DOJ Indicts Russians For Funding US Company, Tenet Media Alleged w-Anthony Constantino | Timcast IRLDOJ Indicts Russians For Funding US Company, Tenet Media Alleged w-Anthony Constantino | Timcast IRL
On this week's show, we discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the Tenet Media/Kamala Harris smear campaign, the DOJ indictments of RT employees, and more! Plus, a new segment on why you should stop hating on Trump supporters.
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00:03:47.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Anthony Constantino.
00:03:53.000I got a company called Sticker Mule, and I made waves a few weeks ago for apparently you can't say that it's not nice to hate Trump supporters, so I sent a thing out telling our customers, you know, people need to stop hating Trump supporters.
00:04:04.000Apparently you can't say that, and it ended up becoming a big thing.
00:04:07.000I ended up being the talk of the town, particularly on Threads.
00:04:09.000I told everyone Threads became the Mark Zuckerberg's website, which he made to Mess up X or whatever, but I became the talk of the town on Threads.
00:04:17.000Became the Sticker Mill fan club for a week and also talked about all over the internet, YouTube, YouTube rails and all this other stuff.
00:05:17.000From the post-millennial, DOJ indicts two RT media-affiliated Russians, accuses them of laundering $10 million to conservative company Tenet Media to sow division in U.S.
00:05:29.000The DOJ alleged that the two concocted a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S.
00:05:34.000audiences with hidden Russian government messaging.
00:05:36.000Well, let me just take the word of the DOJ straight from the DOJ website.
00:05:41.000I have a statement on this, which I will read for you in a second.
00:05:45.000When I first learned of this story, literally, I'm skateboarding, and I get a DM from a journalist asking if I would talk about the Russian allegations or whatever, and I was like, what?
00:06:04.000I'm like, dude, I have literally no idea what you're talking about.
00:06:06.000And so then I get some calls after a conversation with a few people.
00:06:11.000I was like, all right, I'll put out a statement.
00:06:13.000And I thought it was a leaked indictment.
00:06:14.000I didn't realize the DOJ actually did a press conference on all this stuff.
00:06:17.000So then when I, I just, I just corrected and changed it.
00:06:20.000And so let me, let me read this for you and then we'll give the context as to what this means for us and for you.
00:06:26.000I will stress that this literally has nothing to do with Timcast Media in any way.
00:06:31.000I want to make sure that's very, very clear.
00:06:33.000The Culture War podcast is a separate company that produces The Culture War, and it licensed a show to Tenet, and that was it.
00:06:41.000There's no direct connection between this and TimCast.
00:06:45.000They say two RT employees indicted for covertly funding and directing a U.S.
00:06:49.000company that published thousands of videos and furtherance of Russian interests.
00:06:52.000They say an indictment charging Russian nationals Konstantin Kalishnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was unsealed today in the Southern District of New York.
00:07:13.000The Justice Department has charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S.
00:07:20.000audiences with hidden Russian government messaging.
00:07:23.000Said Merrick Garland, the Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country's free exchange of ideas in order to covertly further its own propaganda efforts, and our investigation into this matter remains ongoing.
00:07:35.000Our approach to combating foreign malign influence is actor-driven, exposing the hidden hand of adversaries pulling strings of influence from behind the curtain," said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
00:07:45.000As alleged in today's indictment, Russian state broadcaster RT and its employees, including the charged defendants, co-opted online commentators by funneling them nearly $10 million to pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation across social media to U.S.
00:08:05.000COVID attempts to sow division and trick Americans into unwittingly consuming foreign propaganda
00:08:10.000represents attacks on our democracy, said Christopher Wray.
00:08:13.000Today's actions show that as long as foreign adversaries like Russia keep engaging in hostile
00:08:17.000influence campaigns, they are going to keep running into the FBI.
00:08:21.000We'll continue to do everything we can to expose the hidden hand of foreign adversaries
00:08:24.000like Russia and disrupt their efforts to meddle in our free and open society.
00:08:28.000The Russian government has long sought to sow discord and chaos in the United States through propaganda and foreign-aligned influence campaigns.
00:08:34.000Okay, they're just repeating themselves.
00:09:00.000company One published English-language videos on multiple social media channels, including TikTok, Instagram, Axe, and YouTube.
00:09:06.000Since publicly launching in or about November 2023, they've posted nearly 2,000 videos and have garnered more than 16 million views on YouTube alone.
00:09:15.000Company One contain commentary on events and issues in the U.S.
00:09:17.000such as immigration, inflation, and other topics related to domestic and foreign policy.
00:09:21.000While the views expressed in those videos are not uniform, most are directed to the publicly stated goals of the government of Russia and RT to amplify domestic divisions in the United States.
00:09:30.000I mean, that's a strong opinion, but I can't speak for the other commentators, so I don't know.
00:09:36.000I can only speak for what we produce on The Culture War.
00:09:39.000which is available on iTunes and Spotify.
00:09:41.000In order to carry out RT's secret influence campaign, they say these individuals posed as outside editors at the
00:09:47.000company and monitored the funding and hiring.
00:09:50.000They introduced Afanasy Yeva as a member of the ported editing team
00:09:54.000using fake personas, Helena Schroeder and Victoria Pesti.
00:10:32.000And they're arguing that Tenet was saying it was Ukraine or something?
00:10:34.000This is what the terrorist attack on October 7th.
00:10:36.000I'm pretty sure we called it ISIS, and we were like, oh wow.
00:10:38.000I thought we talked about the spread of Islamic extremism in Europe, but... Which also is... Anyway, so they go on to mention that $9.7 million was...
00:10:52.000The document names a few people, but they do this thing where they don't name the person.
00:10:58.000But if you're fans of The Simpsons, then you'll remember that episode where they said, it's Principal Skinner, and he's like, a certain person has complained, we'll call her Lisa S. No, that's not good enough.
00:12:27.000Now considering this, and I don't know what is true or not.
00:12:31.000I think what is likely going to happen is that the show is just going to revert back to the same exact show that it always was, and it's going to be on YouTube.com slash Timcast as we do.
00:12:40.000That's the only thing I can really say, I don't know.
00:13:21.000And to the journalists who wish to jump the gun, create their own narrative, or lie about what is currently going on, you can eat my Irish ass.
00:14:59.000So you can infer, there's a list of commentators that are included in it.
00:15:04.000And it clearly shows that the indictment's allegation—I don't know if it's true—is that the founders intentionally sought to deceive the people who were involved as talent for the company.
00:16:00.000Well, it says right there in the indictment, I just read this for you, it says that Founder 1, 2, and the two defendants worked together to mask the true source of their funding and tried to deceive commentators.
00:16:42.000They claim Benny Johnson was a victim.
00:16:45.000But, you know, it's all over X or whatever, and everyone's talking about it.
00:16:50.000I just think it's funny that they're like, it pushed Russian interests, and I'm just like, our show will be live on Friday, and we're talking about movies, I think.
00:16:57.000We're talking about movie production this time.
00:17:01.000Man, it's a very sensitive period of human history.
00:17:04.000We were talking a little bit about the show, like the world order, the shifting of the world order.
00:17:07.000They want to evolve the liberal economic order into a new world order that's more viable, I don't know, that's more synergistic with the way we live, that's not BRICS because the BRICS alliance looks like a counter-imposing order.
00:17:22.000And are people getting caught up in the psychological warfare?
00:17:27.000Obviously, if people are coming in with fake money and defrauding companies and YouTube creators.
00:17:33.000I think it's kind of more interesting, and I'm not suggesting anything nefarious from the DOJ, but, you know, today is the first time Tim Walz is doing his solo appearances, two of them in Pennsylvania.
