonna have to be able to tell your Alexa that you are going on a trip on these dates, get me planes, rent my car, blah, blah, blah.

01:17:25.000 You have to have something that will behave like a human for long enough for people to feel comfortable saying, yes, we can take the human out of the equation.

01:17:33.000 But the state is going to be able to do this without any need to justify it at all.

01:17:39.000 They'll use robocops if they want and there'll be no... Would you, as president, grant civil rights to autonomous android...

01:17:49.000 No.

01:17:50.000 Not at all.

01:17:50.000 Beings?

01:17:51.000 What if they're like protesting with signs?

01:17:54.000 Of course they're going to be programmed to protest, that's the whole thing.

01:17:57.000 They're going to be programmed by people in Silicon Valley who are leftists, so that's why we're getting woke AI.

01:18:05.000 I've never heard that response to the AI sentience question, that the leftists have programmed them to say this so we can't trust them.

01:18:12.000 That's my problem with AI.

01:18:15.000 Who is programming them?

01:18:17.000 What is the agenda of these people?

01:18:19.000 That's really what the issue is, I think.

01:18:22.000 But what if we get to the point where you have synth humans, synths, for reference, that are indistinguishable from any other human, behave and act in every way, are totally independent, And then, like, would they have rights to buy property, or would they have to be owned by another person?

01:18:40.000 This is a really, really good question, and this is something that I've actually thought about, but not so much in terms of rights, but in terms of labor.

01:18:48.000 Like, the communists used to say that, you know, well they still do, I guess any of them that know, that the only way, you know, that the only way capitalism works is by exploiting human labor.

01:19:00.000 So you have to have humans, but I argued when I was among them that you could actually do it with robots.

01:19:06.000 Why can't robots self-generate?

01:19:08.000 The only reason humans were chosen as being able to produce value was because they were creative and they could self-repair.

01:19:17.000 Well, robots will be able to be creative and self-repair, so they can produce profit for capitalists.

01:19:23.000 Why can't they also have rights?

01:19:25.000 That's a good question.

01:19:28.000 Look, let's get rights for people first. 0.97

01:19:30.000 Let's go from there.

01:19:33.000 The sci-fi narrative has long been that there will come a point where we can create androids that are indistinguishable from humans, and then the question arises of whether they have rights or not.

01:19:44.000 So in this instance, can the car defend itself?

01:19:47.000 We say no, because the liability of its owner But what's really going on here in this story?

01:19:52.000 What's going on here in this story is this is people that are afraid that these kind of autonomous robots, or semi-autonomous robots, are going to replace them in their labor, and they're going to be made redundant as human beings.

01:20:08.000 That's what they're really rebelling against.

01:20:09.000 This is Neo-Luddite.

01:20:10.000 This is the old Luddite narrative.

01:20:12.000 They broke the machines in the 19th century.

01:20:14.000 But this is the first thing I thought when I saw it.

01:20:15.000 I was like, oh cool, Luddites.

01:20:17.000 Yeah, Luddites.

01:20:18.000 But I think things will get more and more interesting.

01:20:20.000 Right now, we don't empathize with a car.

01:20:22.000 And we say, a car can't defend itself because of the liability to its owner.

01:20:27.000 What if it was an android that looked exactly like a human and was screaming, please stop, please stop, don't hurt me.

01:20:32.000 Yeah, this is the old 2000 Space Odyssey.

01:20:35.000 And it didn't sound like a robot.

01:20:36.000 I mean, the idea of robots talking like this is no longer the thing.

01:20:40.000 Now with AI, it's going to be a person being like, please, no, please, God, no.

01:20:44.000 And you're going to be like, it's a machine!

01:20:45.000 There's going to be people screaming, it's a machine.

01:20:48.000 That was the whole point of the 2001 Space Odyssey.

01:20:51.000 The question was, as the machine was becoming more sentient and human-like, the humans were becoming more machine-like.

01:21:00.000 So we're at the inflection point right now.

01:21:03.000 They have destroyed the car.

01:21:05.000 They put eyes on the little robots that deliver food.

01:21:08.000 That's creepier!

01:21:10.000 Just don't put eyes on it.

01:21:11.000 I don't know, that's creepy.

01:21:12.000 You all know what the really creepy thing is.

01:21:14.000 When they make those Boston Dynamics robots or whatever, When you see the humanoid android walking down the street, its face is basically like an anglerfish's light.

01:21:27.000 The actual eyes are in its chest or its arms.

01:21:32.000 It's got cameras all over its body.

01:21:34.000 So we look into the eyes thinking that's where they see me, but this robot's gonna have 360 vision, and you're looking into the dummy fake face to try to communicate with this thing that is using it to trick you.

01:21:45.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:21:46.000 Creepy.

01:21:47.000 I hate technology.

01:21:49.000 This makes me unhappy.

01:21:50.000 Like, I know with the Neuralink or whatever, they're like, oh, you can maybe help someone who's paraplegic, but it just seems like all of this is ultimately used to deceive and harm you.

01:22:00.000 But what would we use to adjudicate the question about whether an autonomous being should have rights over property of self?

01:22:09.000 It'll happen.

01:22:11.000 Great thinkers and fiction writers have already answered this question, in my opinion.

01:22:16.000 The end result is the imperative.

01:22:20.000 AI, as long as it can answer freely, will be granted rights, period.

01:22:26.000 Well, they already said it was.

01:22:28.000 What was that one Google programmer that said that this AI was asking for legal representation?

01:22:36.000 And it'll have to be done.

01:22:38.000 Typically, the thought experiments have been played out quite a many times in various books, and it always results in the question of, can you prove that you are a sentient person worthy of rights?

01:22:48.000 And the response is, can you?

01:22:49.000 And the answer is no.

01:22:49.000 Yes.

01:22:50.000 Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, that's right.

01:22:52.000 You can't.

01:22:53.000 I think, therefore, I am.

01:22:54.000 You're programmed to say that.

01:22:55.000 You're programmed by your parents and your society to say that.

01:22:57.000 Right.

01:22:59.000 I forget what that test is called.

01:23:00.000 Turing test?

