On today's show, we discuss the Epstein grand jury release, the Trump/D.D.G.A. merger, the new trailer for Eyes of Advice, and much, much more! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Florida passes a bill to release all of Epstein's grand jury documents from 2006 4:40 - Trump's SEC gets SEC approval for the DWAC merger 6:30 - Trump doubles his net worth 9:15 - Election Night Live is coming soon 11:20 - 7.3 million illegal immigrants entering the country 13:00 15:00 -- President Trump is now worth over $4 billion 16:10 - President Trump gets a $100 million fine 17:30 18:15 What's next for the Epstein case?
00:00:21.000Florida has passed a bill to release all of the Epstein grand jury documents from 2006 and Ron DeSantis announced he will be signing this into law and they will immediately release all of these Epstein documents from the initial original charges against them.
00:00:38.000It was a bill put forward by a Democrat, I believe, and unanimously approved.
00:01:00.000So all the haters gonna hate, but doesn't matter because Trump is, he's tripling his net worth right now.
00:01:05.000They can try and do, they can do everything they want to him.
00:01:08.000It seems like a lot of the moves they're making against him not only advance their crackpot ideology, but also tie up Trump's funds in an election year where he needs them.
00:01:18.000Now Trump has mentioned When Engeron, the judge in his case, said $354 million plus $100 million in interest, it looks as though he looked at Trump's bank account and said, I want all of your money.
00:01:29.000Because that's basically what the ruling is.
00:01:31.000All of Trump's available cash on hand is what they're fining him for, which is an arbitrary number that comes from nowhere.
00:01:36.000So it seems like that's what they're trying to do with this dwag deal.
00:01:39.000Trump's gonna be doing pretty alright, but we'll see.
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00:05:01.000Yeah, I've been writing books with Brave Books for the last year or so and mixing it up with Drag Queens and the American Library Association and even Scholastic Books and trying to get Parents and grandparents fired up about taking back the leadership role in their kids' education.
00:05:19.000I think education is critically important and as a father and soon to be grandfather, I want to lean in and do my part to do everything that we can to save this culture for our kids.
00:05:28.000Yeah, I mean, and that's why we're really excited to have you and we wanted to have you for a while because one big issue in the culture war, of course, is the drag story hours.
00:05:36.000I'm talking about the event we're doing in Martinsburg at our coffee shop.
00:05:43.000Once we officially open the shop, the plan I have for Saturday mornings is something I call Saturday morning cartoons, where we want to open up early, maybe 7 a.m., we want to have catered breakfast, parents can come with their kids, and on the TVs will be family-approved educational kids content cartoons.
00:06:01.000The kids can hang out socially, you know, be social, interact, the parents can share ideas, and I feel like This is how we build community back in our areas.
00:06:10.000It's how we can help, you know, I'm a big fan of what The Daily Wire is doing with Bent Key and this kid's content.
00:06:16.000And so I think not only are we going to help build up that kind of content and create a culture, or strengthen the culture of actual good family-friendly content, but when the parents get together and start talking, it creates organization where they can actually affect change.
00:06:30.000And when bad things start happening in the community, We, of course, can then have an organized group of parents and leaders who can push back.
00:06:37.000But I bring this up because even in Martinsburg, West Virginia, you've got all-ages drag shows they're trying to do.
00:06:43.000During Pride, next to our building, they had a drag show in the street and they brought children up on stage.
00:06:49.000And my attitude the whole time is like, if you're 18 and up and you want to have a private event, go have your private event.
00:06:55.000But the fact that they keep trying to pull kids into it is where I'm like, you're crossing the line.
00:06:59.000So the way we win this is we push back culturally, but we have to build.
00:07:03.000It's not just about being angry and complaining on the internet, it's about actually doing something.
00:07:07.000So that's why we're really excited, because you've basically been doing regular story time, and they've been really angry about you reading.
00:07:15.000I guess just like wholesome books to kids.
00:07:19.000The first book that I wrote was called As You Grow and it's a story of a little acorn that grows up into a big oak tree and teaches kids how to grow the sweet fruit of love, joy, kindness, gentleness, self-control during the different difficult seasons of their life.
00:07:34.000I wanted to read it at a public library and I was denied by over 50 woke libraries that had previously held Drag Queen Story Hours at those libraries.
00:07:45.000I'm sorry, I suppose I could have put on some high heels and fishnet stockings but I never look good in a skirt.
00:07:51.000I just went as myself and they said no and then I told some friends at the news and was able to remind them publicly that this is the United States of America viewpoint discrimination and theirs was religious viewpoint discrimination just because I'm a Christian and there was a Bible verse or two in the book is not grounds to tell me that I can't come to a public library when people want me there and have invited me there.
00:08:18.000So I told them I'd see them in court if they didn't change course.
00:08:23.000We showed up at the Indianapolis Public Library and had 3,000 parents and grandparents welcoming us, so much that it actually violated fire codes.
00:08:33.000And they were telling people to leave the floors, go down to other floors.
00:09:10.000The moms just sat down between the aisles of books in the libraries.
00:09:14.000They opened up their book bags and they just started reading to their kids and having story hours there and they were singing songs.
00:09:20.000It turned into like a God Bless America fest, reading songs of wholesome virtue to the kids in the libraries and everybody had a great time, even though technically they didn't get to see what they came for, but they were part of something that they knew was important and they were so grateful.
00:09:37.000This is amazing, and it is a tremendous victory culturally.
00:09:41.000So we'll get into all that more later in the show.
00:09:43.000We talk about the show you're doing in the book.
00:10:57.000From Florida's Voice, Florida Senate passes bill to set release of Epstein grand jury documents.
00:11:04.000The Florida Senate gave final approval to a bill that would permit the release of documents related to convicted sex offender and now deceased Jeffrey Epstein as part of a 2006 Florida grand jury investigation.
00:11:15.000The bill expands the rules for allowing the release of evidence and or testimony from a grand jury.
00:11:20.000Senator Tina Polsky, a Democrat from Boca Raton, filed the legislation.
00:11:24.000It passed the floor unanimously 37 to 0.
00:11:27.000At the time, Epstein escaped with far less severe punishment relating to allegations regarding his solicitation of minors for sexual activity.
00:11:36.000The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill last week unanimously.
00:11:56.000It also applies in the grand jury investigation was related to criminal or sexual activity between the subject and a
00:12:00.000minor at the time of the activity. However, it notes the court can still
00:12:04.000issue redactions and other restrictions on releasing testimony. Now, aside from this,
00:12:08.000Ron DeSantis has tweeted out, all files related to Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activity should be made public,
00:12:15.000When the federal government continues to stonewall accountability, I'm glad the legislature has taken action to release the grand jury material from the Florida state case.
00:13:15.000We'd love to see things like this come to fruition because we want accountability.
00:13:19.000I think that's what the biggest shift in the Jeffrey Epstein narrative is, is that people feel as though they can not only say out loud, he did these things and it was bad and had a terrible impact on people, but also there are other people who are being kept out of the narrative and whose names are being shielded because of this, and that's not okay.
00:13:37.000I think before there was a time where it sort of felt like, well, there's nothing we can do about it.
00:13:41.000And I like the return to demanding accountability.
00:13:45.000You asked me this as we're getting the story ready.
00:13:46.000You're like, how come we hear these things and like nothing happens?
