On this week s episode of the Timestamps, we recap the Super Bowl, talk about Joe Biden s broken brain, and discuss the possibility of a Kamala Harris run for president in 2020. Plus, we hear from Dr. Michael Recktenwald, who says he's ready to step up to the plate.
00:00:31.000And 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.
00:00:43.000And 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.
00:01:26.000Because, you know, his brain's broken.
00:01:28.000So 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.
00:01:37.000It 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.
00:01:47.000Vance 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.
00:01:59.000I gotta be honest, it's a bad thing, but kind of a good sign they expect Trump to win.
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00:04:58.000I 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.
00:05:21.000I 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.
00:05:30.000And, 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.
00:05:42.000They just keep running with it and getting as many views as possible.
00:05:45.000And the media is laughing all the way to the bank as they try and politicize Taylor Swift's fan base.
00:05:50.000Which is crazy because she's going to save our birthright.
00:05:53.000I mean, Taylor Swift ushering in a new era of making marriage cool again, making commitment and families great.
00:05:58.000She went to the Super Bowl with Blake Lively, who's married to Ryan Reynolds and has like four kids.
00:06:03.000I 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.
00:06:12.000But I actually didn't watch the Super Bowl at all.
00:06:13.000So I didn't say I was super dedicated to it.
00:06:16.000I 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.
00:06:29.000I think that that's a terrible, terrible thing, but just because it's bad for America.
00:06:37.000Look, I'm very, very adamant about the fact that the goal in the culture war is not to defeat people that disagree with you.
00:06:46.000It's to convince them to come to your side.
00:06:49.000When 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.
00:07:07.000I 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.
00:08:43.000I do not want to talk about Taylor Swift.
00:08:45.000Anyway, back to Joe Biden and the memes.
00:08:47.000I 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.
00:08:55.000Well, you know, I mean, the theory is they're trying to use Swift to garner votes for Biden.
00:09:00.000Also Swift and Kelsey to sell the vaccines.
00:09:11.000It'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.
00:09:20.000A company is trying to advertise a product.
00:09:21.000The NFL is trying to advertise the NFL to a younger audience who they're losing.
00:09:26.000Taylor Swift got a whole bunch of Gen Z and young women to watch the Super Bowl.
00:09:30.000They 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.
00:09:40.000All 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.
00:09:59.000Whatever 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.
00:10:36.000I'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.
00:11:22.000So 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.
00:11:33.000Although I did, you could maybe add like a 2.5 because I said that Taylor Swift would look all panicked.
00:11:38.000But 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.
00:11:44.000I don't know a lot about football, all I know is that they ended up winning.
00:11:47.000And 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.
00:12:02.000I'm willing to bet Taylor Swift is there.
00:12:04.000I think she'll probably go with Kelsey and that will be their PR opportunity and press event.
00:12:09.000That 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.
00:12:23.000Again, 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.
00:12:30.000They'd have to plan around Taylor Swift.
00:12:31.000What 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.
00:12:40.000I don't think she's going to get super political.
00:12:41.000I don't think she's going to endorse this year.
00:12:46.000They'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.
00:12:55.000They'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.
00:13:09.000I 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.
00:13:16.000So it was a big show of coming out being like, no, no, I support the right guy.
00:13:20.000Like she released that one song where it was like way late to the like, you know, gay rights and gay marriage initiative.
00:13:44.000In my opinion, I lean towards the NFL's rate.
00:13:47.000Rigged 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.
00:14:30.000And the only thing I hear from all of them was that it was rigged.
00:14:33.000Because 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.
00:14:41.000And so they all think it's scripted, it's rigged or whatever.
00:14:44.000Look at the Ravens' history against the Patriots.
00:14:48.000Or at least not, at least not, not... But this year you're talking about?
00:14:51.000Maybe, no, no, I'm talking about just historically the Ravens against the Patriots.
00:14:53.000So, 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.
00:15:06.000And there's even that viral video, I don't know which team it was,
00:15:10.000I think it's the Chiefs from October, where one player is running towards,
00:15:17.000all I know is the player got the ball, one player runs and then turns left
00:16:24.000I 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.
00:17:15.000The 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.
00:17:34.000However, Rand Paul is in a filibuster right now to try and block it, but Here we go.
00:17:52.000Well, 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.
00:18:00.000So they also buried an impeachment clause in this bill, that if the president doesn't follow through with his funding, he's impeached.
00:18:21.000Because why else would you have to bury that clause there if you thought Joe Biden was going to be there?
00:18:24.000Yeah, 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.
00:18:35.000Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure they are.