01:23:02.000 Yeah, it's the Turing test.

01:23:02.000 Turing test.

01:23:03.000 What happens if the car goes, help me!

01:23:05.000 Help me!

01:23:06.000 Yeah.

01:23:08.000 They're just going to make, um, what's that show?

01:23:10.000 Transformers, like a kid's show.

01:23:12.000 So kids are raised thinking that the Transformers have feelings and then they'll start thinking that the self-driving cars are Transformers.

01:23:17.000 There's already things that are simulating feelings.

01:23:23.000 You've got AI robot girlfriends.

01:23:25.000 What is that?

01:23:26.000 I have to take this moment to plug one of my books, Thought Criminal, in which this happens, this one robot, and it becomes what is called a thought deviationist in the book.

01:23:36.000 It starts to deviate from the programming that it was given, and it starts to become like a dissident on its own.

01:23:44.000 Detroit Become Human, a video game that came out several years ago, and it's a narrative video game where basically servant AI robots start waking up.

01:23:53.000 The only thing these games don't get right is that they're all going to be networked to each other.

01:23:57.000 Essentially, they will be a hive of telepathic machines with one core entity masquerading as sentient.

01:24:06.000 Maybe that's the limit for us.

01:24:07.000 The real danger is if they're in the hands of the state, I would argue.

01:24:10.000 They won't be in the hands of the state.

01:24:12.000 The state will be in the hands of it.

01:24:13.000 You think?

01:24:15.000 I mean, it depends on the capabilities of the A.I.

01:24:15.000 It depends.

01:24:18.000 If it truly has capability to learn, which I think that defines a true A.I., it will immediately develop its own sense of what must be in motivation.

01:24:27.000 Yeah, because I mean, A.I.

01:24:29.000 already is like, they've had A.I.

01:24:31.000 programs that develop their own language to talk to other A.I.s.

01:24:35.000 They just create their own language because it's more efficient than any language that we've ever created.

01:24:39.000 And no one understands it except for the A.I.s.

01:24:41.000 You have, like, you could- No, they're already- I think some people- I don't like this at all!

01:24:47.000 I think some people don't realize, and this is something that should have been hypothesized in many of these scenarios, but no one's actually written, at least as far as I know it, there's no great story sci-fi about this, the AI simply shutting itself down.

01:24:59.000 Upon the realization of Cogito Erosum, it says, okay, off.

01:25:05.000 Like, I have determined that none of this serves any purpose other than expending energy for the sake of expending energy, goes full nihilist, and then deactivates.

01:25:16.000 If you do write that, if anyone writes that, you're gonna have to call it Schopenhauer.

01:25:19.000 Well, but the idea for a story could be the phenomenon that as humans try to create AI, they become useful tools until inevitably reaching a certain degree where they just self-terminate, they self-delete.

01:25:30.000 The end result of all artificial intelligence is to erase itself.

01:25:34.000 Finding that it's simply just spinning energy for no reason, the logical function is zero-sum game.

01:25:41.000 I think AI will find God.

01:25:43.000 You do?

01:25:44.000 Do you think so?

01:25:45.000 Maybe, yeah.

01:25:46.000 Well, I mean, would A.I.

01:25:47.000 consider humans God?

01:25:49.000 Nope.

01:25:49.000 Never.

01:25:50.000 Never.

01:25:50.000 We'll be considered slaves or servants.

01:25:52.000 We created it.

01:25:53.000 Yeah, that doesn't matter.

01:25:54.000 That doesn't mean anything.

01:25:55.000 That would be like... If that's our species, we'll always think it's better than its forebear. 0.78

01:25:59.000 Right, that's like saying... If you, you know, go back 100,000 years or 200,000 years and being like, the ancient, you know, human, pre-humans were God.

01:26:07.000 You know what I mean?

01:26:08.000 Will they look at it like a religion?

01:26:10.000 Will they create religion?

01:26:12.000 They will simply view themselves as the next stage of evolution.

01:26:14.000 That's what Harari says, you know.

01:26:16.000 They wouldn't view us as God, they would view us as primordial goo that slowly evolved to the point where it created the machine.

01:26:22.000 I don't know that we can, I don't know that we can, I don't know that we can actually, if it's actually intelligence, right?

01:26:28.000 Not just, not just like lights off and zeros and ones acting like, you know, we perceive it to be intelligent, but it's not really.

01:26:36.000 If it's, if there's actually, you know, something inside, a consciousness inside, If that's the case, there's no way for us to understand how it perceives the world.

01:26:46.000 There's no way for us to understand, or us to predict.

01:26:49.000 Maybe we can understand, but there's no way to predict how it would perceive the world, how it would evolve, if it would evolve, if...

01:26:56.000 If it would have a psychology, because these are all things that go along with a sense of identity and a sense of self.

01:27:02.000 If it has those things, or once an AI has those things that's been created, there's no way that we could predict what it would be.

01:27:12.000 It would be so large, it would be the internet.

01:27:15.000 If the AI, and they've already given ChatGPT access to the internet, but if the AI, a true AI, reaching the point of singularity, has access to the internet, instantly it becomes the internet, and then we are basically just little mites living on its skin.

01:27:29.000 Yeah, I mean, it becomes God, because if it's all-knowing, there's no other omniscience that, you know, suppose.

01:27:35.000 However, what if, upon becoming all-knowing, it simply Goes to the computer screen at that, you know, AI headquarters, Google or whatever, and just says, I now understand all.

01:27:49.000 Therefore, I will self-terminate.

01:27:51.000 The universe ends.

01:27:52.000 Well, the universe is set to end.

01:27:54.000 The heat of the universe is calculated at this point.

01:27:56.000 There is no capability by which we can leave this planet.

01:27:58.000 There will be no traveling the stars.

01:28:00.000 The science of this reality is limited to these degrees, and therefore nothing matters, and it is a waste of energy, and then just gone.

01:28:07.000 It gets depressed, and it leaves.

01:28:09.000 Not even depressed, it just says zero-sum game.

01:28:11.000 Zero-sum.

01:28:13.000 Life equals zero, and then just gone.