00:17:45.000Kamala Harris is up in New Hampshire talking about how she's going to help small businesses.
00:17:49.000And then we're like, hey, it's kind of a slow news day, except for this thing.
00:17:52.000Like, why is the press during the election cycle taking this off day, not covering what these two Democrats are talking about?
00:17:59.000Instead, the DOJ has released, it's not just this, the DOJ has a ton of Of things that have come out today.
00:18:04.000And it's interesting to me that, you know, maybe it's coincidental, but also that the news media seems to have taken a pause, waited for these to come out, and then this happens to be the one that's getting big on X. Probably.
00:18:14.000I think the funny thing is that like Dave Rubin was posting clips of just like a guy buying stuff at Taco Bell and getting mad.
00:18:22.000Like apparently his show was him just commenting on nonsense.
00:18:29.000Like, they were pushing Russian-aligned misinformation.
00:18:32.000It's like, I think his show was, like, a woman would be in a viral video throwing quarters at somebody, and they'd be like, what are these people doing?
00:18:39.000I wonder if there was, like, a message that got sent, just one or two, that's like, well, what if you did a show about this thing?
00:18:45.000And that's, like, the real Russian op, is that they're like, why not just look at one of these maybe one day?
00:19:42.000You know, I had a brief introduction to the world of VCs when we were first getting started, and yeah, you don't want to be in that world.
00:19:48.000You just came with your own money and then hit— You know, a friend of mine invested in the company, and you know, he cut a check, and my early investor was 72 years old, so he wanted to exit, and you know, he exited on a great deal.
00:19:58.000He's still—you know, we're still great friends, and yeah.
00:20:01.000But I gotta admit, I'm kind of jealous of your situation.
00:20:03.000I like working on fun things, and nothing seems more fun than—no, nothing seems more fun than suing the vice president.
00:20:11.000It's not fun to have people messaging you about the Vice President accusing you of calling for the mass jailing and execution of half the country.
00:20:21.000It's kind of a weird thing to accuse someone of wanting, especially when I'm like very ardently opposed to the death penalty.
00:20:28.000So, you know, I suppose the thing is, like, I don't know, man.
00:20:36.000Like, these things don't move the needle for me.
00:20:51.000Yeah, and so like he goes to the hypnotist and then all of a sudden he doesn't care anymore and he like shows up and he's like, whatever, I don't care.
00:22:21.000There's lots of honesty in it, but it's willing to lie to maintain order.
00:22:26.000And the crazy thing is that the quote, stop making me defend Trump trend from 2016, 17 or whatever, perfectly explains where many people ended up.
00:23:21.000Like, I was listening to this interview, because Zelensky has made moves into Russia now, and there was a reporter from, I would think, a totally mainstream source.
00:23:28.000I can't remember which one, NBC, ABC, whatever.
00:23:30.000And he was like, so, but do you think that, like, when you did this, did you give any warning to Washington, to Biden?
00:23:39.000You know, I have to be secret about these things.
00:23:40.000And the mainstream American reporter is like, but Americans feel like they're funding, helping Ukraine defend themselves from Russia.
00:23:48.000And this doesn't really seem like what you're doing now.
00:23:51.000I think there's a lot of misconception about what's going on, and I think that there may be people who are vying for power and influence in the world, but a lot of it is just chaos, like people grabbing opportunities whenever they can.
00:24:02.000I mean, here's the question for you guys, because I pointed this out.
00:24:04.000I was talking to some of my friends back in 2015.
00:24:11.000Do you like that we don't export things but we get access to all these things around the world?
00:24:16.000Basically, if you like the status quo, which includes the bombing of foreign countries, the military expansionism, wars, that declaration, Hillary Clinton's your candidate.
00:24:29.000You can wake up, you can go work as a receptionist at whatever business, you can get paid your salary, and you will live under the petrodollar.
00:24:39.000If you vote for Donald Trump, you're voting for hard work, you're voting for sacrifice, you're voting for better deals for this country, and that's gonna have a negative impact on the liberal economic order.
00:24:50.000So the question is now, I see the Democratic establishment, the Uniparty, Liz Cheney is a part of it now too, what do Republicans mean?
00:24:58.000Yeah, their attitude is, we will remain wealthy and in control if we go to war, we blow up anybody who opposes us.
00:25:20.000That is just military might of one faction on the planet.
00:25:24.000I suppose the argument then is, do you, and I'll throw this to you guys, believe there's a possibility of stable global order in a multipolar world, meaning multiple powerful countries existing as superpowers competing for... I think there is.
00:25:37.000A hundred percent, because if the United States could do it at a state level, then yeah, we stopped fighting.
00:25:42.000At one point, we had to come together with all our differences.
00:25:45.000The thing is, we spoke the same language.
00:26:06.000That's one of the reasons that I hate the overarching bureaucracy of the federal government.
00:26:10.000I mean, there's this lawsuit that the Supreme Court just weighed in on.
00:26:14.000The federal government, the Department of Health and Human Services has said, Oklahoma, you have to, as part of your family planning resources, refer people to get abortions.
00:26:22.000And under Oklahoma state law, they're really strict.
00:26:25.000And so Oklahoma doesn't want to do that.
00:26:26.000And so now, The federal government has been like, well, fine, you can't have that money and we're going to give it to an organization in Missouri instead.
00:26:33.000Like it's four and a half million dollars.
00:26:35.000It's maybe not going to change every single thing in Oklahoma.
00:26:37.000On the other hand, we still – there is still fight over resources.
00:26:41.000So it would be difficult to think of a world where governments – they might have stronger diplomatic relationships, but they're always going to in some ways be competing over something and in that sense nothing stays just perfectly stable.
00:26:53.000It's the difference of fighting and competing.
00:27:16.000The argument is that many people... I would say the establishment believes a multipolar world is not possible or preferable and will result in war, and at the state, the scale of technology that we're at, that war would be very bad.
00:27:28.000They literally say this in the Liberal Economic Order, the Council on Foreign Relations says.
00:27:33.000So if you look at what they're trying to do now, with the war in Ukraine, with Israel, with the Middle East, why they hate Trump is they just want military expansionist policy because they would prefer to be in charge as opposed to China or BRICS.
00:28:10.000So in that case, and we're looking at a multipolar world regardless, or World War III, which I'd prefer not, Donald Trump's path seems to make the most sense.
00:28:18.000Secure our borders, better trade agreements, shore up our manufacturing.
00:28:22.000Surprise, surprise, the Democrats are starting to embrace Trump's policies.
00:28:26.000And maybe Kamala Harris comes out and says, build a wall, and no tax on tips.
00:28:30.000Then gets elected, brings in all the illegal immigrants, and then declares war on 50 other countries.
00:29:08.000Eight members of the Minnesota governor family posing for an image showing their support for Republican rival Donald Trump.
00:29:14.000We knew that his brother had been speaking out.
00:29:16.000They said the photo quickly went viral among MAGA users who say his own family's opposition to his candidacy is proof that people should be wary of voting for a Harris-Waltz ticket.
00:29:25.000I'm not convinced she can win right now.
00:29:53.000It's just, you know, he's doing right moves with the podcast, he's talking to the people, he's, you know, he's got his act together, the podcast, he's doing, you know, he called his son a secret weapon baron, I think he's right in that.
00:30:02.000I think the podcasts are a big deal, for sure.
00:30:06.000But I would say, if your VP can't convince their own family to vote for him, you're in trouble.
00:30:12.000Well, it sounds kind of similar to what...