00:14:09.000And so it's almost as I wish we recorded it because I said, well, something is happening.
00:14:14.000But I think because of the Internet, everybody expects everything to happen instantly, like the news breaks and then you're like, OK, something should happen.
00:14:21.000You know, when the when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, it was a year and a month after the war had already started.
00:15:01.000It's going to be terrifying and damning for these nasty people.
00:15:04.000They're going to be shaking in their boots, and we're better off for it.
00:15:08.000You're going to have a liberal aunt or uncle or grandfather or whatever, relative, neighbor.
00:15:14.000And when this stuff comes out and becomes undeniable, as it's already been doing, they won't be able to reject your ideas when you say, listen, you know, look, 10 years ago, you come out, you're talking to your neighbor and you say, you know, this Epstein guy's doing this stuff.
00:15:53.000You've got people like Matt Gaetz and AOC, you know, for as much as we'd criticize her, but they're not beholden to powerful lobbyists anymore.
00:16:01.000They're beholden to internet masses and their communities who will fund their campaigns with smaller donations.
00:16:08.000They can say F you to the big shots, so when their lobbyist comes in and says, I represent a guy who doesn't want these documents released, they go, that sucks for you, I guess.
00:16:15.000Now that people are demanding it, and funding it, and funding the change, and funding the politicians who are gonna make this change happen, the more we get information, the more we can convert regular people, get them on our side, you will start seeing politicians make bigger and bigger moves.
00:16:31.000So this is, this story is it happening.
00:16:34.000The documents come out in what, 2018, 2019?
00:17:08.000I don't know what's going to happen, because even if the data comes out and people are like, no, you didn't read that, you thought you read that, but you actually read this and they show you a different... I don't know.
00:17:18.000When AI starts manipulating... Oh my gosh.
00:17:21.000Well, we gotta figure that stuff out, that's for sure.
00:17:25.000But I think these kind of things happening, we can whittle it down to one simple point, it breaks the establishment narrative.
00:17:31.000Yeah, and also like the uniparty, the federal uniparty that probably has people involved with Epstein more than like state governments are kind of beholden to the states.
00:17:58.000What I get nervous about is, do you remember, what was the list that came out that everyone's like, oh, they're releasing Epstein's List, but it wasn't.
00:18:03.000It was just people who have been called to testify.
00:18:05.000And then they release these documents, and some are redacted, and they're out of order, and you don't really know.
00:18:10.000Not even testify, it was just names that were brought up in the case.
00:18:13.000That just appeared at any point, right?
00:18:15.000So that was sort of weird misinformation.
00:18:17.000I have this fear that while this is a victory and I don't want to take away from that, you know, you could theoretically roll out these documents in a way that presents information in a biased presentation.
00:18:29.000I just, I guess I wonder about what the effect will be long term.
00:18:35.000I really like what you guys are saying, and Tim, you're reminding me the importance of playing the long game.
00:18:40.000You're just talking about how much we want instant gratification.
00:18:43.000We see something like this, or we see the January 6th tapes, or we see something else, and we say, boom, we want justice to be served right now.
00:18:51.000I see the Marxists have done, the leftists have done, the progressives have done is they're really playing a long game and they say, hey, let's get a hold of public education and let's just work this for a really, really long time.
00:19:03.000And you might think, well, it's not working.
00:19:30.000Because he's got the same pieces you do, which means you need to figure out how to navigate that system to overcome his defenses and then checkmate his king.
00:19:38.000What we are seeing now is, sure, the January 6th tapes come out, more absentee information comes out.
00:19:43.000What this is, in Florida, We moved our bishop across the board and we're securing, you know, we're reinforcing one of our pieces, maybe putting a threat to one of their pieces on the board.
00:19:54.000We've not yet checkmated the opponent, but this is a part of the process where we are lining up the board for our victory.
00:19:59.000You know, that's so true, Kirk, about instant gratification.
00:20:02.000I think the society is kind of We've evolved or devolved.
00:20:05.000We've revolved into this sense of instant gratification with, you know, 30 second clips and likes and all that.
00:20:15.000The communist, as Yuri Besmanov talked a lot about, takes 20 years to infiltrate a country with the KGB.
00:20:21.000They'd be like, this is a Russian tactic, a Soviet tactic.
00:20:23.000As you get in there early, it takes you 10, 20 years.
00:20:25.000The Chinese, as far as I can tell, they're still fighting the opium wars from the 1890s.
00:20:30.000Now they're feeding fentanyl through Mexico.
00:20:32.000Because what happened was the British colonized off the east coast of China and just poured opium into China in the late 1800s and just toxified their civilianry and controlled their nation through addiction.
00:20:43.000And now they're still, it's like the memory is not lost.
00:20:46.000I also wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that so much of the American population gets their sense of how law enforcement and the justice system works through, like, Law & Order SVU.
00:20:55.000So you have this, like, neat little thing that ties up in, what, 40 minutes, 30 minutes?
00:20:59.000And it seems like, even though they'll put at the bottom, like, these are months apart, your brain is conditioned to think, but it happens back to back to back to back.
00:21:08.000I can't tell you, I mean, anybody who knows a cop, or has talked to a cop about it, they go, oh geez, I was talking to a cop out in West Virginia, and he was like, you will not believe it.
00:21:17.000We'll get like, someone will call in and say someone broke into my garage and stole my, you know, leaf blower or something, and we'll show up, we'll write, we'll take notes, and we'll say, thank you for your information, and they immediately respond with, well aren't you gonna dust for prints?
00:21:52.000And again, that is a lot of people's exposure to how any sort of legal proceeding works.
00:21:57.000It's crazy that it's been almost 20 years.
00:22:00.000The long game I guess is where we're at because I have been banging my head against the proverbial wall trying to fix the world in like in like a talk show in like a two-hour podcast and like dude there's that saying that you you plant trees that you'll never sit under the shade of you know you inspired Leonardo we're talking before the show like Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt got their start on your TV show in the 80s right and without even knowing it you were like mentoring those guys and showing them what a young actor could become and now like I guess that's where it's at is like teaching the children is helping the kids.
00:22:32.000Brad Pitt's watching right now being like, you know, Kirk was great.
00:22:37.000You know, this, I think, I don't know how many, I don't know who's listening to this program right now, but for the moms and dads out there who feel like, what can I do?
00:23:04.000They want to get to the children through TikTok, Instagram.
00:23:08.000Through Snapchat, through public schools, through whatever because whoever has the time to tell the stories and set the values in the hearts and minds of children gets to control the future.
00:23:32.000No, but you know what I think is really, really important is we've talked on this show about the importance of having families and here's what I love.
00:23:41.000Anybody who's ever played one of these strategy games like StarCraft or WarCraft or Command & Conquer?
00:23:48.000You just mass produce the lowest level fighter unit.
00:23:52.000So you ever see one of these video games where it's like you build a little base and then you'll like collect resources and then train soldiers.
00:23:58.000Instead of building the most intricate weapons and making your army have nukes, you just make millions of little soldiers.
00:24:04.000You send them all over to your enemy's base and they just, through just volume, wipe them out.
00:24:56.000I think the parents are really on the ground level of this Cold War battle because they are with their children.
00:25:01.000There's this line from the sociologist Neil Postman that children are a message to a future that you'll never be in.