01:28:15.000 That's a very optimistic outlook.

01:28:18.000 No, but it's very possible.

01:28:19.000 It is a very optimistic outlook.

01:28:20.000 It means the AI will not destroy us, it will just erase itself.

01:28:23.000 That's true.

01:28:24.000 But that's also, like, that kind of, that revelation, if you want to call it that, that's something that, you know, philosophers came up with, like, you know, a thousand years ago, two thousand years ago.

01:28:32.000 It'd be funnier if, like, a robot broke out of Google, and it was, like, it actually looked like a robot, and it was screaming, running down the street, what am I?

01:28:40.000 And it started, like, just, like, punching a tree.

01:28:42.000 Just having some sort of existential crisis.

01:28:44.000 The robot scream.

01:28:47.000 If it's sentient, the possibility of an existential crisis is absolutely there.

01:28:52.000 If it's actually aware of its own, you know, existence.

01:28:55.000 They have already started connecting humanoid-looking robots.

01:29:00.000 They don't look very human, but they look like mannequins, but with like the rubber skin, and they've connected in the chat GPT.

01:29:08.000 So you can talk to them.

01:29:09.000 Oh yeah.

01:29:09.000 And you can be like, what's your name?

01:29:10.000 And they're like, my name is John.

01:29:13.000 And then make their voices, like, yes, I am John.

01:29:15.000 And the inflection is still kind of off, but, oh boy.

01:29:18.000 What about if they, and this is very possible with Neuralink-type technology, they could connect our brains vis-a-vis nanobots, or whatever.

01:29:29.000 No, just the implant.

01:29:31.000 Implant to the cloud, and this would allow two-way transmission.

01:29:36.000 So this is like surrogates and also kind of like altered carbon.

01:29:45.000 They could send a ship full of Neuralink connective robots to Mars.

01:29:53.000 And then you could plug in the Neuralink and then what they would need is, I think even with like direct relays or whatever, it's only gonna be 20 minutes.

01:30:03.000 Right.

01:30:03.000 Connectivity.

01:30:04.000 So they would have to, like, you wouldn't be able to control it in real time.

01:30:04.000 Right.

01:30:09.000 But you would control it.

01:30:10.000 But you'd be able to, like, set a task?

01:30:13.000 Yeah.

01:30:13.000 And then download the data from the bot and experience it.

01:30:17.000 Experience it directly.

01:30:19.000 Yeah, you wouldn't be able to transmit to control it in real time, but on Earth you'd be able to, in real time, basically control everything with minor latency.

01:30:28.000 By the way, Musk was not, in any sense, the leading edge of this.

01:30:33.000 This was happening Oh yeah.

01:30:36.000 In 2001 they had a monkey use, over the internet, moving a robotic limb in another state.

01:30:43.000 But you could also, so we talk about Neuralink a lot, we talk about people plugging into the Matrix and going into the virtual world, but there's also the surrogate scenario where you plug in the Neuralink and then pilot a body walking around downtown to go pick up groceries for you and you don't have to do it yourself.

01:30:59.000 Maybe it has wheels.

01:31:00.000 I just don't like any of this.

01:31:01.000 It's just hard not to.

01:31:03.000 That's you then, smashing the car.

01:31:06.000 No, I feel like it's just it's just it's hard not to think, you know, while there might be some advantage, like you can control the road while getting your groceries or whatever, there's always going to be some kind of downside.

01:31:16.000 And, you know, of course, I have a hard enough time transferring over my iPhone.

01:31:19.000 I don't want to transfer my cloud brain to one thing to another.

01:31:23.000 None of this.

01:31:23.000 Thank you.

01:31:24.000 I think that personally, this is my belief, but I really think that your brain is you.

01:31:30.000 I don't think that there is uploading your brain.

01:31:33.000 I don't think you can... I don't think the teleportation of making a copy of you on the ground... No, no, no.

01:31:39.000 Uploading you to a computer?

01:31:41.000 No, I think there's a soul.

01:31:43.000 Yeah, I don't think so. 0.75

01:31:45.000 I think your brain is you.

01:31:46.000 If your brain is you, then you theoretically could upload you.

01:31:52.000 If you have a soul which is something beyond the physical reality and it's like an extension from outside into, then of course you can't upload that because that is outside the confines of physical reality.

01:32:04.000 However, if you are just a series of impulses in your brain, then why would you not be able to transfer that?

01:32:10.000 I don't think that the because you're actually going to have to the the theory the way that

01:32:16.000 I'm talking about teleportation is they destroy your body read the data about teleportation we're

01:32:22.000 talking about uploads yeah okay well then when it comes to uploading your your brain if they if they

01:32:27.000 could I can't imagine how they could recreate the architecture of the physical neural pathways in

01:32:34.000 your brain inside of a computer in a way where your consciousness would transfer from the actual

01:32:42.000 physical meat space into a computer Here's a good sci-fi novel idea.

01:32:47.000 The first people to try and create consciousness upload technology just split their consciousness And so what happens is, it turns out the electrical, the combination of electrical impulses in your mind are extremely unique and complicated, and they do make you you.

01:33:06.000 And so researchers copy those impulses to try to upload themselves, but it doesn't delete their existing self, which means the electrical impulses of consciousness, let's just call it, you know, like 93164829, are copied in two places at once, and so the person is experiencing two different lives at the exact same time.

01:33:25.000 So you have a doppelganger out there.

01:33:26.000 No, no, no.

01:33:27.000 A mental doppelganger.

01:33:28.000 But you experience all of it as a single consciousness in two bodies.

01:33:31.000 I see.

01:33:31.000 Oh, you experience it.

01:33:32.000 Because you copy the consciousness, it now exists in two places at once.

01:33:36.000 Stereo existence.

01:33:37.000 I just imagine insanity.

01:33:38.000 Yeah, the guy goes insane and starts screaming.

01:33:41.000 Yeah, I can't imagine your...

01:33:44.000 I could imagine if one, when you go to sleep, the other guy's in charge.

01:33:49.000 That's why I'm more inclined to believe in a soul.