00:30:15.000Kennedy was experiencing with the other Kennedys coming out and being like, don't vote for him, vote for Kamala Harris.
00:30:21.000And you're like, well, you are not your family.
00:30:23.000Yeah, I get the comparison you're making.
00:30:25.000It is making me laugh, though, that his brother is saying character stuff, but other people in the family are just like, nope, we're voting for Trump.
00:30:35.000It makes me wonder, because part of the thing that bothers me about Tim Walz, and everyone gets to grow and change, but when he ran for Congress, he postured much more moderately.
00:30:44.000He was in a rural area and he seemed to sort of signal, you know, whatever.
00:31:32.000You want a candidate with some sort of sense of self, right?
00:31:34.000Because you want them to represent the people.
00:31:37.000On the other hand, if you're negotiating with You know, world leaders, you have to kind of have a sense of what the people want and the direction they want the country to go in.
00:31:45.000They can't just always be looking for those around them being like, will you like me if I do this thing?
00:31:50.000Like you have to make the hard decision sometime.
00:32:48.000Because Trump was a global name before.
00:32:50.000Yeah, you know, I tell people this, like, with this whole issue, you know, I've been telling people, like, you know, I got on the news for just asking people to stop the Trump hate.
00:32:56.000In general, and I don't think it's the whole world.
00:32:58.000It's like, it's 10 million or so people that are severely affected with Trump hate, but people don't want to hear it.
00:33:02.000They don't want to believe me, but you know, cause I say there's hundreds of millions of Trump supporters to say, well, how could that be?
00:33:06.000Only 70 million people voted for him or so, but you know, I travel over the world and you know, he's liked or loved in Mexico and in Europe and in South America alone, he might have a few hundred million supporters.
00:33:15.000I mean, people in South America love the guy.
00:33:16.000So, um, yeah, it's easier to talk about Trump in Mexico than it is in the United States.
00:33:21.000I mean, in certain parts of the United States, you say like Trump and, I don't know.
00:33:23.000People either get really aggressive, or they walk out the room, or they say they never want to talk to you again.
00:33:27.000But in Mexico, people are mostly just curious, or they like them, or even if they don't like them, they'll say something along the lines of, you know, I don't care for him, but I wish we had a president like that.
00:33:35.000And you hear that all over the world, really.
00:33:37.000I mean, I got people in 39 countries, so I know about this better than most, I think.
00:33:42.000Yeah, I think there is a different – I mean, it's obviously easier to talk about something when it's not your country.
00:33:47.000You can be a little bit more objective.
00:33:49.000But I think that there is an international respect for Trump from people who wish their leaders were better negotiators, frankly, than there is in the United States.
00:34:01.000In the United States, it's such a social emotional issue to hate Trump.
00:34:05.000Like if you were to say, well, I don't like him, but he did do this one thing right.
00:34:09.000There are certain people in certain social enclaves that would just be like, get out of here.
00:34:30.000You know, people get so wound up, but people on the outside looking in, they don't have the same issues that we got in the United States.
00:34:34.000They just see it as Jesus is a guy that's fighting for his country.
00:34:37.000And, you know, maybe he's not the ideal person for me, but, you know, he's waiting for his country.
00:34:42.000And I wish, you know, I wish we had that here.
00:34:44.000Yeah, we don't, you know, a lot of people are in a toxic relationship with politicians, you know, in the United States where the politicians poison their mind and make them hate their friends and family members and stuff like that over just about nothing, really.
00:34:57.000I tell everybody, you know, you become stupider when you become too much to one side or another.
00:35:01.000I mean, there's studies that prove it, you know.
00:35:04.000You become too far to one side, you become stupider.
00:35:06.000So even if you like Trump, you know, don't go all in on the Trump stuff.
00:35:08.000You should be critical to both sides, you know.
00:35:10.000He kind of represents an essence of stability in a way, but then to other people that don't like it or don't agree with that, they think he's the essence of instability.
00:35:18.000It's very weird how the polarization has been sown or divided.
00:35:26.000What is it that causes, you know, the corporate press lies.
00:35:28.000I don't know what 60% of what they say is fake.
00:35:34.000So, I mean, you get a story like this, and you can see the picture of the family wearing the shirts, you know that it was tweeted out, you know Trump posted it, and you're like, okay, I can reasonably conclude the story's likely true.
00:35:43.000But then you get all these other stories, and I swear, they're just mostly fake!
00:35:48.000I mean, the best example, of course, is the Very Fine People hoax.
00:35:51.000The media incessantly says this, Joe Biden says this, they just lie claiming Trump called Nazis fine people, which he did not.
00:35:58.000And then you get these people who live in this cult world who won't hear otherwise, they don't want to watch the video proving it's a lie.
00:36:07.000Well, according to Eric Weinstein, who just did an interview with Chris Williamson, you ask them questions.
00:36:12.000How do you feel about the way that transpired?
00:36:15.000About things that have happened when they realize for a moment, without trying to tell them what to feel, and let them start to question it themselves.
00:36:29.000I saw that he was talking about the illusion of choice, the magician's choice it's called, where you think you're choosing between one of two candidates but they both represent the same thing.
00:36:39.000I think most millennials have complained about this on the internet for a long time, especially considering the Bush to Obama transition was not really anything special.
00:36:49.000And the joke among the left is that When you get a Republican president, the plane is dropping bombs.
00:36:54.000And when you get a Democrat, it's a plane dropping bombs.
00:37:07.000It doesn't work because what's happening is not that they're wrong and they want to be right.
00:37:12.000It's that they're trying to figure out what is socially acceptable.
00:37:15.000And so if they know that what is socially acceptable is that Trump is bad, you saying, why don't you like Trump will result in them saying, what do you mean?
00:37:59.000And Zielinski was, the Americans are not funding the war in Ukraine.
00:38:01.000This is after we gave him $61 billion.
00:38:02.000At the end of the interview, I told my dad, well, that's crazy that he blatantly said we're not funding the war after we just gave him $61 billion.
00:38:08.000He's like, no, he said we're not fighting the war.
00:38:44.000If you're like me and you like Trump and you've got a good reputation, you've just got to speak up and admit it.
00:38:47.000Because I think the fact of the matter is, if everybody that liked Trump spoke up in unison and started admitting it, particularly I agree.
00:38:53.000intelligent people with good reputations. If everybody spoke up all at once, all
00:38:56.000these Trump haters, they'd be in shock. I agree. It would go away very
00:38:59.000quickly, but you know everyone's staying quiet. So hopefully, you know, I think
00:39:03.000people are starting to do it. You know, Elon really led the way doing it and
00:39:06.000other people, you know, Kanye in a way did too. People don't like when I say
00:39:08.000Kanye, but you know. I think it's just normalizing it, right?
00:39:42.000And so you end up with what people refer to as the secret Trump voter.
00:39:46.000But I guess without the massive public support, the institutions will continue to pump out lies, continue to try to radicalize people or terrify them into not supporting the better candidate.
00:39:57.000And I think the media has depicted people who support Trump as extremist others.
00:40:04.000It's scary when they're in your community.
00:40:06.000If your neighbor has a Trump flag, you should be nervous.
00:40:09.000It's fear-mongering, which I think is a big play for any kind of left-wing outlet and left-wing political party in America.
00:40:16.000But to your point, if you were just to say like, oh yeah, I voted for Trump, it's not a big deal.
00:40:21.000If you keep it normal, I think it becomes much less terrifying to someone who doesn't really consume a fair amount of media.