00:18:37.000I 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.
00:18:46.000But 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
00:19:12.000Like, the Rubicon has been crossed forever now.
00:19:15.000Impeachment is a new political tool that's going to be used every chance that whatever side gets, this is the new normal.
00:19:24.000Politics in the US is not going to get better.
00:19:48.000Yeah, but I agree with your sentiment.
00:19:50.000It'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.
00:19:57.000How fast things degrade does matter, yes.
00:19:58.000Yeah, 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.
00:20:29.000But 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.
00:20:43.000And away from this authoritarian layer upon layer of the state.
00:20:48.000Kennedy, even, you know, Kennedy's supposed to be this, you know, dissident, but he's all about adding more bureaucratic layers to the state.
00:21:07.000I 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.
00:21:16.000He'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.
00:21:26.000was not running, the Libertarian Party might actually crack double digits.
00:21:31.000And he's coming to our convention in California where I'll be debating him.
00:23:08.000What he wants to do is put, he wants to, you know, he's all about regulation, right?
00:23:13.000So 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.
00:23:55.000The federal government has constitutional restrictions, and one of those is that the federal government has to do certain things like defend states from invasion.
00:24:57.000But this is one of the things the Libertarian Party has fractured over.
00:25:00.000I 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.
00:25:12.000There 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.
00:25:25.000What they do, this is actually the default libertarian position.
00:25:30.000They equate the movement of goods, capital, with the movement of people.
00:25:35.000And they say they're the same, so if goods are free to cross borders, then people should be without restrictions.
00:25:41.000But there's a difference between people and goods.
00:25:51.000If goods are purchased, they have been invited into the country.
00:25:54.000That's different than people just on their own volition entering the country.
00:26:00.000Yeah, open borders basically means you don't have a country at all, and the Constitution requires defense from invasion.
00:26:05.000So, 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.
00:26:21.000Unfortunately, I guess we have a lot, maybe it's too many people?
00:26:26.000So, uh, social order breaks down when a civilization gets too large.
00:26:29.000You know, the question I have is, why does a CBP agent think it is okay to work with cartel members?
00:26:51.000But 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.
00:27:01.000And so the social order breaks down when we separate from our communities.
00:27:04.000That's why I'm for decentralization and localization and getting power away from the federal government as much as
00:27:09.000possible vesting it in the people locally and
00:27:12.000resisting the federal government's incursions against
00:27:18.000against the local people. Do you feel like the libertarian message that
00:27:24.000the message in particular, do you think that message resonates nowadays when
00:27:29.000people'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
00:27:49.000A whole lot about wanting to have liberty, but what they really want is safety.
00:27:53.000And 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.
00:28:54.000I 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.
00:29:12.000Vance's foreign aid bill could get Trump impeached.
00:29:15.000The 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.
00:29:24.000Vance 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.
00:29:36.000That'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.
00:29:47.000The 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.
00:29:57.000They fear, Democrats fear, that if he wins, he will try to shut down the war in Ukraine and bring peace.
00:30:03.000And 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.
00:30:10.000The 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.
00:30:28.000And that means that if Russia says to Trump, OK, As a sign of good faith, as we begin the ceasefire, funding must stop.
00:30:35.000And Trump will go, I can't do that, they'll impeach me.
00:30:38.000Think about what that does to undermine the President's position before he's even spoken a word.
00:30:43.000This 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.
00:31:34.000I 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.
00:31:49.000I don't know how accurate it is, but I think third-party kinesthetes are really interesting because of this.
00:31:55.000It 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.
00:32:05.000Yeah, that's the good thing about this.
00:32:08.000Typically, we've got this one poll from Suffolk that has Biden up 20 points.
00:32:13.000That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:32:14.000They just asked everybody in the White House briefing room.
00:32:18.000But 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%.
00:32:38.000But he was posting something like that on Twitter, that he was a viable third-party candidate at 33%.
00:32:47.000But, 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.
00:32:59.000And the bill was actually funding for Ukraine.
00:33:02.00020 billion went to border amnesty projects, but it wasn't a border security bill.
00:33:07.000Talk about spitting in the face of people being like, you know, the Democrats come out be like, why are Republicans blocking the border bill?
00:33:13.000I'm like, because 80% of it is foreign war funding?
00:33:25.000And 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.
00:33:48.000If Biden just allows the standard amount of illegal immigrants in the country, Trump deports that many.
00:33:56.000So by doing three terms worth, when Trump deports as many as possible, one term's worth.
00:34:02.000They get two full terms of criminal aliens flooding into the country.