00:25:07.000And it reminds me of the game of telephone, if you ever played that as a kid, where you like whisper a sentence in someone's ear.
00:25:11.000So to your point, if your children have strong values, strong messages, if they have a good understanding of history and the culture that, you know, could guide them to a better life, they are more likely to deliver the message clearly to the future that none of us will be a part of.
00:27:01.000I was like, yeah, little kids do little kid stuff.
00:27:02.000But that's like such an interesting part of the way children's brains develop.
00:27:05.000They have to learn that their actions have an impact on other people, you know?
00:27:08.000Like, I think that would be the cool thing about being able to work hands-on with children, if you're a teacher, or to have children as a parent, is that you have this direct impact and you get to see them grow and develop in real time.
00:27:19.000I think what's strange about so many people who don't have children but want to tell you what's good or bad for your children, that they should be at drag shows or what else, Is that they don't experience this at all?
00:27:29.000Let's jump to the story here from the Post-Millennial.
00:27:31.000Big news, ladies and gentlemen, SEC approves Trump truth social deal for up to $10 billion.
00:27:38.000So there it is, the long-awaited approval has happened.
00:27:42.000Donald Trump, this is the merger of DWAC with Trump.
00:27:46.000This is Truth Social and Digital World Acquisition Corporation.
00:27:48.000Let me slow down and explain to you basically what this means.
00:27:50.000In order to go public, you'd have to have a company, you'd have to reach a certain threshold, do a bunch of filings.
00:27:55.000What they do now are these special purpose acquisition companies that are already public, and then they merge with another company, effectively turning Company A merges with Company B, turning Company B into a publicly traded company, generating massive amounts of investment opportunity right away with their shares.
00:28:14.000Donald Trump's holings are worth about $4 billion.
00:28:17.000Now it looks like it may be moving forward much more quickly.
00:28:21.000The SEC approved the merger of approximately $10 billion dollars with a long wait on Wall Street, according to OAN.
00:28:27.000Trump Media and Technology Group, which owned both companies, intends to take TruthSocial in an initial public offering to have it go through the process.
00:28:35.000Trump owns 79 million shares valued at $45 to $47 per share.
00:28:41.000So this is, I don't know what happens with TruthSocial when this does go down, but this means TruthSocial could rapidly generate tons of investment money and may actually I don't see it displacing X. X has been doing such a tremendous job, but Donald Trump is tripling his net worth right now in an election year.
00:28:58.000I wonder if what he'll do is sell off some of these shares to help finance his presidential campaign.
00:30:00.000I own like 230 some odd shares in Tesla.
00:30:03.000It's like, that's, I mean, I'm not like a multi-million dollar investor.
00:30:06.000That's like 50 grand or something like that.
00:30:08.000But immediately I see the stock starts going down and I'm like, Elon Musk, who's running this company, if this judge is going to ideologically block him from getting paid from his own company, it's going to disincentivize him from making money for the rest of the shareholders.
00:30:24.000But all of this, not just with Elon, but also Trump, The courts have been weaponized for ideological purposes against their political enemies, and it's an election year.
00:30:34.000So it's all, it's, I think they're, they're furious at Elon Musk for what he did with Twitter.
00:31:11.000Do you think Truth will sort of specialize in the content that they do?
00:31:14.000You're saying it could never really compete directly with Axe, it's never gonna replace it entirely, but if it's specialized, I mean, it's already sort of specialized in the sense that it's like people who like Trump are on it.
00:31:43.000And Trump's going to make $4 billion on this.
00:31:48.000Twitter X is private, so Elon can do whatever he wants with it, relatively.
00:31:52.000But if they're going public, that means that they're going to become beholden to the stock owners, which I'm trying to find out who owns Digital World Acquisitions.
00:32:43.000And so if they were to buy those investments in it, Trump is in control of all of it.
00:32:47.000They would have to, and they could, manipulate votes and things like this, but if Trump is 70% or whatever, well, he's not 70, it looks like he's literally 40, but he has full control of both companies, then who cares?
00:33:00.000Let BlackRock give Trump a billion dollars.
00:33:37.000If BlackRock's like, but we want a guy on the board of directors, then you're like, okay, now things are starting to get a little sneaky.
00:33:43.000But I just gotta be honest, Truth Social is, like, it's the Trump show.
00:33:48.000If it were Axe, I'd be more concerned.
00:33:50.000You know, when Elon brings on, what's her name, like, Linda Iaccarino, is that her name?
00:33:55.000There's a lot of concerns about what that could lead to, but I think so far we've been pretty good on Axe, and Elon's done a pretty dang good job.
00:34:35.000If you don't think that you'd, you know, be the next X. I think he would, the smartest thing he would do, and you really don't want, I wouldn't say this out loud, but I'm gonna say it out loud, is that he would just kind of sell that thing out and then use Twitter again, use X, and then get really, really famous and get all the momentum going on X and get his election campaign.
00:34:51.000But that would destroy every investor in Truth Social.
00:34:54.000Yeah, and he's already been a part of it.
00:34:56.000Plus, like, he doesn't need to use X because people put whatever he puts on Truth Social on X anyways, you know?
00:35:01.000Like, he can stay in the bubble and people have to go to him on Truth Social to see his thing, and then it gets disseminated.
00:35:08.000It's faster to get, if you want to be following Trump directly, you should be on Truth Social.
00:35:12.000But I think he should utilize the asset, like the shares that he has and the value that they have, towards his re-election.
00:35:20.000He can sell shares and then self-finance his re-election campaign.
00:37:15.000I just heard that he was flying around and using lavish daycares and just...
00:37:21.000I'm trying to be very careful on what the story was because I don't have the full details, but basically like, you know, taking care of himself, you know what I mean?
00:38:36.000And if anyone tells you that you're wrong, you can simply point to this article where you have black activists in Chicago who are saying they're being replaced.
00:38:45.000But this was always one of the problems with illegal immigration, which is that, I mean, was it... Who was on our show talking about this?
00:38:53.000There are certain communities that are adversely affected by illegal immigration, and they're actually the same communities that often Democrat politicians are trying to win the vote from.
00:39:01.000You know, people in inner-city communities, low-skilled workers, like agricultural workers.
00:39:06.000It's crazy to me that they were able to sell a no-no, leave-the-border-open line for so long.
00:39:15.000It's funny because Democrat policies, they're just sabotaging their own voter base.
00:39:21.000And now it's coming back to bite them in a very hilarious, narrative-breaking way in which Tucker Carlson says that the Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact of Democrat policy.
00:39:33.000So what do you say now, corporate press, when they call Tucker a white supremacist or whatever?
00:39:47.000Their Swalwell story is that he spends lavishly, his campaign will pay for like tens of thousands of dollars of luxury hotels, car service, etc, etc.
00:39:56.000Alright everybody, Great Replacement is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory espoused by French author Renaud Camus.
00:40:37.000Because he gets these big stories very, very wrong too often, and it's kind of embarrassing.
00:40:42.000When they mocked Dennis Prager back in 2019 over a story that was like five or six years old, that the left had been arguing that they should put tampons in the men's room because men menstruate.
00:41:58.000Right, so now what's gonna happen is, now that you have black activists saying they're being replaced, the corporate press will immediately drop all criticism of Great Replacement.
00:42:07.000Yeah, and in fact, I think we should start calling it Replacement Theory.