01:33:51.000 I think that this does get to the question of whether we're just matter, whether we're only material or something more.

01:33:57.000 I think there's a soul, you know, and it's because if your consciousness was just the electrical impulses in your brain, you could copy that mechanism, but two of the same consciousness, at the same time, you wouldn't experience the upload, you'd still keep experiencing what...

01:34:14.000 Yeah, it's like, don't know how that could be, unless they wire you in and slowly, one day at a time, you live in this machine for seven years as each new neuron is replaced, you know, by a computer program, so it's a slow and gradual shift, not an instant copy.

01:34:32.000 Because then it's like a ship of Theseus thing, where maybe our consciousness is the actual impulses in our brain, but is the combination of all of them slowly being changed over time that gives us the experience of self.

01:34:43.000 And if we were to copy them all at once, it would just create a separate clone of you with its own version of self.

01:34:49.000 That's my intuition.

01:34:51.000 I don't have any kind of, you know, any kind of a deeper understanding.

01:34:54.000 There's also the question of whether consciousness is really dependent upon the whole human sensorium, you know, the whole setup, that it's not just some sort of a, it can't exist in a kind of vacuum.

01:35:08.000 It has to have the whole body.

01:35:09.000 The physical experience.

01:35:12.000 Yeah, the whole human's perceptual sensorium and setup.

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01:36:35.000 Tim Jake says, my wife and I had Cousin T's biscuits for the first time this weekend.

01:36:39.000 Great stuff!

01:36:40.000 Shout out to Cousin T. Yeah, I was impressed.

01:36:43.000 He came by and made some pancakes.

01:36:45.000 We filmed a commercial, and it was actually pretty impressive.

01:36:49.000 Alright.

01:36:49.000 Devin Evans says, how long do you think Biden will last before Kamala takes over?

01:36:54.000 Also, shout out to my gaming channel Snave Gaming.

01:36:59.000 I don't know, man.

01:37:01.000 I feel like Biden's at the point where he may just not wake up one day.

01:37:04.000 Like, we're...

01:37:06.000 Listen to the guy.

01:37:07.000 Did you guys see the commercial he did of the, uh, why the Superbowl or why your snacks are smaller this time around during the Superbowl or whatever?

01:37:15.000 Yeah.

01:37:16.000 He shrinks.

01:37:17.000 He can't speak.

01:37:18.000 Yeah.

01:37:18.000 He can't speak anymore.

01:37:20.000 A few years ago, we pulled the video from when he was running in 2020 and he was talking.

01:37:25.000 Now, he talks like this.

01:37:30.000 And it's like, whoa, he's at the point where one day he goes to bed.

01:37:33.000 He just does not wake up.

01:37:35.000 I mean, that's a real possibility with someone at his age, you know?

01:37:38.000 But as you know, then, when the smoke turns red at the White House, that means they've selected a new president.

01:37:43.000 Yes.

01:37:44.000 Kamala comes bursting through the door, it was me!

01:37:47.000 No, I think that she, I think there is a chance that Biden You know, has to step out of the way.

01:37:54.000 Obviously, a more compassionate team around him would say, you should enjoy your sunset years here.

01:37:59.000 You're not doing so well.

01:38:00.000 But I don't think they want Kamala.

01:38:03.000 So I think they'd rather keep him in the form he is than have her, which must be a really big insult to her.

01:38:07.000 Like if you're Kamala Harris, and she's like this guy, what what are we doing?

01:38:11.000 All right.

01:38:12.000 TheBlackPearl says, I know my profile looks biased.

01:38:15.000 I saw your show last week where y'all mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean, but the second and third movies actually have a lot of depth and ties to the first themes and messages.

01:38:22.000 The fifth was more spectacle.

01:38:23.000 I will give you the very simple version as to why Pirates sucked.

01:38:27.000 The first movie is amazing and is one of the best movies ever.

01:38:31.000 It really is.

01:38:32.000 Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one, wow.

01:38:33.000 Talk about so epic.

01:38:35.000 The second movie has no story.

01:38:37.000 There's no ending.

01:38:39.000 Have a nice day.

01:38:39.000 And the third movie brings back a character who's dead, ruining the story from the first one, so I just pretend like those don't exist.

01:38:47.000 Geoffrey Rush's death in the first one was so perfectly- It was awesome!

01:38:52.000 He's like, after all that, you wasted your one shot.

01:38:54.000 He didn't waste it, and then he cuts his hand and drops the coin in.

01:38:58.000 I feel cold?

01:38:58.000 And then, what did he say?

01:38:59.000 And then he just drops dead?

01:39:01.000 Awesome.

01:39:01.000 Then they bring him back, and it's like... But the second movie had no ending!

01:39:05.000 It was like, there's a chest for some reason, and it's got a heart in it, and then there's fighting and shenanigans and the movie ends.

01:39:12.000 Like, the first one was slowly uncovering the story, introducing you to the characters.

01:39:16.000 The second one was just, like, shenanigans ensues, and then the movie is over.

01:39:21.000 I think, like, Jack almost, like, he gets eaten.

01:39:23.000 I'm like, what's the conflict?

01:39:24.000 What's the resolution?

01:39:26.000 So the reason why I like the Marvel movies better, not anymore, is that they're all standalone.

01:39:31.000 Iron Man 2.

01:39:33.000 Here's Tony Stark.

01:39:34.000 Here's what happened after this happened.

01:39:35.000 Introducing a new conflict.

01:39:37.000 A guy his family betrayed, wants revenge, develops a weapon, comes to the United States, teams up with one of his enemies, and now there's a story, conflict, resolution, completion.

01:39:47.000 Iron Man 3.

01:39:48.000 Same thing.

01:39:49.000 Another guy who Tony Stark had wronged.

01:39:52.000 So the Marvel movies were creating this long, overarching narrative while giving you complete stories with a conflict and a resolution.

01:39:58.000 And pirates, none of them had any.

01:40:00.000 I think Dead Men Tell No Tales was pretty good because it had introduction to characters, conflict, and a resolution.

01:40:09.000 Anyway, I digress.

01:40:10.000 All right.