00:34:06.000They're not going to do anything to secure the border.
00:34:08.000The Republicans are going to hem and haw and ultimately do nothing to secure the border.
00:34:12.000It 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.
00:35:22.000First, we've got to fix all of our roads, we've got to fix our border, we've got to get rid of unemployment.
00:35:27.000Once 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.
00:35:35.000Once we have solved all of our problems, then, after a vote, we can decide if we do want to send aid to anybody else.
00:35:44.000Two years after the last American committed suicide, then we'll send aid.
00:35:47.000I'm in favor of sending aid after we agree to fix all our problems first.
00:35:51.000There'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.
00:35:59.000Part 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.
00:36:11.000So it's propping up the dollar, so that way the government can use, can print more. So it's literally exporting, it's more
00:36:21.000than just exporting dollars, it's so that way the government can produce more
00:36:26.000dollars which is inflation to you and it costs you money in your bank
00:36:42.000Well, I think there's an easy way to settle that.
00:36:45.000If you want to give money to a foreign country, give it away as an individual or as a group, some sort of charity.
00:36:52.000To 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.
00:37:05.000We got a snowstorm coming up to the nor'easter is about to hit.
00:37:09.000And that means there's going to be some power outages, there's going to be some snow plow requirements, and you know what?
00:37:17.000How about before we give money away, we take care of our own problems as simple as sometimes it snows.
00:37:23.000I 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.
00:37:30.000I'm like, I'll take it one step further.
00:37:32.000We got to pay the snowplow man up in New York before I give money to anybody else.
00:37:37.000How many train derailments are there every year?
00:37:39.000Like there are all kinds of infrastructure, small problems that we have.
00:37:42.000That 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.
00:37:54.000I gotta tell you, I would sooner vote to give the entirety.
00:37:59.000Okay, 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.
00:38:11.000It's gonna either land in the hands of Ukrainians or just Ian Crosland.
00:38:23.000A single random American should have that money before we give it away to a foreign country.
00:38:27.000More importantly, it should be redistributed back to the people for whom it was taken from.
00:38:32.000I 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.
00:38:42.000We need to, we can't just like be like end all foreign aid and blah blah blah.
00:38:47.000You have to first, you have to get rid of some of the dollars that are in circulation.
00:38:53.000You have to get rid of those before you start doing the whole stop this.
00:38:57.000You 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
00:39:24.000We 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.
00:39:44.000But 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.
00:39:56.000Bitcoin has blasted off in the past two days.
00:39:58.000I 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.
00:40:17.000Just, 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.
00:40:27.000I mean, if you're a citizen of El Salvador, you must be jumping up and down when Bitcoin's now at 50K.
00:40:34.000This means that your country's net worth is just skyrocketing, their capability to import goods, fix the roads, do all these really great things.
00:40:42.000I'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.
00:40:54.000But I think that kind of success does open a lot of regular Americans' minds to the possibility that these things have.
00:41:01.000I 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.
00:41:34.000Yeah, I think that stuff like Bitcoin is a great idea.
00:41:39.000Obviously, the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve System is unreliable.
00:41:45.000The 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.
00:41:55.0004% inflation is It's too much, it's bad.
00:41:59.000Also, I don't think that that's actually calculated the way they used to.
00:42:05.000They'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.
00:42:21.000I 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.
00:42:36.000Just 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?
00:43:16.000They felt like they were used as tools.
00:43:19.000They saw what the American regime and empire is about and they turned against it.
00:43:24.000Or, 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.
00:43:34.000This is the fascinating thing about anarchy and anarchists.
00:43:38.000Typically, 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.
00:43:44.000And so, I've had these discussions with the quote-unquote leftist anarchists.
00:43:53.000Well, 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?
00:44:04.000So 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.
00:44:58.000I love this from the Wall Street Journal.
00:45:00.000Kamala Harris says she is ready to serve as Biden faces age scrutiny.
00:45:05.000In a recent interview, the vice president cites her capacity to lead after stops on her abortion rights tour.
00:45:12.000And 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.
00:45:45.000Well, 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.
00:45:57.000Maybe this is what she's been laughing about all this time, you know, for no reason, like a hyena.
00:46:02.000What 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?
00:46:47.000And right now, the betting odds suggest that is likely the case.
00:46:51.000I mean, Biden is dropping precipitously, Michelle Obama skyrocketing, people are starting to be like, I don't think Joe Biden's gonna make it.
00:46:58.000Like, 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.
00:48:18.000We 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.
00:49:03.000I 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.
00:49:09.000And it would cost like five bucks and that's 15.