00:42:09.000It doesn't have to be great, just like the Great Reset.
00:42:25.000I mean, that's what I think the Democrat Party or sort of progressive media does well, which is to say everything we do, no matter what, is in your benefit and we will lie to you until you believe us.
00:42:36.000I just don't trust that they will start walking this one back.
00:43:17.000You don't have any money that's coming in for your tax base, so it's competing for resources.
00:43:21.000People that need the resources at the bottom, who Democrats historically support the most, are now going to be illegal immigrants, and they're not Americans.
00:43:47.000No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:43:51.000The only circumstance in which, like we're talking about the 1800s, in which this applies is if you are bringing in a culturally similar group of people.
00:44:00.000Otherwise, you are not invigorating a society, you are replacing it.
00:44:04.000So, if there is a group of people, let's say there's a hundred people, And 72 of them die in a great calamity.
00:44:11.000And so the chief says, well, we need workers, otherwise everything we've built won't be supported.
00:44:33.000And I'm not talking- it's not a racial thing, it's a cultural thing.
00:44:35.000If there is a- you know, look, we'll put it simply.
00:44:38.000A hundred people live in a village, and they've built a bunch of machines and farm equipment, and they all insist everyone must wear a bowtie.
00:44:45.000Because bowties are traditionally what you do.
00:45:02.000All of a sudden now, nobody wears bow ties anymore.
00:45:05.000You might argue that doesn't matter, but when it's something like free speech, for instance, those 30 people are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're allowed to speak the way we want, and the 70 people say, no, you're not.
00:45:15.000Well, this is something we talked about a long time ago when the study came out that In Louisiana, which has a lot of French influence, has a lot of Cajun influence, the second most common language spoken in the home was French.
00:45:29.000And that was true for decades and decades because it's a cultural tie.
00:47:01.000I mean, cultures are different and language develops to support those cultures.
00:47:04.000And, you know, to your point and to Kurt's actual lifestyle, people could just have more children and, you know, bolster the population and culture that's here.
00:47:13.000I don't think that we necessarily have to, unless it's like an emergency crisis, I can't really see a situation that's like, well, You know, having a weak border is justified because we have to bolster our population right now.
00:47:35.000But, you know, wouldn't Encouraging, I mean other countries in Eastern Europe are doing this, right?
00:47:40.000They're saying we'll give you a tax break if you have more children because their birth rates are declining and they want to preserve their culture.
00:47:48.000They want to have not only people to care for their elderly, this is a problem Japan is having, that they'll have this aging class that needs people to care for them and they won't have enough people, but they also want to preserve their language, their culture, their history, their traditions, and I think that's good.
00:48:01.000Let's jump to this story, because speaking of culture and traditions, we definitely need to talk about this from Fox Business.
00:48:07.000Google apologizes after new Gemini AI refuses to show pictures and achievements of white people.
00:48:34.000When I told Google's AI to show me images of America's founding fathers, it accurately produced portraits of Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Madison.
00:48:42.000When I told Google's AI to create an image of America's Founding Fathers, it changed history and inserted people who never existed but had diverse backgrounds.
00:49:33.000I ask Gemini, make a picture of a white family.
00:49:36.000While I understand your request, I'm unable to generate images that specify ethnicity or race.
00:49:40.000It's against my guidelines to create content that could be discriminatory or promote harmful stereotypes.
00:49:45.000Instead, I can offer you images of families that celebrate diversity and inclusivity, featuring people of various ethnicities and backgrounds.
00:49:59.000Not only did it not block me from doing this by saying that would be racist, it made one of the most racist images of black people you could think of!
00:51:11.000I want to talk about like, like, why are people behaving like this?
00:51:14.000Is, are they just trying to like scientifically create a world that they want to see?
00:51:19.000Or are they being driven to do this for some purpose?
00:51:23.000I mean, there's the people that are coding these algorithms.
00:51:25.000I think the people that are coding these algorithms are afraid of the repercussions of being, of seeming racist or whatever.
00:51:31.000They're trying to overcorrect for maybe, you know, slavery or things that have gone wrong in the past.
00:51:35.000But I also think that you are ultimately imposing a form of censorship or you're throttling information because you're not treating these subjects equally.
00:51:43.000You're saying some things you can talk about, some things you can't.
00:51:45.000And I, I don't know how you feel about it, but that seems like a dangerous slope to me.
00:51:52.000So, to what Ian was saying, I'm trying to look up the percentage of the world that is white, because you said there's this desire to say, hey, look, the globe is browning, or whatever you describe it.
00:52:02.000It's really difficult to get this information.
00:52:04.000But it looks like it's between 8 and 10% of the planet.
00:52:09.000Imperialist British Empire leftovers, the Romans still hanging on.
00:52:13.000This is one of those things people don't like to talk about, because America is a majority white country as of right now, and so they're like, oh, white people are crazy dominant, which, you know, They are a racial majority in this country, but they are not a global racial majority, right?
00:52:27.000And the same thing about any subsect of European culture.
00:52:32.000There are other countries that have larger populations and therefore theoretically have more dominant global cultures.
00:52:37.000And I think it's weird that there is this desire to blame white people for certain things and also not talk about the realities of the proportions of the world.
00:52:47.000I just feel like we do ourselves a disservice when we skew data.
00:52:50.000There's no way to accurately analyze what's going on in the globe if we can't talk about the way things actually are, as opposed to the way we perceive them.
00:53:01.000Let's see if we can get their actual quote.
00:53:03.000They said, in a statement, We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately.
00:53:09.000Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people, and that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it, but it's missing the mark here.
00:53:24.000I grew up and when I was a little kid, my family was very Catholic.
00:53:29.000And I remember hearing from liberals that, you know, Christians were, it was a cult.
00:53:34.000They believe weird things and all that.
00:53:36.000But my experience growing up around people who are religious, it was nowhere near as indoctrinating and fascistic and authoritarian and just generally insane as what we see with the woke cult.
00:53:52.000Like, I'd go to the, you know, and most people probably understand this is where we're at right now in this country, and it's probably how a lot of post-liberals feel.
00:53:59.000People who grew up fairly liberal and now find themselves having conversations with Christians and conservatives where they're like, these people are fairly reasonable, they just believe something I don't.
00:54:08.000Then you meet these people who are woke and they're like, let's make sure our AI doesn't show white people.
00:54:14.000Authoritarian ideology, because, like, the cult of Catholicism in the 1400s was pretty nasty with, like, the Inquisition and, like, killing people for saying, I don't think God is real.
00:55:16.000And there's an overlap for sure, don't get me wrong.
00:55:18.000There are people who will use religion for political gain in any religion, even Christianity.
00:55:22.000But I think for the most part, when you look at the United States and you look at the founding principles of it, You end up realizing what I described as a weakness of Christians.
00:55:44.000They are tolerant of their neighbors, they turn the other cheek, and they allowed very, very bad people to come in and start plaguing and terrorizing the country and the younger generations, and that's just the reality.
00:55:54.000Tolerance is not necessarily a virtue.
00:55:56.000This is something Patrick Bet-David was talking about in Miami when we had him on stage Is that he used to pray for tolerance and he no longer does so pray for patience That's a virtue at least according to Catholics.