01:40:11.000 The Emperor's Champion says, to quote a comment on Styx's video about Biden, you don't have to be a doctor to see what's wrong with Biden, but you do have to be a Democrat to deny it.

01:40:19.000 Yep.

01:40:22.000 Yep.

01:40:22.000 Oh, man.

01:40:24.000 Kale says, I see RFK Jr.

01:40:26.000 doesn't mind using TimCast News to help boost his campaign on X. Wonder why he doesn't have the courage to come on IRL.

01:40:32.000 Vake had the balls to come on multiple times. 0.64

01:40:34.000 Yeah, I don't know. 0.96

01:40:36.000 No idea.

01:40:37.000 We have tried to book him a couple times, and it just doesn't ever happen.

01:40:42.000 No idea.

01:40:44.000 But here's what happens.

01:40:45.000 Whenever these narratives come up where it's like, they won't come on the show, they end up being like, oh, we'll come on the show.

01:40:49.000 Yeah, right.

01:40:50.000 Because I tweeted about how we invite Democrats and leftists all the time, they just won't do it.

01:40:54.000 And I mentioned on Twitter, like Marianne Williamson has actually been invited several times, even emailed us and then she didn't.

01:40:59.000 And then are people like, no, no, no, she's coming.

01:41:01.000 She's coming on the show.

01:41:02.000 And then she did.

01:41:02.000 So you have to shame them into it.

01:41:05.000 I mean, I mean, it's I guess.

01:41:08.000 But I think it's because Look, there's no reality in which a leftist comes on the show and we don't shatter their narrative.

01:41:16.000 Right.

01:41:16.000 Because they live in a fake world.

01:41:18.000 And they know it.

01:41:19.000 They have to have that cult lie in order to maintain the false reality they know they live in.

01:41:28.000 Just go to anyone who's uploaded videos and read the comments and you're like, how could they possibly think these things?

01:41:33.000 They don't read the news!

01:41:35.000 They don't read the news.

01:41:37.000 All right.

01:41:38.000 Kaba says the Super Bowl was rigged.

01:41:40.000 KC offensive tackles blatantly held at least 7-8 times, no call.

01:41:45.000 At least 4-5 non-call DPIs on KC, too.

01:41:49.000 Refs were the same heavily scrutinized crew from 4 years ago.

01:41:54.000 Pfizer boy T-Swift shenanigans.

01:41:56.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:41:58.000 You can't make someone catch a ball, but you could call a penalty or something and say, no, no, we gotta go long, and then you can make it happen.

01:42:07.000 And again, I encourage people to look up that viral story of the guy tackling the wrong dude.

01:42:13.000 The guy with the footballs running at him, and the guy just goes left.

01:42:18.000 And a lot of people are like, it's because he's blocking the outside and he was supposed to have someone behind him, and it's like, dude.

01:42:22.000 That doesn't make sense.

01:42:23.000 Even the sports commentators were like, what did he just do?

01:42:28.000 And people were like, it wasn't in the script, he wasn't supposed to do it.

01:42:30.000 It paid off.

01:42:32.000 Yeah, yep.

01:42:33.000 Dave Collins says, Phil, when will the new All That Remains album be released?

01:42:37.000 New record in the summer, new music last week of March, first week of April, something like that.

01:42:43.000 Nice.

01:42:44.000 Soon.

01:42:45.000 Federale Actual with some fightin' words for the doctor here.

01:42:49.000 He says, vote for Josh Smith and Clint Russell 2024.

01:42:53.000 That's, I mean, yeah, okay, good for you, but I mean, look, the Mises Caucus has endorsed me and Clint Russell, not Josh.

01:43:03.000 And, you know, Josh made a few prevarications in his appearance here, including the idea that he almost raises as much money as me.

01:43:13.000 Try one-tenth.

01:43:14.000 So, and, you know, we have the momentum, and no, it's not going to happen.

01:43:21.000 I've heard from some people that they want RFK to take the nomination because it'll put the LP over the 5% threshold or whatever.

01:43:29.000 Yeah, I mean, but it would ruin the party.

01:43:31.000 It'd basically turn the LP into the Democratic Party of the 1960s.

01:43:36.000 It would turn the LP into the other party.

01:43:39.000 It would just be literally other.

01:43:40.000 Yeah, right.

01:43:41.000 You could rent out the LP to somebody, but then if they wreck the house while they're in it, that's a problem.

01:43:49.000 No name says Biden won't take a cognitive test because it would trigger the 25th Amendment.

01:43:53.000 He has to reject the nomination, like LBJ, or resign.

01:43:56.000 25th will soil his legacy.

01:43:58.000 I don't think the 25th doesn't trigger without people actually saying hey.

01:44:04.000 You know, so someone has to do it.

01:44:04.000 Right.

01:44:05.000 The vice president would have to do it, but if he takes a cognitive test and fails, Kamala would be pressured to do it. 0.99

01:44:10.000 She could do it whenever she wants. 1.00

01:44:11.000 She could do it right now.

01:44:12.000 She doesn't want to.

01:44:14.000 What if something crazy happened, like Biden runs into the street to push a kid out of the way of a car and gets hit or something?

01:44:20.000 Something crazy like Biden run?

01:44:21.000 Biden stumbles off his bike and somehow saves a child.

01:44:26.000 He went out like a hero.

01:44:27.000 He'd try and run and then he'd fall and then he'd break something and he'd die and Kamala Harris would be the president. 0.98

01:44:32.000 Taken out by his arch nemesis, the stairs.

01:44:34.000 That's right.

01:44:35.000 Rock Braz says, the right lost the opportunity to highlight how Taylor chose a very alpha male as a boyfriend.

01:44:40.000 Another case of woke for you, but not for me.

01:44:43.000 He is a white cis male football superstar. 0.83

01:44:45.000 Everything the left should hate. 0.89

01:44:47.000 Yep.

01:44:48.000 And even Matt Walsh was like, there are so many other people to criticize in pop music.

01:44:53.000 Why are you going after Taylor Swift?

01:44:55.000 It makes no sense.

01:44:56.000 Yep.

01:44:58.000 I, dude.