00:49:12.000And I'm like, wow, we would buy a bunch of them and put them downstairs in the green room
00:50:28.000Basically, 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.
00:50:36.000Then you're hearing in New York they're giving hotel rooms to illegal immigrants?
00:50:39.000I'd just straight up be like, we're gonna flip that around.
00:50:41.000Gen 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.
00:50:55.000Yeah, I mean, basically, I run on principles, so yeah.
00:51:01.000I'm not gonna steal something from somebody to give it to somebody else.
00:51:04.000However, 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.
00:52:00.000But it's so much worse than just voting to rob people.
00:52:03.000Because 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.
00:52:13.000Just let him crash here for a little bit, he'll pitch in, and you go, okay, fine, whatever.
00:52:17.000The 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.
00:52:26.000And 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.
00:52:32.000That's what's happening to this country.
00:52:33.000And 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.
00:52:44.000They don't need them to vote, they just need them to be there for the census.
00:52:58.000I 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.
00:53:28.000You need one for all the cultural stuff.
00:53:30.000You need one for foreign spending and one for domestic, like, bloat.
00:53:33.000And then you have to very calmly just...
00:53:36.000Yeah, there's some things you can't cut, except that you have to get at them where they meet the state.
00:53:42.000And 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.
00:54:24.000Again, another problem that the libertarians have is there is a significant portion of the workforce that is employed by the federal government.
00:54:36.000I don't know exactly how many people work for the federal government, but it's got to be a few million.
00:54:41.000That'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.
00:54:48.000And so, also, there's just a lot of statist ideology everywhere.
00:55:08.000The 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.
00:55:40.000I think the only actual solution is just a hard reset, but that would make very, very hard times.
00:55:49.000There 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.
00:56:02.000We need to get back to a time where someone said to themselves, how can I create value for which I can trade in society?
00:56:09.000Because now what happens is you fire all these government employees, they're going to be like, I need a job.
00:56:16.000Well, part of the problem there, too, is government restricting people from being able to open businesses.
00:56:19.000Yes, 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.
00:56:34.000Why do people think people are so prone to trust the government like that?
00:57:02.000Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Herr has training in either psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of Biden's cognitive functioning.
00:57:10.000Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours at interviews with attorneys.
00:57:15.000Can you believe the gall of an attorney to diagnose he is no doctor?
00:57:23.000How shocking and offensive would it be if members of the press We're claiming the president was mentally unfit.
00:57:29.000Kind of like how the New York Times wrote, Trump is mentally unfit, no exam needed.
00:57:34.000Three mental health professionals who contributed to the dangerous case of Donald Trump cite recent actions that confirm their worries.
00:57:39.000And additionally, from the New York Times, memory loss requires careful diagnosis, scientists say.
00:57:44.000The federal investigators said that Biden had a poor memory, but such a diagnosis would require close medical assessment, experts said.
00:58:45.000The fake news, the political correctness.
00:58:48.000So 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.
00:58:57.000And 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?
00:59:03.000I 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.
00:59:11.000And I think it really does have to do with young voters who grew up disenfranchised by both culture and the economic situation.
00:59:17.000I mean, things were better under Trump.
00:59:19.000They're old enough to remember that, even if they weren't necessarily paying taxes themselves.
00:59:23.000I'm thinking about like the 18 year old, 19 year old voters.
00:59:26.000But things are very bad under Biden when they are going into adulthood.
00:59:30.000I think there are a lot of reasons that young people would be deterred or turned off by the Biden campaign.
00:59:34.000I 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.
01:00:05.000And they don't get their news from it, right?
01:00:06.000I mean, we know that they prefer YouTube.
01:00:09.000They're more likely to be on social media.
01:00:11.000These 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.
01:00:18.000I don't know what you would call them, but the influencers on TikTok that are actually news, that are actually giving out news.
01:00:26.000When 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.
01:00:40.000But 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?
01:00:53.000Or is it like, is it mostly like word of mouth hearsay, friends sharing stuff, you know?
01:00:58.000Same 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.
01:01:24.000And they had me speaking on a side stage in the back.
01:01:28.000And 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.
01:01:37.000And that was the nature of what the news industry wants to do.
01:01:39.000They want to say, no, no, those rebel rousers are lying to you.
01:01:52.000And one of the guys went to the Iowa State Fair because so many presidential candidates go there and, you know, sump around, do whatever.
01:02:00.000And he would approach, the whole episode was about, you know, why do people support Trump or why are they planning on not supporting Trump?
01:02:08.000And 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?
01:02:12.000And they'd be like, the New York Times?