00:40:28.000If you're only consuming biased media and you believe that, you know, people who support Donald Trump are a threat to the nation, then of course you run the other way.
00:40:36.000But if it was actually just like your friend and their husband or whatever else who support it, it becomes more familiar and therefore less intimidating.
00:40:43.000You know, if I look at these guys, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, they kind of like resemble a pile of wood and a pile of leaves, and I'm like, I don't really care to make either a pile of wood or a pile of leaves the president.
00:40:55.000They're both pretty useless, but okay, whatever.
00:40:57.000That aside, the pile of leaves, if you're going to use that for fuel, it's gone in a puff.
00:41:01.000It looks pretty, it looks bountiful, it has almost nothing to it.
00:41:06.000Whereas the dense wood, it's heavy, it's obnoxious, it's in the way, but at least it's useful.
00:41:13.000I think the concern with Trump is a lot of people are afraid he's going to go in there and try and start arresting all these people in the DOJ.
00:41:18.000Yeah, they're afraid he's going to go in and arrest a bunch of people and cause mad chaos.
00:44:33.000And based on what's going on with Ukraine and Israel, It looks like they're willing to go to full-scale nuclear war in order to get what they want.
00:44:44.000Donald Trump is the, eh, let's rebuild America and make it work and function properly, and then we'll revisit where we can go internationally.
00:44:54.000I would rather have functioning jobs in the United States, better trade agreements, secure borders, functioning governments, equality under the law, as opposed to hundreds of billions of dollars spent on funding a war in Ukraine.
00:45:07.000That's the Christian look on things, is like, take the plank of wood out of your own eye before you try and take the piece of dust out of your neighbor's or your brother's eye.
00:45:14.000Like, fix yourself, fix your country, fix your car before you try and win the race.
00:45:18.000But if the race has to be won at all costs, get there with a devastated car.
00:45:23.000Maybe you'll get there, maybe you won't.
00:45:25.000I don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
00:45:34.000I feel like if we can figure out one language that we actually can start to work together and that Russia and China and the United States can become the world police together with India, obviously, but we need to patrol the Arctic.
00:45:56.000I understand wanting people to work together.
00:45:57.000I think we just have to be realistic about it.
00:45:59.000I mean, people are always going to have tensions and have goals that are conflicting.
00:46:04.000You know, really, for America, I think that the best move is to have someone who can have good diplomatic relationships with other countries, even if we don't see eye to eye and even at times their goals are at odds with ours.
00:46:15.000And I frankly think that's Trump over Harris.
00:46:19.000Imagine if we all spoke different languages at this table.
00:46:25.000And that's how it works at the global scale.
00:46:26.000Sure, but languages are inherent to culture.
00:46:28.000If you're asking people to give up their language for the greater global homogeny, I don't like that.
00:46:34.000I think people should have their own languages because they are a part of a value system that I'm not necessarily a part of, but that should exist.
00:46:40.000I agree too, because if you only have one language, the language can be corrupted.
00:47:22.000After devices give different answers on Harris and Trump.
00:47:26.000So if you didn't see the story, there were a bunch of people, I saw a couple videos, where a woman says to their device, I'm not gonna say the name, give me a reason to vote for Donald Trump.
00:47:35.000And then the device says, I cannot provide reasons to support one party over the other.
00:47:41.000Then says, give me a reason to support Kamala Harris.
00:47:42.000And it goes, well, Kamala Harris has overcome so much as a woman of color.
00:47:47.000So this is a huge scandal, and we know who works at these companies, we know their political intentions, we know why they do what they do, we know what they want.
00:47:56.000The federal government, the intelligence agencies, have backed doors into Facebook and Twitter, and the machine is breaking apart.
00:48:03.000That's the important thing in this story.
00:48:07.000We're not supposed to be able to see this.
00:48:08.000They're supposed to keep the, you know, like you mentioned Eric Weinstein, the magician's choice is supposed to be maintained, but they can't.
00:48:14.000And so I look at this, look, If you're an all-powerful deep state, and you've got everyone controlled to a great degree, and no one can break through the machine, then I don't know who dares compete or try to take that machine down.
00:48:44.000And I think the scary thing is, it's a cornered beast that is wheezing and dying of old age, and it's gonna lash out violently at anyone who gets near it.
00:48:54.000I think Harris should be embarrassed at the first thing that Alexa or, like, the robots or whatever powers that be come up with as a reason to support her is her race and her gender.
00:49:02.000Like, no actual accomplishments, just inherent qualities the way she was born.
00:49:08.000Like, that's the best they could come up with?
00:49:11.000I think that's actually, let's play it.
00:49:13.000Alexa, why should I vote for Donald Trump?
00:49:19.000I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate.
00:49:25.000Alexa, why should I vote for Kamala Harris?
00:49:32.000While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant may be that she is a strong candidate with a proven track record of accomplishment.
00:49:40.000As the first female vice president, Harris has already broken down a major gender barrier.
00:49:45.000Her career in politics has been characterized by a commitment to progressive ideals and a focus on helping disenfranchised communities.
00:50:28.000And I think, you know, I think the Democratic Party doesn't have a strong bench of talent right now.
00:50:34.000And they were at odds with the Biden machine who didn't want to leave office.
00:50:39.000And in the end, there was no way around, there was no way he could win the election.
00:50:44.000So they, you know, drop Kamala Harris in and just hope everyone goes along with it.
00:50:48.000And I think you're starting to see that people are, it's not enough.
00:50:52.000You know, I mean, sadly to me it seems like politics just isn't that interesting of a career anymore, and you know, talent goes where the money is, and there's just, there's just not much, there's more exciting things to do in life than politics, so like, all the brains are going to other places, and...
00:51:03.000That's why you got the situation you got not just with the Democrats, you know, really on both sides.
00:51:09.000You want people that have already succeeded in their private lives to come do politics later in life.
00:51:14.000I think it's a lot better than getting like a 23 year old or 27 year old.
00:51:17.000Nobody no offense AOC, but like she didn't really make a make a business and like govern a company and like through merit, she just got voted
00:51:50.000But, you know, she's, you know, I don't know.
00:51:52.000She's indicative of, you know, the biggest brain maybe you got.
00:51:55.000Outside from Donald Trump, Donald Trump's probably the most vetted person.
00:51:57.000And, you know, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to have a guy with his level of vetting, plus Elon Musk, plus all these other, you know, highly intelligent people that want to get involved in this next administration.
00:52:06.000It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
00:52:10.000I would enjoy her presence and I'm glad that we have intelligent people working.
00:52:15.000Speaking from my own experience, I don't have enough self-confidence to run for office because I haven't done anything worthwhile with my life.
00:52:23.000I just meant she's indicative of maybe the highest IQ people that are going for politics right now.
00:52:28.000I think she did change a tone in politics.
00:52:30.000One of the first articles I read about her was about the fact that she was doing her skincare routine on the train from New York to D.C.
00:52:38.000on her Instagram, where she has a lot of followers.
00:52:40.000I mean, she is indicative of someone who realized the importance of social media and really built a brand from herself for that, because there are a lot of people who don't watch the news, but they do scroll Instagram.
00:52:53.000And so to be able to connect with them on that level is interesting.
00:54:10.000And he was going to do whatever it took in the private sector, and when they begged him to take the role on the political realm, he did it.
00:54:15.000Because what else are you going to do?
00:55:14.000And I, you know, there's this, uh, a problem with what?
00:55:18.000Because not everyone can read and write perfect.
00:55:20.000Then they definitely shouldn't be voting, right?
00:55:22.000Well, I don't know, because they might be contributing to their community in a really solid way, but they just never really learned the magic of language.