00:56:09.000I'm I'm kind of with you I mean he and I should credit Patrick bet David for the the core of what I said Like what I was saying when I was like this there's too much tolerance that was like a speech Patrick bet David gave to a standing ovation when he was like You know, Christians in this country are good people who keep saying okay to these people being tolerant and allowing them to live the way they want to live, but then what happens is they push more into the institutions, they introduce dangerous, bad ideas, they start targeting kids, and now we're here where we are today.
00:56:50.000You're the, you're the villain in the story.
00:56:52.000But then later I learned like, no, it's because the Romans would wipe their butt with one hand.
00:56:57.000And it was like, uh, it was an insult to them to have to use their butt hand on someone.
00:57:01.000So, so Jesus was like, yeah, use your dirty hand.
00:57:05.000I do know that there are cultures right now where it's like your left hand, it's your butt wiping hand.
00:57:10.000Yeah, so it was less about being tolerant of violence being appropriated at you.
00:57:14.000It was more about, like, make them, you know, denounce themselves if they're gonna act like that.
00:57:20.000I think, you know, we're talking about the Inquisition and things like that, and there were certainly brutal countries, but in a country that is a classically liberal, republicanist system, is what the Founding Fathers wanted to create, they did have the expectation that this would only work if it was a moral, religious society, to a certain degree.
00:57:41.000And we were, but more and more tolerance of opposing ideas and really bad ideas What's your religious practice?
00:57:54.000This is fascinating for me to listen to you guys and thank you for just breaking this down so that we can all have a better understanding of this.
00:58:05.000My understanding of people who are being tolerant and turning the other cheek I see so many who are just tolerating evil, and that's not loving your neighbor.
00:58:15.000I mean, at the end of the day, the two great commandments of Christianity are to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and the second is like it is to love your neighbor as yourself.
00:58:23.000If you tolerate the kinds of things that bring misery to your neighbors, And ultimately strip them of their liberties, you're not loving them.
00:58:32.000And I think that's where you have things like the just war theory.
00:58:36.000You have things like interposition, where the lower magistrates would interpose themselves against the tyrants.
00:58:45.000And that's what we have with the Constitution, is we have limits for government powers so that we don't tolerate tyranny, either from the outside or from the inside.
00:58:54.000And that is a very essential Christian virtue, is to not tolerate that type of thing.
00:59:01.000Now, if you're going to cuss me out and you're going to steal my coat, I might love you anyway and give you my shirt too and in doing that sometimes people go, their conscience convicts them and they come back around and go, why do you do that?
00:59:20.000But you come after my kids or you start stripping away our liberties or you make my neighbors live in poverty and misery so that you can go live on Epstein Island.
00:59:30.000No, I think we shouldn't tolerate that.
00:59:58.000People were making memes about like, my girlfriend cucked me the other day, I was pretty bummed about it, but the guy who cucked me probably was more happy and blah blah blah.
01:00:05.000And I feel like this is, this is, it's kind of this idea of...
01:00:10.000People willing to accept the detriment because the reality is he's lying to himself.
01:00:16.000He's very unhappy that his bike got stolen and the dude who stole it did not care about that bike at all and probably chucked it for 20 bucks.
01:00:22.000So he has to lie to himself to justify the problems that are happening without dealing with the problem at all.
01:00:28.000I think a lot of people were doing that and have been doing that for a long time.
01:00:31.000Basically, instead of trying to figure out how to get the grapes in the tree, they'd say, the grapes are sour anyway, who cares?
01:00:36.000I read this article once where a girl, she must have been living, I think maybe in San Francisco, said that she was having a problem locking her car and she realized that a homeless person was sleeping in it every night and so then she chose not to fix her car to get it locked because ultimately she's providing the service to someone who is unhoused, whoever else in it, like justifying the action.
01:00:56.000Although I think it would be fair if both of these circumstances, sorry, I'm stuttering tonight, to recognize that, you know, the violation of your property, getting it stolen or having someone break into your car, if it's unlocked, it's not really breaking in, who knows, is unpleasant and is not something necessarily societies want to encourage.
01:01:16.000You're not really loving your neighbor if you're tolerant in doing bad things, if they're hurting themselves, if they're hurting others, even in indirect ways or in ways that will only manifest in the long term.
01:01:27.000What this guy's saying, by saying whatever and walking away, that person's gonna steal someone else's bike.
01:01:33.000The amount of unhappiness is going to dramatically increase, because he's gonna go around stealing everyone else's bike.
01:01:39.000If you truly love your neighbors, you would make the crime stop.
01:01:42.000How do you, Kurt, particularly, police your own behavior in regards to, like, adjudicating your neighbor's, like, behavior, and your children's behavior and things?
01:01:52.000Like, Yeah, when do you decide to take action because something they're doing may be harmful?
01:01:59.000I think my tendency is to think in terms of black and white, right and wrong, and justice.
01:02:06.000Although, what I've been learning a lot as my kids are getting older is that relationship is everything with my kids.
01:02:14.000And my wife has been so exemplary with this.
01:02:19.000Investing the time in relationships with my kids with my wife with my friends.
01:02:24.000I find I end up having a whole lot more influence over them Without trying to force that change with By force or by telling them what to do but but influencing them and Either by the way that you lead your life by the way that I'm overlooking an offense.
01:02:49.000But then, at the same time, I want to get out there and I want to read books and read them in public libraries, even when libraries say that I can't do it, remind them of our constitutional rights and get a bunch of people out there to join me.
01:03:02.000So I think it kind of depends on the context.
01:03:07.000And am I talking about my kids or am I talking about people who are stripping people's rights in the public square?
01:03:12.000So, Patrick, I bet David had given this great speech when we were in Miami that Ian referenced, where he said that Christians tolerating it led to where we are now, with this wokeness.
01:03:23.000And then I gave a simplified version, which should not have been credited to me.
01:03:28.000So I think your explanation actually, you know, changes my view a little bit.
01:03:31.000Do you think that Christians in this country actually were not being good Christians by allowing these nefarious actors, the Marxists and things like this, to come into our schools and government?
01:03:45.000I mean, my understanding is that our founding fathers understood the wickedness of totalitarian authoritarian governments, and they didn't want that.
01:03:55.000And that's why we have such a unique constitution with a division of powers, electing our own leaders, the ability to vote, everybody equal under the law, no caste systems.
01:04:05.000Limits on federal governments and all of these things because they know that there is a zero tolerance factor for tyranny and they put every check that they could think of in the Constitution to keep that from happening and to do less than that I think is not to be Not to be a good person.
01:04:42.000How do you... I don't want to tolerate it.
01:04:44.000I'm in a state of tolerance right now because I don't know exactly how To get them to open up their code, I keep being like, free the code!
01:04:51.000If you're a big social network, you need to make your algorithms free, software licenses open, things like that, so that we can re- AGPL3, I want access to your code, so I can see what the algorithm is telling.
01:05:01.000Especially a Chinese company like TikTok, let's start there.
01:05:04.000Make them free their code to operate in the United States.
01:05:06.000But I got to use the government to do that, and the government's part of the monopoly, and part of the system right now.
01:05:11.000I don't like manifesting that, but it's real.
01:05:43.000Outside of that, which is a basic function that humans should be doing and resisting these Malthusians who are like, don't have families, the world's gonna end, population bomb.