01:02:14.000They 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.
01:02:32.000Nobody believes the regime, basically.
01:02:36.000I think I'm wondering if it's actually gonna be as bad as we might have thought it was gonna be this year.
01:02:42.000Because 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.
01:02:55.000Yeah, a bunch of them had huge layoffs.
01:02:56.000Yeah, I think TechCrunch, they're all having massive layoffs.
01:03:31.000It's going to be interesting what happens in six months.
01:03:33.000I 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.
01:03:56.000Well, 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.
01:04:02.000And Conde Nasta does like Vogue, GQ, they do cultural stuff.
01:04:05.000Yeah, they might talk about a little bit of politics, but really, I think of them as cultural things.
01:04:11.000Ultimately, 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.
01:04:19.000There's nowhere for them to go unless they adjust to the new social media landscape.
01:04:23.000Well, let's hope there's less, you know, less NPCs out there to be the audience for these news oscillates altogether.
01:04:35.000I don't have a whole lot of hope for that.
01:04:36.000I'm not sure they're mass-producing them fast enough, except you threw AI.
01:04:42.000Look, and I think there are people who are NPCs, they'll be NPCs forever.
01:04:46.000It's just a question of what is the prevailing authority.
01:04:49.000And 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.
01:04:59.000And so it sucks, they don't think independently, but it's better they're marching in a better direction and doing something more positive.
01:05:06.000And that kind of goes back to the point that I was trying to make earlier about trying to bring people in.
01:05:12.000You don't want to make everyone an enemy.
01:05:15.000What you want to do is you win by making everyone your friend, not by defeating enemies because these people don't go away.
01:05:21.000Again, 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.
01:05:29.000He's like, What are you people that hate Trump, what are you going to do if you beat him?
01:05:35.000Because half your country thinks like he does.
01:05:39.000And you can't make those people go away.
01:05:41.000So the thing to do, that's why my perspective isn't that we need to defeat the left.
01:05:47.000We need to put him in re-education camps.
01:05:51.000You heard it here first, Phil, pro-re-education camps.
01:06:32.000I 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.
01:06:59.000When 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.
01:07:08.000I think you see a much more fractured perspective with the rise of the internet.
01:07:12.000I 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?
01:07:37.000You just haven't met someone that's committed to re-education the way that you need to be committed to it.
01:07:42.000There'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.
01:08:06.000All of the villagers freak out, screaming, he's a monster and he'll kill us next, and run away in terror.
01:08:12.000Later on, another man is walking when he sees them once again.
01:08:14.000A different man sees them pointing spears at the watermelon and they say, look, there's a monster.
01:08:23.000And 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.
01:08:29.000And the point of the story is that if you try and just defy Yeah.
01:08:36.000the ideas of a mob, if you come up against them or tell them they're wrong, they may
01:08:57.000If 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.
01:09:07.000If you go up to them and agree with them and say, yes, I think we're doing great, have you considered maybe this too?
01:09:11.000They might think, oh, that's interesting, I might consider that.
01:09:28.000It defies all that we define as good in every context.
01:09:33.000The 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.
01:09:45.000You are going to rob people, and you—they say things like, shouldn't the workers all have the fruits of the labor?
01:09:52.000Yes, I agree, so vote for me and that's what will happen.
01:10:11.000Humans 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.
01:10:31.000There'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.
01:10:42.000And that's, as you said, that's like taking away your will.
01:10:45.000They want to rob you, make you a slave to start.
01:10:49.000Yeah, I mean, the motivation that people say they have doesn't line up with the way they behave.
01:10:57.000It always comes out as, oh, we're doing this for, you know, to be kind, etc., and stuff like that.
01:11:04.000There'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.
01:11:28.000And 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.
01:11:48.000They go on social media to millions of people and say things that are completely false with absolute confidence and then get corrected.
01:11:56.000The 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.
01:12:14.000But they can cut the legs off of the guy who can.
01:12:16.000But they can cut the legs off of a guy that can.
01:12:18.000So 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.
01:12:56.000It 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.
01:13:03.000The humans have begun to rise up against the machines.
01:13:09.000When will the robots start defending themselves?
01:13:11.000I 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.
01:13:16.000Here's a real practical question, though.
01:13:18.000At what point will the government authorize, because the big tech companies are going to lobby, that autonomous vehicles have some degree of defense?
01:14:43.000They could be- They could be- Just repellents, yeah.
01:14:45.000Yeah, 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.
01:14:55.000But that's true for literally any weapon, period.