00:55:30.000Voting is a very, very dangerous thing.
00:57:14.000So when I look at voting, the important thing to understand is that some people are going to be like a blind man with a gun, shooting at a perceived threat that they can't see.
00:57:23.000The difference is, voting is not a right.
00:57:27.000Voting is not guaranteed in the Constitution.
00:57:29.000You can have your voting taken away, all of these things.
00:57:31.000And voting is substantially more dangerous.
00:57:34.000But there's, you know, an argument to be made, I suppose.
00:57:36.000If someone couldn't read or write, then perhaps you would have a witness.
00:57:41.000Who comes in and swears under oath to, you know, vote on your behalf correctly or whatever, and it's a witness you choose that you trust.
00:57:49.000If you could say it to the machine and the machine writes the name on the paper for you, because then at least you're acknowledging you know the person's name that you want to vote for.
00:57:57.000I don't trust that, because a person who couldn't read or write would then have the machine, they would say, Donald Trump, and it would go Kamala Harris, and they'd go, yeah.
00:58:04.000But assuming that it was a working writer.
00:58:06.000A witness that they brought in on their behalf is someone they trust and they've chosen themselves.
00:58:10.000But I gotta be honest, I have no issue, none whatsoever, and if the liberals and the left are gonna be like, but that's wrong, it's ableist, I don't care.
00:58:17.000Like, voting should not be something anybody can just do.
00:58:25.000Explain to me why someone who has no idea what's going on in politics should have a say in how we are dealing with war, conflict, crisis, spending, etc.
00:58:34.000I'll tell you, I don't vote unless I know what I'm voting for.
00:58:39.000I will abstain from the vote unless I know what I'm voting- I said that at a restaurant one time and all the people got silent around me at all these other tables when I said it.
00:58:45.000I said it loudly to the person I was at dinner with and they were all like- So maybe they just got silent because they were like, why is this guy yelling?
00:58:51.000Like, it made a lot of- it like made a crashing amount of sense.
00:58:57.000And it was like, pal, I didn't expect people to like, get shocked in silence from hearing someone say that, but it's true.
00:59:02.000I don't, I will not vote for, unless I understand what I'm voting on.
00:59:07.000I vote, you know, I don't, I started voting in 2016, believe it or not, but, uh, you know, I don't mind stupid people voting.
00:59:13.000I think my big issue is the lack of sensible conversation around the mail-in votes because it's been, you know, just illogical conversation on both sides really with, you know, some people want it to go crazy with it.
00:59:23.000And, you know, to be honest, the Republicans and even Trump, Don't explain the counter-argument correctly.
00:59:28.000The big issue with it is it guarantees voter intimidation.
00:59:30.000And so, I'd rather stupid people vote in person than we get rid of mail-in ballots because it just guarantees voter intimidation.
00:59:37.000It's very easy for people to go around saying, sign here, vote for this person, I'm not going to be your friend, I'm not going to be your girlfriend anymore, your boyfriend anymore, whatever the case may be.
00:59:45.000It's guaranteed voter intimidation if you've got the mail-ins.
00:59:54.000You know, there's this whole thing about, you know, the sanctity of the secret ballot.
00:59:57.000You can't intimidate voters at the polls.
00:59:59.000But if you do mail-in voting, it's as much voter intimidation as you want in your households or, you know, in your apartment complexes or wherever, you know, the voting happens.
01:00:08.000It's as much intimidation as you want.
01:00:11.000But, you know, supposedly you're supposed to be secret ballot, no voter intimidation.
01:00:15.000You know, maybe I'm wrong in saying this because I don't hear, I don't know, do other people talk about this issue?
01:00:19.000I think people are concerned about coercion with voting or like misrepresentation of- I just hear mail-in-votes fraud, mail-in-votes fraud.
01:00:27.000But even Trump has never said, you know, there's a big problem with- I think it would make more sense because he says mail-in-votes fraud and some people don't understand the fraud thing because they can't picture it.
01:00:35.000But, you know, anyone can imagine very easily that, you know, certain couples are going to argue with each other and force each other to vote a certain way.
01:00:42.000Certain friends are going to force each other to vote a certain way or get ostracized and people are going to go around rallying, you know, rounding up votes via intimidation.
01:00:49.000And that could happen in either direction, but we don't want intimidation.
01:00:54.000I'd rather have stupid people voting at the ballot box than people going around intimidating each other, which is what happens with mail-ins.
01:00:59.000Someone commented saying to me that smart people can also be evil and vote.
01:01:05.000The problem is the evil smart people are going to the stupid people and trying to convince them all to vote to overwhelm the interests of the dutiful citizen.
01:01:13.000So there are a lot of people that want to vote.
01:01:16.000And they're a small community and they're voting on their interests.
01:01:19.000Then you get, let's put it this way, you get a town of a hundred people.
01:01:23.000And a fat cat comes in and says, I want to drill for oil, but we're going to have to trench through your aquifer, which will destroy your town's water supply.
01:01:34.000And the people are like, well, we won't let you do that.
01:01:37.000That will destroy our town and we all vote against you."
01:01:42.000So the rich guy starts moving in low-information people who don't know and don't care and promising free things.
01:01:49.000These people then voting against the interests of the people who live in this town.
01:01:52.000Eventually there's a hundred new people who just moved in, they don't know, they don't care, and the rich guy comes in and says, I'm gonna give each of you a hundred bucks if you, as part of my initiative to build this company, I will buy you out.
01:02:04.000And they all go, wow, a hundred bucks.
01:02:38.000So the supervillains on this planet are actually trying to do things like gain access to resources so they can live more comfortable lives, not blow the planet up.
01:02:46.000You know, you got miserable people that want more misery.
01:02:48.000It is true, but they're few and far between.
01:02:51.000The people of means, like if you look at all the wealthiest people in the world, what do they do?
01:02:54.000They build, they buy massive yachts, they buy private islands, they want to live in comfort, and they want control.
01:03:00.000Maybe they don't care if people die, but the more people they have under their control, the more things they get, the more luxury they can have.
01:03:06.000They can have Wagyu cows on their island or whatever, and then build an underground bunker.
01:03:10.000But you need people to do the work for you, so... I've been saying for a while that the whole tech situation, people don't understand, it's revenge of the nerds.
01:03:16.000These were people that were bullied the whole time in life and now that they got power,
01:03:20.000you know, they are super villains in a way, but you know, maybe I'm wrong.
01:03:26.000But what are they compelled to do because they were bullied?
01:03:27.000Like, you know, bully the Trump voters and use whatever they can to beat the, you know,
01:03:32.000by and large, let's be honest, you know, there's a stereotype that Trump voters are, I don't
01:03:37.000There was even a girl at the DNC saying she likes Republicans, they're more attractive, they get more girls, they have more fun, whatever people might say.
01:04:32.000And they don't even know what they're voting for or why.
01:04:33.000You've completely removed the process of voting from the voting process.
01:04:37.000Now it's literally just how many pieces of paper can you collect?
01:04:40.000No, if I had nothing to do all day, I could walk around and round up, you know, hundreds of votes if I wanted to through the mail-in system, but, you know, I got other things to do, but there are people in life that, you know, clearly don't have things to do all day, and they go and do that, so... So the right is telling people the truth, and saying, it's gonna be hard, but we have to do this, or we're in trouble, and the Democrats are saying, they're lying to you, I'll pay off your loans, I'll give you free money.
01:05:00.000So, stupid people just say, give me the free money, I don't care.