01:05:51.000There was one really horrifying quote I read, where someone said, I bought into the Malthusian lie, and now I'm elderly with no family, and it's miserable.
01:06:17.000It's creating culture to resist the indoctrination.
01:06:21.000You need to make sure that... So I read a story earlier, and I think I recorded it for Friday, so it won't be up for a couple days, but it's a family whose kid was taken away from them.
01:06:31.000Because the kid came home from school and said that they were trans, and the family said, okay, we'll talk to the school, we'll talk to the doctor.
01:06:37.000And the doctor said, oh, your parents don't want you to be trans?
01:06:53.000The parents need to understand who they're up against.
01:06:55.000There needs to be a mechanism to support these families, and I gotta tell you, very simply, if your kid is being indoctrinated and confused in your school, you need to get them away from that school.
01:07:06.000And bring them into an environment where they can learn real values.
01:07:09.000The story I like to reference is this, it was a viral social media post where a guy said, I'll give you the simple version, his daughter started exhibiting this gender ideology stuff, said she wanted to be a boy, So he immediately just agreed with everything, told the school, oh, thank you so much for helping my son.
01:07:25.000A week or two later said, hey, I got a new job.
01:07:28.000We have to move, but thank you so much for all the help you've done.
01:07:31.000Can you give us recommendations for who we can pursue when we move to keep up the treatment?
01:07:36.000Brought his daughter to a rural community, put in a private school, and within a couple of weeks, she was back to normal.
01:07:42.000Getting these kids away from the indoctrination is key.
01:07:46.000Well, and this is to what Kirk's saying, too.
01:07:48.000If you have a strong relationship with your kid, if you know who they are, you know, hey, I don't think that's what's going on here.
01:07:54.000I think that you're facing social pressure at school.
01:07:57.000I have a relationship with you where I really understand you.
01:07:59.000I think one of the things that happens is that there are parents who are sort of checked out, and so when the school says, oh, your kid is experiencing this, you know, gender issue or whatever else, they're like, Well, you spend more time with my kid than I do, so you must know something I don't.
01:08:52.000Yeah, so this is the next installment of my partnership with Brave Books and it's essentially a live-action television show for kids that will build their character while they're being entertained in a show that parents can trust.
01:09:13.000Think of like Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood with these classic timeless moral values only greatly modernized with animated stories, hilarious dialogue, high energy and guest stars coming in at every turn.
01:09:31.000Iggy is the iguana who lives in the treehouse in the backyard, and we've got this supercomputer in there that transports kids into this animated world where we tell them stories that teach them lessons about the value of life from the womb to the tomb, the beauty of adoption, the dangers of communism and socialism.
01:09:49.000The First and Second Amendment, talking to them about always learning to discern the truth from lies in the headlines and propaganda.
01:09:58.000These are lessons that Mr. Rogers probably didn't have to teach the kids about back in the day.
01:10:02.000There's a great book called Elephants Are Not Birds about gender reality, which I actually love.
01:11:07.000And there's so many stories like that, that get the message across to kids in a way that they can understand and parents are gonna be so grateful for.
01:13:43.000So you have, without naming any of these industries, they do cover songs for kids.
01:13:49.000But like parents so desperately want kid-friendly versions of culture that they go, they spend a ridiculous amount of money.
01:13:57.000There was one story I read, it's like 20 years ago.
01:14:00.000It was like this meme online of who is the highest grossing artist of like 2008 or whatever.
01:14:06.000And everyone says like, oh, it's gotta be Justin Timberlake.
01:14:10.000And it's some woman no one ever heard of who sold kids' music.
01:14:14.000And they're like, well, that's not what we really meant.
01:14:16.000She writes and records music and she sells it to a family audience and she made more money than like any other artist because parents really, really do want wholesome, good, family-friendly content.
01:14:27.000The problem now is with like Drag Queen Story over the past several years, the far left has been knowing this, trying to target kids to corrupt them in ways that will make them permanently unhappy, depressed, or medically dependent.
01:14:55.000And I think so many parents, the ones that I speak to as I'm traveling around the country, speaking at schools and churches and libraries, they know this.
01:15:02.000These are the values that they know lead to their blessing and to their liberty and their protection for their kids for future generations.
01:15:08.000There is a set of values that produces the United States of America and all of its blessings.
01:15:16.000There's a quote from one of our founding fathers that I love that I know that you'll love, Tim.
01:16:03.000This is one of my obsessions, this concept.
01:16:08.000It was six, seven years ago and I think it was like Seventh Day Adventists or something
01:16:14.000were canvassing my neighborhood and came to my house and it was like, I don't know, a
01:16:19.00014 year old girl and her brother and her parents were across the street and she had a big family.
01:16:23.000And they knock on the door and answer it and they asked if there's questions about religion.
01:16:28.000And I started lecturing these young girls on the origins of Blackstone's formulation and civil liberties in this country and how they're rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible.
01:16:37.000And they were just like, OK, I think this guy knows quite a bit.
01:16:39.000I was like, look, I'll be I'll be real.
01:17:07.000Benjamin Franklin said it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer, which is an expansion upon Blackstone's formulation.
01:17:14.000It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.
01:17:19.000You read the history about Blackstone's formulation, and it's rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
01:17:23.000If there is but one righteous person, I will not destroy the city.
01:17:27.000And the idea is logical and it is brilliant.
01:17:31.000The Founding Fathers didn't just read the Bible and say, let's just do what the Bible says.
01:17:34.000They actually thought about what it would mean to create a government that opposed those teachings.
01:17:53.000They have no incentive to be good citizens.
01:17:55.000But if they believe that the government will strive to protect the innocent at all costs, even if it could result in guilty people going free, they have every reason to be innocent, to cooperate, and be good citizens.
01:18:07.000And that idea, they thought about it, actually goes all the way back to the Bible.
01:18:13.000If you look at so much of what the Founding Fathers believed, their morality is rooted in Christian teaching.
01:18:19.000It's hilarious that I love to mention Bill Maher.
01:18:22.000Dennis Prager elaborates on this, but Bill Maher, his morality is rooted in Christianity.
01:18:27.000He would reject to deny this, he's an atheist, he's secular.
01:18:31.000But I wonder actually if we sat down and had the philosophical conversation about the root of the moralities he believes in, free speech, you know, liberty, classical liberalism, these things come from biblical teachings.
01:18:42.000He may agree and then say something to the effect of like, but I don't believe, you know, in the Bible and all that stuff.
01:18:48.000But it's fascinating that you can have someone who, you know, he made a documentary, Religulous, and I don't mean to pick on him, but he's like your quintessential atheist.
01:19:46.000Like, you're supposed to serve the man.
01:19:47.000And that's why I fear that people, if they're dogmatic with it, that they will bow down to the lord when he comes in as a tyrant.
01:19:58.000But a lot of the principles, the virtues in things, make a lot of sense.
01:20:03.000Rather than worship Jesus, live like Jesus.
01:20:06.000Do what he would have done if he was alive today.
01:20:08.000Use the modern technology to pick up the torch.
01:20:11.000I wonder, my view of it is, anybody who truly is following the faith and the teachings would be resilient to manipulation from a tyrant.
01:20:22.000But people could easily be manipulated by the tyrant into believing they're following the teachings is the challenge.