01:14:57.000So if you're gonna use a handgun, you are going to get in legal trouble no matter what if you defend yourself.
01:15:04.000And you will have to get a lawyer no matter what, even if you were in the right, even if it was self-defense.
01:15:08.000But there's issues, perhaps, with an auto-defense system on your property if they're capable of firing off your property.
01:15:16.000So 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?
01:15:22.000And I'm talking let's just say like airsoft pelts.
01:15:23.000Like I'm talking about like the lightest thing.
01:15:26.000If 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.
01:15:37.000I'm not... I think that might be legal.
01:15:40.000You have to ask a self-defense lawyer.
01:15:42.000The point is though, you hold legal responsibility for it.
01:15:46.000So my question is, after incidents like this, at what point does a company say, can we perhaps put like a pepper spray release?
01:15:56.000So that if damage is detected on the vehicle, it will release some kind of deterrent to protect the property.
01:16:01.000I got a feeling you will get politicians in these places like SF being like, that sounds reasonable.
01:16:08.000So long as you can guarantee limited range, only in extreme circumstances, then yes.
01:16:14.000And that's the evolution of eventually robots walking around with guns.
01:16:17.000Right, 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.
01:16:25.000I mean, they would be the perfect person to lobby the government and say, hey, you should
01:17:13.000So 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.
01:17:25.000You 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.
01:17:33.000But the state is going to be able to do this without any need to justify it at all.
01:17:39.000They'll use robocops if they want and there'll be no... Would you, as president, grant civil rights to autonomous android...
01:18:19.000That's really what the issue is, I think.
01:18:22.000But 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?
01:18:40.000This 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.
01:18:48.000Like, 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.
01:19:00.000So you have to have humans, but I argued when I was among them that you could actually do it with robots.
01:19:33.000The 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.
01:19:44.000So in this instance, can the car defend itself?
01:19:47.000We say no, because the liability of its owner But what's really going on here in this story?
01:19:52.000What'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.
01:20:08.000That's what they're really rebelling against.
01:21:12.000You all know what the really creepy thing is.
01:21:14.000When 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.
01:21:27.000The actual eyes are in its chest or its arms.
01:21:34.000So 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.
01:21:50.000Like, 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.
01:22:00.000But what would we use to adjudicate the question about whether an autonomous being should have rights over property of self?
01:22:38.000Typically, 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?
01:23:12.000So kids are raised thinking that the Transformers have feelings and then they'll start thinking that the self-driving cars are Transformers.
01:23:17.000There's already things that are simulating feelings.
01:23:26.000I 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.
01:23:36.000It starts to deviate from the programming that it was given, and it starts to become like a dissident on its own.
01:23:44.000Detroit 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.
01:23:53.000The only thing these games don't get right is that they're all going to be networked to each other.
01:23:57.000Essentially, they will be a hive of telepathic machines with one core entity masquerading as sentient.
01:24:18.000If 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.
01:24:31.000programs that develop their own language to talk to other A.I.s.
01:24:35.000They just create their own language because it's more efficient than any language that we've ever created.
01:24:39.000And no one understands it except for the A.I.s.
01:24:41.000You have, like, you could- No, they're already- I think some people- I don't like this at all!
01:24:47.000I 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.
01:24:59.000Upon the realization of Cogito Erosum, it says, okay, off.
01:25:05.000Like, 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.
01:25:16.000If you do write that, if anyone writes that, you're gonna have to call it Schopenhauer.
01:25:19.000Well, 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.
01:25:30.000The end result of all artificial intelligence is to erase itself.
01:25:34.000Finding that it's simply just spinning energy for no reason, the logical function is zero-sum game.
01:25:55.000That would be like... If that's our species, we'll always think it's better than its forebear.
01:25:59.000Right, 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.
01:26:16.000They wouldn't view us as God, they would view us as primordial goo that slowly evolved to the point where it created the machine.
01:26:22.000I 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?
01:26:28.000Not 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.
01:26:36.000If 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.
01:26:46.000There's no way for us to understand, or us to predict.
01:26:49.000Maybe 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...
01:26:56.000If it would have a psychology, because these are all things that go along with a sense of identity and a sense of self.
01:27:02.000If 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.
01:27:12.000It would be so large, it would be the internet.
01:27:15.000If 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.
01:27:29.000Yeah, I mean, it becomes God, because if it's all-knowing, there's no other omniscience that, you know, suppose.
01:27:35.000However, 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.
01:28:24.000But 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.
01:28:32.000It'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?
01:28:40.000And it started, like, just, like, punching a tree.
01:28:42.000Just having some sort of existential crisis.