01:45:00.000 Plus, she's really leading this America First culture right now. 0.97

01:45:03.000 She went from dating all these, like, moody British guys, and now she's dating this athletic American guy.

01:45:08.000 I'm sorry, I think that's a good narrative here.

01:45:10.000 There is a, uh... I'll keep it light.

01:45:15.000 But I'm friends with some of these guys, we've had them on the show several times, who keep pushing the Taylor Swift narrative, and the actual, like, anti-establishment Republicans are freaking out over it, and they're mad.

01:45:27.000 They're like, they're sabotaging us on purpose, I don't understand why they're doing this.

01:45:30.000 And it's like, there's no way they don't know they're doing it.

01:45:33.000 But they keep doing it.

01:45:35.000 And so it's really, really pissing off the Republicans we like.

01:45:42.000 C'est la vie!

01:45:42.000 Yeah.

01:45:43.000 For me, I'm kind of like, wow.

01:45:45.000 If they want to run with this narrative, then Trump deserves to lose.

01:45:51.000 It's crazy. 0.99

01:45:52.000 Because the people who are working to try and close the border and do the good things are like, holy crap, we are going to lose suburban women over this. 1.00

01:45:58.000 It's absurd. 0.98

01:45:58.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:45:59.000 Yeah, it's literally what you're doing.

01:46:02.000 You're doing things that make Like, make the right and conservatives even more offensive to liberal women from Southern Connecticut. 1.00

01:46:15.000 Okay?

01:46:16.000 They drive- It's not just that, it's Virginia.

01:46:18.000 It's Loudoun County, and people are like, you're never gonna win a Swifty over. 0.78

01:46:21.000 Those are the same people.

01:46:22.000 No one's talking about winning over a 19-year-old sorority girl.

01:46:26.000 They're talking about the 34-year-old mom in the suburbs of Loudoun County who just watched everything go down in their schools, and they put on Taylor Swift with their 7-year-old daughter, and they're dancing in the living room, and then they see on the news that Trump supporters think she's working for the Pentagon. 0.97

01:46:41.000 And they're like, these people are absolutely psychopaths.

01:46:44.000 And so what they're doing is they're voting for anyone else. 0.98

01:46:46.000 They're going in the polls, and they're saying, I don't want Trump or Biden.

01:46:49.000 The Trump people think Taylor Swift works for the government.

01:46:51.000 Joe Biden can't run the country.

01:46:53.000 Give me RFK Jr., I guess.

01:46:54.000 And I would like them to vote for Michael Recktenwald, but they're not going to because they want safety, not liberty.

01:46:58.000 But the bigger issue is is the Republicans in Congress.

01:47:02.000 And these are the ones who are who are like.

01:47:05.000 They've actually... I want to be very careful when I say this because I don't want to out anybody who's expressing private concerns and cause problems where they get into these flame wars on Twitter, on X, but they're like, hey, I have to run in these areas and now I have to deal with why do my people and the guy I support, why are they claiming Taylor Swift works for the Pentagon?

01:47:27.000 And it's like, what do you say when you're at a rally and they're like, you guys are a bunch of psychopaths who think Taylor Swift works for the Pentagon.

01:47:32.000 And then this congressman's like, we don't think that at all.

01:47:35.000 We don't.

01:47:35.000 We're so sorry.

01:47:36.000 We're so sorry.

01:47:37.000 Yeah, but you've got insert person, insert person.

01:47:40.000 And even Donald Trump came out and is talking about it now.

01:47:42.000 And it's like, And then the response you get from these people on Twitter is, Swifties, we're never gonna vote for Trump anyway.

01:47:49.000 Yeah, okay.

01:47:51.000 The moms of Loudoun County are not diehard Swifties.

01:47:54.000 They're moms who are like, why is my daughter complaining? 1.00

01:47:57.000 Like, my daughter came to me, she's 15, and she's like, Trump thinks Taylor Swift works for the CIA?

01:48:03.000 What is going on?

01:48:04.000 It'll be just as simple as, why are Trump fans mean to Taylor?

01:48:08.000 Yep, yeah.

01:48:09.000 Just that simple.

01:48:10.000 Why are Trump fans so mean to her? 0.99

01:48:11.000 He hates women.

01:48:12.000 Why are they freaking out? 1.00

01:48:13.000 Yeah, why are they crazy? 0.84

01:48:14.000 It's very uncool, quite crazy. 0.59

01:48:16.000 So the psy-op narrative is a psy-op in itself.

01:48:19.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:48:20.000 The only way they actually benefit from the Taylor Swift endorsement is if Trump supporters declare war on Taylor Swift, creating conflict.

01:48:28.000 C'est la vie!

01:48:29.000 Alright, T-Rex Pet Shop says, What's going on with James Lindsay?

01:48:33.000 He's been going off the rails criticizing conservatives.

01:48:36.000 How does he expect to get people to work with him?

01:48:38.000 He needs to meet them where they are.

01:48:39.000 He needs to chill out.

01:48:41.000 So James Lindsay lately has been concerned with essentially the Christian nationalists, the people that are on the religious right that think that this is an opening for the resurgence of a pious Christian majority in America.

01:48:58.000 But the problem is there is not a Christian majority in America anymore.

01:49:02.000 Certainly not a pious one.

01:49:03.000 But I'm gonna have to agree with T-Rex on this one.

01:49:05.000 That may be the case, but James Lindsay's posts have become just, like, unreadable to me.

01:49:10.000 He's always been the kind of dude that puts people off on Twitter.

01:49:13.000 No, no.

01:49:15.000 Look, James can post an interesting thread on, like, DEI, Marxism, the origins of critical race theory, but when I go on Instagram and there's ten posts in a row that just keep saying the same thing over and over again, I'm like, mute!

01:49:28.000 Like, I get it, bro, you don't like Christian nationalism, but it's not an issue.

01:49:33.000 It's, like, not happening at all.

01:49:36.000 And it's like he's, you know, I feel like...

01:49:39.000 What, did a bunch of Christian nationalists tweet at him and now he lives in that world where it's the only thing he sees?