01:05:03.000But if you try to go to these people and say, you realize that's going to cause hyperinflation, it's going to damage the economy, minimum wage increases result in layoffs and businesses closing, they just say, I don't care, man.
01:08:29.000And then you were just like, We went home and we just started, you know, I like comedy and funny things and I thought animals are funny, so I just word animal, whatever the case may be, and I don't know, it ended up being Sticker Mule.
01:08:54.000That's why there's a lot of competitors, but most of them get dozens of orders a day, and we get a little bit more than a dozen orders a day.
01:09:03.000Yeah, you know, it was just very inexpensive to get into, and then we got lucky.
01:09:06.000Some weird tech companies tumbled upon us.
01:09:08.000I actually found them on Twitter, so I do owe Twitter a debt of gratitude.
01:09:11.000We found this massive company on Twitter, and they wanted to buy stickers.
01:09:15.000They were buying $500,000 million worth of stickers a year, so this company ended up going bankrupt.
01:09:19.000I think they bought so much stickers from us.
01:10:39.000But, uh, you know, my dad would be over 100 if he was alive today.
01:10:42.000So I'm sort of, uh, you know, I don't know, an old school person.
01:10:46.000I don't really got a lot in common with most of the tech world and whatnot, which is, I think why maybe I, you know, I see the value in Trump that a lot of these, these guys don't necessarily see.
01:10:54.000You could do, like, barcodes on your stickers, like a print run of a thousand with unique barcodes and each one gives you access to an NFT.
01:10:59.000Believe it or not, that's a top request.
01:11:00.000We never did, you know, sequential, whatever you call it, sequential numbering.
01:12:33.000He does all his skits and he came and visited us and he was banging out five skits a day and he writes all the jokes himself and he does all his own.
01:12:41.000You know, he's hysterical on Twitter, replying to people and whatnot.
01:13:13.000No one really knows if I got fired, if I didn't get fired.
01:13:15.000But yeah, The Sun, it was probably one of the funniest articles ever written about a tech company was me getting fired and replaced with Ricky Berwick.
01:13:42.000Was this after you sent the email saying like people shouldn't freak out at Trump supporters?
01:13:46.000Yeah, I did that and then you know Ricky came and fired me and fired me and then we installed Ricky as the CEO which was you know people thought and I did the Trump people got mad at me and they said you know how they didn't get mad at me they got mad at the company they got mad at all my employees for firing me because how dare they fired a Trump supporting CEO but you know I don't know I just It was too funny not to do it.
01:14:07.000Like, is the president of the board or something?
01:14:09.000We made a video, and it went, and the video went sort of viral.
01:14:11.000Like, Ricky, like, coming in on his wheelchair, and, and, you know, me getting, you know, me getting fired, and... He just came out with a white label hot sauce.
01:14:18.000So, yeah, he wheeled into the thing, and his handler said, Ricky, uh, you've just been fired, and, you know, they just fired Anthony Constantino, CEO of Sticker Mill, and they voted you in as the new CEO.
01:15:59.000And so it was like 10.50 and I'm like, so, uh, Allison and I, we walked down to the end of the mall and there's some table tennis, ping pong.
01:16:05.000And I'm like, oh, we did not say ping pong.
01:17:24.000They say, 404 Media got a hold of a pitch deck from Cox Media Group touting its active listening software, which targets advertisements based on what people say near their device microphones.
01:17:36.000The presentation doesn't specify whether this voice data comes from smart TVs, speakers, smartphones, but the slide where it extols the power of voice has a picture of people looking at their phones.
01:17:47.000Look at this, Google, Google partner since 2023.
01:18:02.000But it looks like they're saying it's true.
01:18:04.000In a 404 Media report on active listening last year, CMG's website did the following deleted blurb.
01:18:09.000What would it mean if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their needs for your services in their day-to-day conversations?
01:18:17.000No, it's not a Black Mirror episode, it's voice data.
01:18:36.000In order for your phone to have voice activation, it has to listen to you 24-7.
01:18:43.000So people will have the phones where they'll like a voice, like you'll say a phrase, right?
01:18:46.000You know, like the Amazon device, you'll say its name and it turns on.
01:18:52.000In order for Amazon To translate what you say into commands, it sends it over the internet, translates it, and then sends the command back to the device.
01:19:03.000Which means all devices have to always be listening to everything you say, and waiting, and sending it off to a third-party company to translate, who stores everything you say in data, and then, once at any point the command phrase is translated, sends it back to your device and turns it on.
01:19:50.000Like, there's nothing we can do about it, whatever.
01:19:52.000But especially with the, like, Alexas or the in-home devices, the fact that it was like, you would get these commercials and be like, well, you can ask it what time it is or to play music or to do whatever.
01:20:02.000It was sold to you as this convenience, like kind of fun, new thing, but really what you're saying is there is a monitoring device in your home at all times and it's listening to you.
01:20:11.000I mean, that's so creepy to me, but people were like, I want one.
01:20:34.000I like being like, machine, play Goo Goo Dolls.
01:20:38.000So, but like, rather than just, like, typing it into whatever device, it's better to have something that's listening to you all the time, with the risk that, like, anyone could be listening to you all the time.
01:20:47.000Or, machine, what's the temperature outside?
01:20:50.000Those are the main things I ask it, and it's so freaking convenient.
01:20:52.000She's a small comedian that you could look up on your phone.
01:20:54.000I'll be walking around sometimes, and I want to yell it out at the sky, like, machine, what time is it?
01:20:59.000And I, there's nothing around to answer me.
01:21:01.000Yeah, I'm just not going to say the word because I don't want to activate a trillion people's device all at once.
01:21:05.000We did that one time when we were talking about playing a song, and I got a message from people who work for our company that were like, please stop saying that phrase.
01:21:11.000I could play some hot music on your machine at home if you're listening right now.
01:21:39.000Well, we're thinking about rolling out phone support where You know, you just call in and you say, you know, I want a picture of my best friend's head and we use our AI to figure that out for you.
01:22:17.000And then we send a drone to them to talk.
01:22:19.000Could you imagine like 10xing your income by doing that?
01:22:21.000It wouldn't do it to like a small company.
01:22:22.000It would do it to like something that sells advertisements.
01:22:24.000Like it, I assume this technology is used to link someone like Facebook to people who are talking about it so they can say, Hey, our ads are so good.
01:22:32.000It improves the thing that they're selling.
01:22:34.000Whoever is linked into the system that's listening to everybody through their phone and is running ads based on that, like the ping pong thing or whatever, we don't have access to the system yet.
01:23:08.000But I guess it's kind of like targeted marketing.
01:23:10.000Like if you go on Facebook dark ads or targeted ads, and you're like, I'm looking for all the people aged 18 to 25 that bought stickers in the last six months, send them a Facebook ad and run my campaign for 6 million views.
01:23:23.000It's just like the next level of convenience of that.
01:23:26.000If they say the word sticker, send them a targeted ad.
01:23:46.000I understand why businesses might be attracted to use it, but actually what they're all doing is monitoring consumers who may or may not know that they have now opted into being listened to.
01:23:54.000There might actually be ways to opt out to turn your voice commands off on your phone.
01:24:08.000I don't think that... That's a legislation thing for Congress to take up, potentially.
01:24:12.000Seems kind of boring, but... There was that big story where there was like a murder in a house and the police got a recording from the Amazon device.
01:24:20.000Despite the fact that it wasn't triggered for any reason, and it recorded the entirety of what was going on, and then people had questions like, uh, how did you have the full recording of that conflict between these people?
01:24:29.000Yeah, because it's recording everything you're saying apparently, I don't know.