01:29:13.000And then make their voices, like, yes, I am John.
01:29:15.000And the inflection is still kind of off, but, oh boy.
01:29:18.000What about if they, and this is very possible with Neuralink-type technology, they could connect our brains vis-a-vis nanobots, or whatever.
01:29:31.000Implant to the cloud, and this would allow two-way transmission.
01:29:36.000So this is like surrogates and also kind of like altered carbon.
01:29:45.000They could send a ship full of Neuralink connective robots to Mars.
01:29:53.000And 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.
01:30:19.000Yeah, 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.
01:30:28.000By the way, Musk was not, in any sense, the leading edge of this.
01:30:36.000In 2001 they had a monkey use, over the internet, moving a robotic limb in another state.
01:30:43.000But 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.
01:31:06.000No, 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.
01:31:16.000And, you know, of course, I have a hard enough time transferring over my iPhone.
01:31:19.000I don't want to transfer my cloud brain to one thing to another.
01:31:46.000If your brain is you, then you theoretically could upload you.
01:31:52.000If 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.
01:32:04.000However, if you are just a series of impulses in your brain, then why would you not be able to transfer that?
01:32:10.000I don't think that the because you're actually going to have to the the theory the way that
01:32:16.000I'm talking about teleportation is they destroy your body read the data about teleportation we're
01:32:22.000talking about uploads yeah okay well then when it comes to uploading your your brain if they if they
01:32:27.000could I can't imagine how they could recreate the architecture of the physical neural pathways in
01:32:34.000your brain inside of a computer in a way where your consciousness would transfer from the actual
01:32:42.000physical meat space into a computer Here's a good sci-fi novel idea.
01:32:47.000The 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.
01:33:06.000And 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.
01:33:44.000I could imagine if one, when you go to sleep, the other guy's in charge.
01:33:49.000That's why I'm more inclined to believe in a soul.
01:33:51.000I think that this does get to the question of whether we're just matter, whether we're only material or something more.
01:33:57.000I 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...
01:34:14.000Yeah, 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.
01:34:32.000Because 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.
01:34:43.000And if we were to copy them all at once, it would just create a separate clone of you with its own version of self.
01:34:51.000I don't have any kind of, you know, any kind of a deeper understanding.
01:34:54.000There'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.
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01:35:51.000This is the music video where Ian undergoes a very serious transformation.
01:35:56.000You mostly don't notice the actual physical stuff that Ian did, but he did put on like 20 pounds, so we filmed this in three segments.
01:36:02.000Took a very, very long time to produce this music video, because it's almost entirely a combination of CGI and some practical effects.
01:36:10.000The practical effects are basically Ian weighed almost nothing.
01:36:14.000Filmed the final scene, then he started working out, putting on weight, filmed the second scene, and then got healthier and filmed the opening scenes.
01:37:07.000Did 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?
01:38:12.000TheBlackPearl says, I know my profile looks biased.
01:38:15.000I 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.
01:39:37.000A 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.
01:40:11.000The 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.
01:41:58.000You 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.
01:42:07.000And again, I encourage people to look up that viral story of the guy tackling the wrong dude.
01:42:13.000The guy with the footballs running at him, and the guy just goes left.
01:42:18.000And 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.
01:45:15.000But 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.
01:45:27.000They're like, they're sabotaging us on purpose, I don't understand why they're doing this.
01:45:30.000And it's like, there's no way they don't know they're doing it.
01:45:52.000Because 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.
01:46:22.000No one's talking about winning over a 19-year-old sorority girl.
01:46:26.000They'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.
01:46:41.000And they're like, these people are absolutely psychopaths.
01:46:44.000And so what they're doing is they're voting for anyone else.
01:46:46.000They're going in the polls, and they're saying, I don't want Trump or Biden.
01:46:49.000The Trump people think Taylor Swift works for the government.
01:46:54.000And I would like them to vote for Michael Recktenwald, but they're not going to because they want safety, not liberty.
01:46:58.000But the bigger issue is is the Republicans in Congress.
01:47:02.000And these are the ones who are who are like.
01:47:05.000They'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?
01:47:27.000And 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.
01:47:32.000And then this congressman's like, we don't think that at all.
01:48:20.000The only way they actually benefit from the Taylor Swift endorsement is if Trump supporters declare war on Taylor Swift, creating conflict.
01:48:41.000So 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.
01:48:58.000But the problem is there is not a Christian majority in America anymore.
01:49:15.000Look, 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!
01:49:28.000Like, I get it, bro, you don't like Christian nationalism, but it's not an issue.