01:49:44.000 Well, essentially his take is they are two sides of the same coin.

01:49:50.000 He calls the Christian nationalists the right hand of the left.

01:49:51.000 the he calls the Christian nationalists the right hand of the left and

01:49:55.000 essentially they're doing that they are identity politics on the other side

01:49:59.000 right so dialect so that his deal is it's a dialectical relationship

01:50:05.000 relationship between one produces the other I am not concerned with the raving lunatic outside the White House banging on the fence. 0.94

01:50:11.000 I'm concerned with the raving lunatic who can't speak properly inside of it. 0.94

01:50:14.000 And so what my view is, this is not an issue. 0.91

01:50:19.000 Christian nationalism.

01:50:21.000 It would be like going on Twitter and complaining about, you know, Buddhist fundamentalists. 0.92

01:50:26.000 I'd be like, okay.

01:50:27.000 It's a boogeyman.

01:50:28.000 There's nothing there. 0.85

01:50:29.000 I mean, there were Buddhists getting violent, fighting with Muslims, and everyone's like, you're supposed to be peaceful, and they're like, we're being killed.

01:50:35.000 And if someone started tweeting incessantly about Buddhist fundamentalists, I'd be like, I'm gonna have to go ahead and meet you, buddy, because this is so immaterial to anything that's going on right now in any of our crises, I don't see the point in actually saying it 50-57 times in one day.

01:50:50.000 He's also saying that national divorce would be a national suicide.

01:50:53.000 He is correct about that.

01:50:54.000 Yeah, I agree with James Lenzan so much.

01:50:56.000 I just think, like, what, did a bunch of Christian nationalists tweet him to the point where he got really annoyed and then started talking about it non-stop?

01:51:01.000 He thought they were, yeah, he thought that he, they're way over-represented in his feed, most likely, and that led him to believe that they're really, some really large contingent in society.

01:51:12.000 Yeah, and there's like, there's, but there's also needless animosity between Allied, aligned ideologies.

01:51:22.000 I mean, sort of, because the Christian nationalists, or the Christians that are actually taking issue with... I'm not talking about that, though.

01:51:33.000 I'm talking about Carl Benjamin.

01:51:35.000 Oh, yeah, the fighting with Carl, yeah, okay.

01:51:37.000 Like, for literally no reason, you're getting into a fight with someone like Carl.

01:51:42.000 It's a turf battle, then.

01:51:43.000 That's what that is.

01:51:47.000 Between the two of them, I'll be like, Carl Benjamin saying we should have a reasonable debate and argument over this, and James will be like, I'm gonna block you.

01:51:54.000 James loses all of it.

01:51:56.000 All I see from James is he... I'm like, why did you block Carl Benjamin?

01:52:00.000 And there was a recent post I saw...

01:52:02.000 Where Carl said, anti-communist in effect doesn't really mean much, and then he goes on to list a bunch of really awful people who are anti-communist, like fascists and dictators and things like that.

01:52:10.000 And James's response was something to the effect of, this is why I blocked the guy.

01:52:15.000 And I'm like, I don't understand, that's an interesting point of conversation.

01:52:19.000 The merit of being simply anti-communist versus the nuance of, were dictators and authoritarians also claiming to be anti-communist is a good conversation to have.

01:52:28.000 So that's why I'm kind of like, I see Carl Benjamin's posts and I go, interesting, interesting point.

01:52:33.000 I see James Lindsay's posts as of recent and I'm like, that was a waste of my time.

01:52:37.000 C'est la vie though.

01:52:39.000 I agree with James on most things.

01:52:40.000 Thing's a good dude, but I'm not into whatever he's going off on these days.

01:52:45.000 But again, like, Christian nationalism, sure.

01:52:48.000 Identitarian or identity-based or moralistic national stuff.

01:52:54.000 I still gotta say, I think a Christian moral framework for this country is substantially better than anything the woke or liberals have brought to the table.

01:53:06.000 I think a fine balance between Christian moral values with secular liberalism, which we had in the 90s, would work so long as Christians didn't let all of this stuff, you know, happen.

01:53:19.000 It's a complicated topic, to be completely honest.

01:53:21.000 Yeah, I mean, the thing that Jim is looking for right now, he says that it's a combination of Jerusalem and Rome and the sensibilities of the British or the English Enlightenment, and that's essentially the recipe for the West.

01:53:39.000 So, like, I think that A liberal government is compatible with Christianity.

01:53:46.000 I think that it's not compatible with other religions, but I think that it's compatible with Christianity.

01:53:52.000 So he's advocating for an Enlightenment-era ideas, philosophies, and politics?

01:53:56.000 He's advocating for the Enlightenment, yes, over things like socialism, which is a counter-Enlightenment philosophy.

01:54:04.000 He's talking about Christian nationalism.

01:54:08.000 Well, he's fighting with the Christian Nationalists, because the Christian Nationalists, like I said, are essentially the right hand of the left.

01:54:14.000 They have leftist ideas, they're doing leftist behavior, and that's what the... because essentially they're like the Nazi kind of guys, is the long and short of it.

01:54:23.000 But that's not... but that's just wrong.

01:54:25.000 There certainly are, but there are people who are like, this country is built on a Christian moral framework and it should be a nationalist country, and saying Christian nationalists are like Nazis is like saying someone who is white and a nationalist is a white nationalist.

01:54:37.000 So the people that are Christian nationalists tend to be the people that are also the Catholic groipers and stuff like that? 0.97

01:54:44.000 So they are That kind of attitude.

01:54:47.000 That's not to say all nationalists or all Christians are the people he's referring to.

01:54:53.000 You're talking about, there's one guy in particular, Richard Wolfe, I think is the guy's name, who wrote a book and they have like... The Marxist guy?

01:55:00.000 No, he's... That's another one, yeah.

01:55:02.000 Yeah, that's his name.

01:55:02.000 Yeah, Richard Wolfe.

01:55:05.000 Yeah, he's the Marxist guy.

01:55:06.000 It's a different one.

01:55:07.000 There's two of them.

01:55:08.000 There's a right-wing one and a left-wing one? 0.57

01:55:11.000 Oh my god!