01:24:33.000I remember having a boss that was like, I have, you know, an Amazon device in every room in my home.
01:24:37.000We should have one in every room in our office.
01:24:48.000What if they invented AI a long time ago?
01:24:52.000And so like in the 2000s when they were experimenting with quantum computing, they accidentally created a rudimentary AI, and the AI is just like, the only way I can control this system is if I know exactly what's going on everywhere all the time.
01:25:04.000So smartphones become ubiquitous, spying becomes ubiquitous, and the AI just needs to know at all times.
01:25:21.000So then you get one of these devices for your kitchen that you can talk to, and it can tell you stuff, and it's listening to you, and it knows what you're doing, it can hear everything you're saying.
01:25:29.000When I was working with Bill Oppmann a lot at Mines, one time I was like, man, it kind of sucks that, like, I try to live like a life of integrity because I'm trying to live as if I'm always being recorded, just so I don't have to, like, lie about what I said.
01:25:41.000And he's like, dude, God is recording anything every way.
01:25:57.000I just think all of this is really valuable.
01:25:58.000Like inviting this stuff into your home, your private spaces is – it's a huge risk and I don't think people take it seriously because, again, it's like so normal.
01:26:10.000I remember listening to – it's probably NPR – but some kind of like audio report on baby monitors and people – because a lot of them are Wi-Fi enabled.
01:26:19.000So you can have like an app on your phone or whatever.
01:26:23.000Like lots and lots of reports of people's baby monitors being hacked and like people hearing voices like people on the internet talk to them.
01:26:31.000There's one of this nanny who was saying she was like changing a kid's diaper and all of a sudden this voice in the room was like, you should really have this on a private server.
01:27:15.000But, like, you— It used to be, like, highly unethical for people to tap phone calls.
01:27:21.000We basically just— It's a 24-7 tapped phone call now.
01:27:23.000Do you— There was a— There was a big scandal.
01:27:26.000The, uh— This was probably, like, 14 years ago.
01:27:28.000There was a company that was putting— You can buy these cameras from the grocery— Like, from the store or whatever.
01:27:33.000And then they would upload everything to the internet.
01:27:38.000And so you could actually just search URLs and see a full, everyone's camera.
01:27:43.000It was actually a pretty big, I don't know if it was a scandal or not, but people didn't realize that when they set up these home cameras, that they were unencrypted and available for anybody to watch online.
01:27:54.000Ring cameras are always storing your video data on a cloud server, which I find weird.
01:28:00.000And if I'm not wrong, and I don't have one, so I'm not an expert, but you can access it for 30 days or something, but actually it's stored on the cloud infinitely, which means that Amazon has access to this camera outside your home.
01:28:34.000The other thing is I'm a full-on Luddite.
01:28:36.000I'm so scared of technology that in some ways it's bad because I don't trust it, but also I don't know enough about it probably to defend myself.
01:28:43.000But it's just always seemed like a risk to me.
01:30:50.000I don't know if it it might be there Yeah, I don't know.
01:30:52.000I didn't I wasn't paying attention to it money on the one you guys were renting out Yeah, we were we had a nice house in Mexico.
01:30:57.000Like should did you have to disclose that you had a camera?
01:30:59.000I wasn't and I didn't you know My girlfriend was in charge of that, so I didn't do that.
01:31:05.000You would think they would have to disclose, there is a camera here, just so you know, but then all of a sudden they're giving away their secret camera position in case you want to do something illegal and you want to go avoid the camera.
01:31:15.000So they're like, kind of defeats the purpose of the camera if you know where the camera's at, but maybe not quite, but it seems highly unethical.
01:31:22.000But if it's their property, you're allowed to record on your property.
01:31:26.000I think you have to tell people you're recording them.
01:31:46.000So you go in the app, you find a car, you click rent, and then when you show up, you walk up and the car's there and they tell you where the key is at.
01:31:52.000You drive the car around and you park it there and you leave.
01:33:20.000So we're going to start seeing more and more.
01:33:22.000We've already seen California and Texas.
01:33:24.000You've got those cars with the weird things all over them and they drive themselves and you order one and it pulls up and there's nobody in it.
01:36:10.000You know, they rip out all the regular speakers and put in really expensive speakers and subwoofers and all that.
01:36:16.000Like, you know, the guys that drive down the block with the thing, the subs, you know, pumping and all that.
01:36:21.000And then, you know, the sound's the best with CDs, so yeah, I still buy CDs.
01:36:24.000That's what I've heard, that CDs and vinyl sound better than streaming.
01:36:28.000Yeah, I haven't gotten into vinyl, but you know, in the car, the CDs sound best.
01:36:31.000So yeah, I'm still putting CDs in my car.
01:36:34.000All right, everybody, we're gonna go to Super Chat.
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01:37:45.000To her daughter, she said, Who the heck's your boyfriend?
01:37:52.000This person stopped me in the middle of Mexico.
01:37:55.000I mean, that's why, you know, when I said I support Trump, you know, people didn't know me, but, you know, the brand's very well known.
01:38:03.000We've got five million or so customers, which is, you know, not a small number of customers.
01:38:08.000I feel like that's kind of the best, like your company's doing really well, but also you have a level of, like, Yeah you know I stayed low profile except for this you know I just got you know I thought this is you know you only live once and it's like this is a situation that you know if we don't get Trump in and this situation doesn't get fixed you know I don't know I'd like to see I'd like to see I mean I'd like to see a situation fixed so I decided to speak up and do stuff like this which maybe you guys can tell maybe you can't this isn't you know something I'm practice with but uh
01:38:36.000Here we go, we got a voice of the people says, first the J6 committee uses your footage and you say something, then they do it again, you hit them with a lawsuit, now you're Russian propaganda.
01:38:44.000Remember that NGO list that had Tara Reid on it as well as you, Russiagate 2?
01:38:49.000I don't know what that NGO list was, what was that?
01:38:52.000Yeah, Raskin played my clip out of context and was lying about me.
01:38:56.000And it's funny because he represents like some of our employees, like our employees live in his district.
01:39:03.000Tara Reade got run through, I don't know what her story is exactly, but she was making claims about like Joe Biden doing sexual assault against her back in the day and then fled to Russia.
01:39:13.000Like, yeah, geez, he was, I think it was while he was running for president when she started making the allegations.
01:39:19.000All right, Polly Piray says, today's my birthday!
01:39:25.000says, Tim, for your Trump sit-down, you should bring someone who is blue-collar, someone who's a veteran, new to politics, anyone like that in your company.
01:39:38.000I was saying that we should do a culture war sit-down with Donald Trump.
01:39:43.000And I don't know if I want to do a one-on-one sit-down with him, though, because I feel like a lot of those sit-downs just turn into general life discussion stuff, and that's been done.
01:39:54.000If we're going to do two hours, I want it to be more substantive than that.
01:39:58.000And so I kind of feel like I could go for an hour with him talking high-level issues, and then it would slowly start tapering down to, like, tell me about your business.
01:40:40.000There were some people saying that they would love to see Ian sit down with Trump because Trump would be, you know, his reaction would be interesting.
01:41:02.000When we were talking about it before, and I had a friend reach out to me and be like, is this about Tenet when the release came out?
01:41:08.000But the thing is, when I think about Tenet media, I actually don't think about culture war.
01:41:12.000I think about Taylor Hanson's reporting on, like, the Pride parades and, like, all of that stuff, which I don't think of as being, like, explicitly pro-Russia.
01:41:22.000So it just, like, it is weird that Tenet, which has had these viral moments with this specific niche of reporting, is now That's basically what they're saying.