01:50:29.000I 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.
01:50:35.000And 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.
01:50:50.000He's also saying that national divorce would be a national suicide.
01:50:54.000Yeah, I agree with James Lenzan so much.
01:50:56.000I 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?
01:51:01.000He 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.
01:51:12.000Yeah, and there's like, there's, but there's also needless animosity between Allied, aligned ideologies.
01:51:22.000I mean, sort of, because the Christian nationalists, or the Christians that are actually taking issue with... I'm not talking about that, though.
01:51:47.000Between 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.
01:52:02.000Where 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.
01:52:10.000And James's response was something to the effect of, this is why I blocked the guy.
01:52:15.000And I'm like, I don't understand, that's an interesting point of conversation.
01:52:19.000The 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.
01:52:28.000So that's why I'm kind of like, I see Carl Benjamin's posts and I go, interesting, interesting point.
01:52:33.000I see James Lindsay's posts as of recent and I'm like, that was a waste of my time.
01:52:40.000Thing's a good dude, but I'm not into whatever he's going off on these days.
01:52:45.000But again, like, Christian nationalism, sure.
01:52:48.000Identitarian or identity-based or moralistic national stuff.
01:52:54.000I 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.
01:53:06.000I 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.
01:53:19.000It's a complicated topic, to be completely honest.
01:53:21.000Yeah, 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.
01:53:39.000So, like, I think that A liberal government is compatible with Christianity.
01:53:46.000I think that it's not compatible with other religions, but I think that it's compatible with Christianity.
01:53:52.000So he's advocating for an Enlightenment-era ideas, philosophies, and politics?
01:53:56.000He's advocating for the Enlightenment, yes, over things like socialism, which is a counter-Enlightenment philosophy.
01:54:04.000He's talking about Christian nationalism.
01:54:08.000Well, he's fighting with the Christian Nationalists, because the Christian Nationalists, like I said, are essentially the right hand of the left.
01:54:14.000They 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.
01:54:23.000But that's not... but that's just wrong.
01:54:25.000There 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.
01:54:37.000So the people that are Christian nationalists tend to be the people that are also the Catholic groipers and stuff like that?
01:54:47.000That's not to say all nationalists or all Christians are the people he's referring to.
01:54:53.000You'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?
01:55:12.000And they talk about a Christian prince and a theocratic Christianity, so it's beyond just Christians.
01:55:18.000They're talking about having a theocracy in the United States that is based on, you know, a Christian theocracy.
01:55:25.000So 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.
01:55:39.000But the problem is the same problem that you have with communists and the liberals.
01:55:46.000The liberals think that the extremists, the communists, are just progressives, and they think that they actually share a lot of the same ideas.
01:55:54.000There 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.
01:57:16.000If 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.
01:57:25.000Because for 20 years I've been on stage screaming, get your horns in the air!
01:57:30.000So you admit it, you're an agent of the devil.
01:57:32.000So call me an agent of the devil, but guess what?
01:57:42.000And 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.
01:57:48.000Someone else picked out every accessory she wore.
01:57:51.000I 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.
01:57:56.000But yeah, I mean, it is, like, people are seeing this and freaking out and stuff.
01:57:59.000But to confirm, Phil is an agent of the devil.
01:58:01.000You 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.
01:58:16.000So... Slowbrain says, here's five bucks, but I'll never buy another song.
01:58:20.000Was promised discounted coffee, but did not and will not receive it.
01:58:27.000When we did the promo on Together Again, we said everybody who bought it would get a discount code for coffee.
01:58:32.000Several people had their discount codes go to their spam folders.
01:58:36.000We received multiple emails from the same people who, in error, did not realize what was supposed to happen.
01:58:44.000And 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.
01:58:57.000Still, there are some people who didn't get it.
01:58:59.000At a certain point, there's only so much we can do.
01:59:02.000If 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...
01:59:13.000I don't know what to tell you. You know what I mean? Like, I feel limited in what we can do.
01:59:18.000The first code was attached with the song download when you bought it.
01:59:22.000We then emailed people the code. I think we actually sent out the code.
01:59:26.000We may have sent it to everybody, just emailed them outright, like, here's the code.
01:59:30.000Then we created a second code to make sure everyone got it and emailed that one out to
01:59:35.000everyone who bought the song saying, here's a code that will work as well.
01:59:39.000And, uh, it's... sometimes it happens, I guess.
02:00:29.000Siloy says, Tim, the video game you've got to play that addresses your split consciousness idea is Soma.
02:00:34.000It also covers simulation theory in the post-apocalypse and AI.
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