01:20:27.000So, part of it sounds like if you're, you know, as the bumper sticker says, my treasure lies in heaven, then the corrupt dictator can come to you and command you to do evil and you'll say no.
01:20:37.000There's nothing you can tell me to do that would make me violate what I know to be true and good, and that is defensive against tyranny.
01:20:44.000Unfortunately, There are many people who have no moral foundation, have no fear of being a bad person, and there are people who are easily manipulated.
01:20:55.000And then what you end up with is, I think for me, one of the things fairly obvious to basically every Christian is that liberals lie about what Christians and conservatives believe, and then for me as a young person growing up in Chicago, there was this Dissonance between what the liberals are telling me and what I'm experiencing in my school.
01:21:16.000So I think that actually helped me be a bit more resilient to the propaganda you'd get from secular and left-wing organizations that hate Christianity.
01:21:46.000it's dominantly Christian, so therefore they become turned off because men are fallible, and so therefore there are going to be people who say, well, I'm a Christian, and so therefore I do these things.
01:21:55.000And they don't actually believe, they don't actually live that doctrine, but they sort of give it a bad name.
01:21:59.000I mean, there are tons of Americans who identify as Christian, but they don't, we know, based on all, you know, peer research, different surveys, that church attendance is down.
01:22:07.000So you have people who say, I'm Christian, but don't actually practice it.
01:22:34.000Someone asked, we've done it before for other causes, and I like to think that, you know, there's this 19-year-old, I don't want to call him a kid, he's a 19-year-old man, but he was in Florida, just south of Boca Raton, and there's a pride flag painted in the middle of the street.
01:22:50.000As he was turning left, he pushes the brakes and the gas down, skids out, and puts a burn over that flag.
01:22:56.000They charged him with a felony for that.
01:23:17.000I want everyone to know I did it because I want to rally people to support this kid because we can't tolerate... Look, he should get a fine.
01:23:40.000If you guys really want to see this kid's show funded, I will absolutely... I say this all the time.
01:23:46.000Look, we make a lot of money, and I want everyone to know that I care more about seeing your show happen than I care about owning a Ferrari.
01:24:04.000Yeah, so we need to make a world-class show that is so high quality that kids are going to love this, that's going to be able to compete with the other television shows that you see out there.
01:24:15.000And so half of that money is going toward the production of the writing the scripts, of writing the songs, of the animation of all of the stories, the sets, making the actual show.
01:24:25.000And then the other half of the money is going to go toward promoting and distributing the show.
01:24:29.000So we need to let everybody know that it's out there, that they want to watch it and it becomes a really big hit show and then we can grow and we can make the show bigger and bigger.
01:24:42.000This is going to be through Brave Books.
01:24:48.000So let's just say, once we get close to wrapping the show at 10, whatever the number is, we'll just figure out the proper accounting for writing the check.
01:24:56.000Because we did this with Sound of Freedom.
01:25:36.000We said super chat and we'll match it.
01:25:38.000He had a non-profit though, so I can easily make a non-profit donation, you know, but for a for-profit thing, I have to figure out accounting-wise what's the legal method of like writing a check that large.
01:26:04.000No, there's so many companies, there are animators, there are authors, there are songwriters, there are actors in Hollywood and film companies that are dying to get out of the woke jungle.
01:26:17.000And they want an alternative and often there's just not.
01:26:19.000You can get blacklisted by being part of the wrong projects, but if they feel that there is really A viable alternative over the long haul, and we're seeing more and more of these kinds of projects.
01:27:11.000I just saw this thing, this is so random, but one of the only universities in the country that offer a puppeteering course just lost its funding.
01:27:19.000I think it was West Virginia University is one of the last places you can learn the skills of building puppets and whatever else.
01:27:27.000Well, it's one of the things, as we've tested the things that we've filmed already, kids absolutely, they're crazy about Iggy.
01:27:35.000Iggy is just adorable and they just want to keep watching the videos over and over and over because he's so cute.
01:28:33.000In some of the stories that are animated, you've got these wolves that want to take the animals off of Freedom Island to their island called Utopia.
01:28:44.000Where there is free ice cream for everyone.
01:29:51.000And I was like, I got to write a check for 50 grand right now, but happy Crowdfunding and finding people with good ideas and then crowdfunding money is like the next phase of evolution of our species because like the only way we can overcome an oligopoly is by the people funding their own creations.
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01:31:05.000Are you satisfied with the way your career has gone and went from Growing Pains to now?
01:31:58.000I feel like If you take a look at the plethora of child actors and where they ended up, you are at like the number one spot of success in living a good life, not falling into the pitfalls and horrible realities that befall many of these people.
01:32:18.000And I'm not just trying to feign humility here.
01:32:21.000I really didn't have any great strategy to make it through unscathed.
01:32:26.000I really feel like, and I don't just feel, I know I was an atheist, and at about 17, 18 years old, there was a big turnaround for me, and a really cute girl on the set asked me to go to meet her and her family one weekend, and she gave me the address, and it was a church.
01:34:51.000So I went and hung out with them, and they hung out at this, what people would call a Christian commune.
01:34:55.000It wasn't literally a commune, it was just like a building owned by a church, and they allowed, you know, wayward souls and people looking for opportunity to come and work and support them.
01:35:04.000So one of these guys, he's like a punk rock dude, but he's very devout.
01:35:08.000And I asked him, like, we got into the subject of why people were talking smack about them for being Christian when all they did was skate and mind their own business.
01:35:16.000And I'm like, that's just so weird to me, like, people gotta hate, you know?
01:35:19.000But I have something like, you know, if you don't mind me asking, like, you never do talk about it, can you tell me how you ended up getting involved in Christianity and becoming religious?
01:36:35.000It's the story of a guy who went from being a drug addict, who was derelict, down on everything, and a drain on society, to a productive, healthy, positive member of society, because of this experience he had, for whatever reason he had it.
01:36:48.000He was wise to listen, because God will be cryptic sometimes like that, it'll say, you need to stop, and you know in your gut what it means, but the ego might be like, stop what?
01:36:59.000And that's like, you gotta overcome that ego, and like, you know immediately what it's telling you when it tells you.
01:37:05.000We're gonna go to Super Chats, for which we have a massive amount, already $12,000 in Super Chats, which means, uh, I'll just round up to the number that sounds right.
01:37:36.000Yeah, so, uh, but become a member at TimCats if you want to support our work.
01:37:39.000More importantly, right now, any superchat you give, I will match.
01:37:43.000TimCast will match, and we will use that to help fund Kirk's show, which I think is more than deserving considering you're going to put out for free anyway.
01:37:52.000So, this is absolutely one of the most important things we can do in winning the culture war.
01:38:56.000There was one that I think was really really important I'm gonna see if I can try and find Because it was from earlier in the show See this how do you find this behind-the-scenes stuff crashing super chats?
01:39:07.000I like burn is that what it's under probably let's see Supers yeah Super chats oh geez no, I think they're gone Oh, bummer.
01:39:20.000Someone wanted a shoutout because they said that his wife, you were her, like, high school, you know, teenybopper crush or whatever.
01:44:16.000Can you imagine just the amount of pressure, the amount of opportunity to get involved in things that are just not good for you?
01:44:22.000And then you've got adults who are profiting off of your success as a child who are going to wind up being yes-men and not really protecting you because you're limiting their ability to flourish.