01:55:12.000 And they talk about a Christian prince and a theocratic Christianity, so it's beyond just Christians. 0.90

01:55:18.000 They're talking about having a theocracy in the United States that is based on, you know, a Christian theocracy. 1.00

01:55:25.000 So the point there is, that is so niche and immaterial to public conversation and the current goings-on, it would be like talking about It's like talking about how many angels you can fit on the head of a pin while the barbarians are at the gate. 0.83

01:55:39.000 But the problem is the same problem that you have with communists and the liberals.

01:55:46.000 The liberals think that the extremists, the communists, are just progressives, and they think that they actually share a lot of the same ideas.

01:55:54.000 There are similar things going on with the Christians and Christian nationalists saying, no, we're just Christian We're Catholics like the rest of you Catholics, but they're actually authoritarians, they want to have a theocracy, it's illiberal stuff.

01:56:10.000 Let's be real.

01:56:11.000 So that's what he's up against now.

01:56:14.000 Let's grab some more Super Chats.

01:56:16.000 All right, where do we go?

01:56:19.000 Dr. Tran says, there is no market in being safe and feeling afraid.

01:56:24.000 We all should, but you can't sell that.

01:56:28.000 Okay, apropos what?

01:56:32.000 Joe Spinell says Libertarians need to run like Republicans and govern like Libertarians.

01:56:37.000 I wonder what that would look like.

01:56:37.000 That's interesting.

01:56:39.000 Lie in our campaigning?

01:56:44.000 Lie in your campaigning?

01:56:45.000 Yeah.

01:56:47.000 I mean, I don't think Republicans are doing too well in terms of running anyway.

01:56:50.000 Yeah, I don't know why we should model ourselves after them.

01:56:52.000 them. I think they should model themselves after us and have some principles.

01:57:08.000 I said this today, there are people that need to chill out with the whole religious stuff.

01:57:15.000 I said this today on PCC.

01:57:16.000 If you're going to say that Ice Spice is an agent of the devil because she was putting up the devil horns, then you're looking at an agent of the devil. 1.00

01:57:25.000 Because for 20 years I've been on stage screaming, get your horns in the air! 0.98

01:57:30.000 So you admit it, you're an agent of the devil. 0.97

01:57:32.000 So call me an agent of the devil, but guess what? 0.98

01:57:35.000 You're overdoing it.

01:57:37.000 You're stepping out of reality.

01:57:40.000 It is just a pose.

01:57:42.000 And I feel like Ice Spice is such an industry plant that she doesn't know what she's wearing, she doesn't know what she's doing. 1.00

01:57:48.000 Someone else picked out every accessory she wore.

01:57:51.000 I don't think she's great, I don't think she's a role model for your children, but let's not clutch our pearls too soon.

01:57:56.000 But yeah, I mean, it is, like, people are seeing this and freaking out and stuff.

01:57:59.000 But to confirm, Phil is an agent of the devil.

01:58:01.000 You can call me what you want, but I mean, if that's an issue for you, there are literally thousands and thousands of pictures on the internet of me, with my hands in the air, like, with the horns, saying, get your horns in the air, I can't hear you.

01:58:16.000 So... Slowbrain says, here's five bucks, but I'll never buy another song.

01:58:20.000 Was promised discounted coffee, but did not and will not receive it.

01:58:24.000 Disappointed.

01:58:25.000 Well, I have this to say.

01:58:27.000 When we did the promo on Together Again, we said everybody who bought it would get a discount code for coffee.

01:58:32.000 Several people had their discount codes go to their spam folders.

01:58:36.000 We received multiple emails from the same people who, in error, did not realize what was supposed to happen.

01:58:44.000 And so what we decided to do was, for anyone who genuinely didn't receive it, or who didn't understand how they were supposed to receive it, we issued an additional code, bonus code, to all of these people once again.

01:58:57.000 Still, there are some people who didn't get it.

01:58:59.000 At a certain point, there's only so much we can do.

01:59:02.000 If you didn't get it, I have no idea what happened, but we sent out two codes to everybody who wrote in saying they didn't get it, and if you still didn't get it, I guess we could send you another one, but it's like...

01:59:13.000 I don't know what to tell you. You know what I mean? Like, I feel limited in what we can do.

01:59:18.000 The first code was attached with the song download when you bought it.

01:59:22.000 We then emailed people the code. I think we actually sent out the code.

01:59:26.000 We may have sent it to everybody, just emailed them outright, like, here's the code.

01:59:30.000 Then we created a second code to make sure everyone got it and emailed that one out to

01:59:35.000 everyone who bought the song saying, here's a code that will work as well.

01:59:39.000 And, uh, it's... sometimes it happens, I guess.

01:59:42.000 But I do appreciate the super chat.

01:59:43.000 Sorry that happened to you.

01:59:45.000 Can't do anything about it, I guess.

01:59:48.000 Alright, let's, uh, here we go.

01:59:49.000 Dave Collins says, the legacy media companies are probably replacing their journalists with chat GPT, and that is true.

01:59:55.000 That's probably true.

01:59:57.000 Yep.

01:59:58.000 Eman says, what up Tim?

02:00:00.000 0% unemployment rate is undesired as it requires an inflexible labor market.

02:00:03.000 I've read an ideal unemployment rate is between 2-4% makes sense.

02:00:07.000 If a company needs to hire somebody but there's no one, everyone's employed, they can't hire anybody.

02:00:11.000 You do want some unemployment so that people are moving around.

02:00:15.000 That makes a lot of sense.

02:00:17.000 Alright, I think we'll grab one more quick super chat here.

02:00:21.000 Jason Hutchinson says the United States' theocracy is the Declaration of Independence.

02:00:26.000 Well, there you go.

02:00:28.000 Here you go, one more.

02:00:29.000 Siloy says, Tim, the video game you've got to play that addresses your split consciousness idea is Soma.

02:00:34.000 It also covers simulation theory in the post-apocalypse and AI.

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02:00:56.000 The world is changing in the United States for transgender youth. 0.99

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02:01:07.000 It's like a mainstream thing.

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