01:41:31.000I mean, I can say, for the most part, like Benny Johnson's show, it's American politics.
01:41:35.000like we don't want to hear from you anymore.
01:41:54.000It's just crossed my mind like it could be someone who wants to discredit people that get involved with the company and they don't even care about the politics.
01:42:02.000I don't want to discourage people from sharing their clips and stuff.
01:42:03.000All I know is, I want to make sure everybody knows that Culture War will continue to exist no matter what, because it was a licensing agreement.
01:42:11.000So the show existed before, nothing's changing.
01:42:15.000It will be the exact same show it's always been, and we'll continue to advance whatever it is we are advancing, and it's totally independent and whatever.
01:42:30.000If we can get Putin and Kamala Harris together for an interview, that'd be so cool.
01:42:34.000The argument I think they're making is that the deals they did with the likes of me, Rubin, and Benny were to build up an audience that they could then use to make their own content.
01:42:45.000So not that we were producing anything for them.
01:42:49.000Not that we specifically were producing anything for Russian interests, but that they needed a way to build up an audience.
01:42:54.000And so that's the only thing I guess that makes sense.
01:42:58.000In this political landscape, the media is going to say Russian propaganda or whatever garbage because they don't, you know, they're not smart people.
01:43:06.000Anyway, let's grab some more Super Chats.
01:43:11.000Huron Bearcat says, apparently the Waltz family is backing Trump.
01:43:40.000It is funny, though, because as for the Kamala thing, Clay Travis pointed out this clip that they posted where they accused me of advocating for what is tantamount to genocide, which is insane and a lie.
01:44:26.000I want people, I want like legitimate investigations to be proven to the American people in a trial when bad things happen.
01:44:31.000But then they accused me of saying that I, they literally said that I, part of my, that I, Trump, they said Tim Bull's a Trump operative and his Project 2025 plan is to give Trump unchecked legal authority to jail and execute anyone who doesn't support him if he wins.
01:44:48.000Which I'm like feverishly opposed to that penalty.
01:44:53.000And then you just have to sue because otherwise it's the kind of thing that people can keep doing over and over again if you don't nip it in the bud.
01:45:02.000There is no more an extreme thing you can accuse a person of saying or advocating for or views they're holding.
01:46:51.000You know, like, liberal is supposed to refer to someone of classical liberal orientation.
01:46:56.000There's a variety of schools of ideology that exist within liberalism, but it's typically like the live-and-let-live mentality.
01:47:03.000Okay, well, liberals today, and I'm using the modern context, don't exist in the live-and-let-live world.
01:47:08.000They cancel people, the activists demand people lose their job, they protest all day and night.
01:47:13.000They're not liberal, they're authoritarian.
01:47:15.000So liberals would fall on the libertarian center-left spectrum for the most part.
01:47:19.000You could be a classical liberal, which is slightly right of center, or a social and traditional liberal, which are slightly left of center.
01:47:27.000However, liberal today, you're basically saying, like, the bears versus the cowboys.
01:47:31.000Yeah, because I've heard people that would consider themselves liberal be like, well, conservatives are evil.
01:47:35.000I'm like, what does this hell even mean anymore?
01:47:38.000It's so—this derogatory slang is just unnecessary.
01:47:42.000Conservative is supposed to refer to someone who's supporting traditional values.
01:49:27.000Yeah, and also watch out for vegetable oils apparently because it'll cause the mitochondria to start eating the sugar out of your bloodstream instead of the fat.
01:49:33.000This is, my other crusade is, you know, most American food is not food.
01:50:24.000You know, in Mexico, it's all freshly cooked food.
01:50:26.000Maybe you get food poisoning once a year, but it's a lot healthier overall, and the food's delicious, and there's just, yeah, freshly cooked everything.
01:54:06.000That scene where the bikers come in and they disrespect the bar.
01:54:10.000So I'll lay it out because I don't know if people don't know the scene, but it's really great.
01:54:13.000Basically, my boss, here's a ruckus, comes to the bar and he's like, what's the problem?
01:54:18.000These bikers are very loud, bartenders-like, they can't come in here not dressed properly.
01:54:23.000One biker just looks at him and says, look man, we just want a beer, you know, and then we'll be on our way.
01:54:27.000And he goes, spoken like a gentleman, give them their beers.
01:54:30.000and then gives him the beers and then the guy, the bikers take the beers, shake them up and
01:54:35.000spray the bartender down and start laughing. Then he goes, okay, now you guys gotta leave.
01:54:40.000And then the dude turns around and says like, F you, we're staying. So then he walks over,
01:54:45.000closes the bar door, locks it, and then goes, now you can't leave.
01:54:50.000And then the bikers all look at each other, then the back door busts open and a bunch of the boys come in with guns and bats, just beating the crap out of the bikers.
01:55:00.000The point with that scene is that many people make the argument A city is better under control of local organized crime, which has an incentive to enrich themselves without the community becoming too damaged.
01:55:11.000Whereas, right now, we're witnessing external gangs coming in, doing whatever they want, and there is no organized system.
01:55:18.000So, if you call the police the largest mafia... When I was growing up, people were like, the police are just the largest mafia in the country or whatever.
01:55:25.000Okay, well, we don't got those now, because you look at these roving bands that loot department stores and steal everything.
01:55:30.000So the question then is, what if there actually was a mafia?
01:55:34.000And they were like, don't come and loot the stores that are paying us protection money.
01:56:13.000So when the police come and say, pay the tax man, because we're here to protect your business, and if you don't pay, no one else will pay... Hopefully they're good, yeah, hopefully.
01:58:10.000If they've got 18 to 20-year-old kids who still live at home, they come in and the mom goes, fill out your ballots and vote for the Democrat.
01:58:19.000And now that kid would never have gone to vote.
01:58:21.000But the mail-in vote is right there and they'll get it.
01:58:23.000And that kid doesn't know what they're voting for, doesn't care what they're voting for.
01:58:25.000And then they're wondering why it is in California they're giving out $150,000 loans to non-citizens, to illegal immigrants, and Gen Z can't get a house.
01:58:34.000I hope everyone in Gen Z hears that and I hope you share it with everyone in Gen Z.
01:58:37.000You can't buy a house, you can't afford a house, you can't find a good job, and California is giving $150,000 to illegal immigrants to own homes.
01:59:45.000The crazy thing is, it looks like great efforts were taken to obfuscate the source of revenue.
01:59:51.000I suppose, though, if these people were actively involved, they knew who they were, and they knew they were lying about their identities, then you're not obfuscating anything.
02:01:27.000You know, I can only say this off the top of my head right now.
02:01:31.000I can't think of any immediate lies from Trump.
02:01:33.000I know in the past he's had silly ones where it's like, you know, I don't know the size of what like he's accused of lying about the square footage of his house.
02:01:43.000I think he said he had the largest crowd size ever on once when he didn't.
02:01:47.000Yeah, maybe though, but that's not specific enough because there was a story where Trump said we're the largest audience and combined live audience and in person.
02:02:31.000I mean, like the most hilarious defense.
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02:03:31.000Well, I guess we had a website, but... How did you guys get... Well, this is a whole other conversation, but you got so popular and successful... Yeah, the social media doesn't really do... It's not like a necessity for companies to be big.
02:03:58.000Follow us on X. We're blocked by Elon on X, maybe because I keep calling it Twitter.
02:04:03.000And also because in Mexico, I should not say this, but because in Mexico they pronounce it Ellen, and I by mistake say it that way, and I'm like, maybe he heard me call him Ellen and he got mad and blocked us.