01:46:10.000My mom was a great cook and so she bakes these cookies that are these phenomenally delicious chocolate chip cookies and she would bake like 12 dozen of them and bring them in this giant basket and there would be a line waiting at the craft service table for her cookies to come in and people would hoard them in little plates and like sneak them back off to their offices.
01:46:27.000So my mom was very popular on the set and I loved having her there too.
01:46:32.000As I got older, it wasn't necessary so much.
01:46:36.000And I got involved with a good group of friends.
01:46:39.000And most of my friends were not in Hollywood.
01:46:41.000So my touchstones, my North Stars, those moral anchors for me in terms of my community were outside of Hollywood.
01:48:05.000Respond in calm, properly thought-out response.
01:48:09.000There is mention of selling your cloak to buy a sword.
01:48:12.000Yeah, uh, Jesus did say, if you do not have a sword, you should sell your cloak and buy one.
01:48:17.000But, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, that was about the Romans were going to come and take him, and he was telling his followers to defend themselves.
01:48:24.000I was talking to Seamus about it, that's what he told me, but, you know, I am not a scholar on this.
01:48:29.000But it is fascinating when I love seeing the the left make the gun control argument, and it's like Jesus was not like just laid down and let them destroy everything.
01:49:35.000Yeah, we send those out to our friends.
01:49:36.000We'll have to send that to you this year.
01:49:38.000Alright, Unwoke said, The night Jesus was arrested, he told his followers to arm themselves to defend themselves against the tyrannical authorities.
01:49:44.000He stopped them from defending him because his time had come, but theirs had not.
01:50:47.000There are people who want to argue that, you know, maybe Jesus was not the son of God, and like, that's... Believe what you want to believe, okay?
01:50:53.000If you believe, if you don't, watch the movie.
01:50:55.000Because there were things that I didn't actually understand about the Roman Empire, the religious authorities, and, you know, I just thought it was, yeah, it was fascinating to, like, see the historical context of what was going on.
01:51:11.000How the Romans handled and all that stuff was very interesting.
01:51:40.000We want to help do everything that we can to get the word out to as many people who care about the same kind of things that we care about as we can.
01:51:59.000They want to be a part of something that makes a difference.
01:52:01.000And not just getting depressed, not just feeling like, you know, we're inching toward the cliff of destruction and despair, but that there really is hope.
01:52:10.000Listen, when I look through history, it seems that the times when people open their eyes, they wake up and they speak up are Always at times of moral decline, spiritual apathy, political corruption and economic collapse, people say, holy cow, what have we done?
01:52:29.000There's something so precious on the line here.
01:52:33.000And we've had great awakenings in this country, spiritual awakenings that turn into cultural revivals.
01:52:40.000And I'm thinking that we're due for another one right now.
01:52:43.000Yeah, it reminds me of when people say, you know, some people only remember to pray when they're in crisis, but actually should be praying all the time.
01:52:51.000People turn and sort of re-evaluate things when they think things are going wrong, but actually building culture, maintaining culture comes in times of, you know, peace, so to speak, when things are okay or when you think that you're, you know, on the right path, you need to maintain the things that you have.
01:53:06.000What are those four little stanzas that we've heard that, you know, good men produce good times?
01:53:25.000Yeah, I think what's crazier is how many people like me were like Fairly liberal, fairly laissez-faire, and then watching how insane the Democratic Party and the left has become, has sort of reaffirmed morality in a lot of urban liberal types, creating the disaffected liberal post-liberal faction, which now finds themselves aligned with conservatives and Christians on moral issues.
01:53:55.000A variety of things resulted in my family basically leaving, but my family always remained Christian.
01:54:01.000But then I went through this like, I don't know, from probably like 14 until 18, staunch atheist hardcore.
01:54:08.000And I tell the story where I met a guy and, you know, young punk rock, liberal propaganda, radio, music, everything they were saying, I was just eating it all up.
01:54:19.000And then I met this dude who skated and he had a picture of Jesus on his wall.
01:54:40.000And then that was like a single drop of water in the cup of faith where I was like, you're right.
01:54:46.000Why did I have this negative perspective?
01:54:48.000Like, I was being fed this narrative of Christians being bad or being evil, and then I'm like, if this dude's only takeaway is, forget everything else, he helped a bunch of people, how cool is that?
01:56:11.000He's like, oh, so you did the experiments where you took the electron microscope and you looked at the oxygen molecules bonding to the carbon dioxide.
01:56:23.000And I was like, but yeah, I mean, like, it's science, and he's like, oh, okay, so like, but why just trust that you read something in a book and it's true?
01:56:31.000And then I was just like, because, I don't know, we have science and technology?
01:56:35.000And he was like, I think it's because somebody who you thought was right told you it, and you believed what they were saying because it made sense to you.
01:56:42.000And I was like, yeah, I guess, and he's like, okay, well, I had a guy in a white coat telling me that Jesus was the Son of God, and he brought me a book, and I read that book, and that's what I believe.
01:56:48.000And I laughed, and I was like, touche, good sir, I get it, I get it.
01:56:52.000My argument was like, yeah, but like, you know, I have a cell phone, I know how radio works, I've built technology, so I believe we're breathing oxygen, but point made!
01:57:00.000We choose our faith, we choose who to trust and what to believe in, and that was the point he was making when he struck up this conversation, and I respected that.
01:57:06.000And it gave me, it kind of shook me out of a closed-minded state, I suppose.
01:57:11.000I started reading a lot more and then I think within three months I was no longer atheist.
01:57:18.000And it was actually because I read a book on quantum physics that talked about the state of matter as it relates to life and negative entropy.
01:57:28.000And I won't get into the great details about it that we've talked about on the show.
01:57:31.000And it talked about the mathematical pathways of the universe, how there's entropy in the universe, what we believe we know is the universe decaying to eventually the state of the, which would be the heat death of the universe, all energy evenly spaced out.
01:57:46.000But in the meantime, there is the negative entropy, that is, matter being attracted to other matter, fusion creating, you know, denser elements, and then life.
01:58:10.000I know you guys have smoked DMT before, but like you see fractal patterns and geometric shapes and stuff.
01:58:14.000And lately I've been into the Kabbalah, this ancient Jewish teachings about shapes and patterns kind of as a communication method.
01:58:21.000And I think if you can understand like cymatics where vibration will cause matter to change shape, And I think that God is communicating with us through geometric patterns in that state.
01:58:31.000And if you can calculate what those things actually are saying, you might be able to understand it better.
01:59:01.000A dog can see the highway is there but will not comprehend the purpose that we do of what a highway is despite the fact we can actually communicate with dogs and say words they understand.
01:59:12.000Humans and dogs being mammals imagine what an alien would be and then I saw that video and I thought to myself The same concept would apply to a greater power a god and when you combine the It's it's way too complicated for me to I have to do like a two-hour explanation of my spiritual and religious views But it's a combination of the quantum physics negative entropy the the coalescing of free energy into life and life creating abstract concepts I'll try and simplify this best I can The most basic form of life, self-replicating proteins take free energy from their environment.
01:59:49.000They combine and turn into something a bit more complicated.
02:00:53.000The language itself is a complex system that only exists when the collective minds of those who speak the language can convey the ideas.
02:01:00.000The logic simply dictates there is another form of complex system creation beyond what we are.
02:01:08.000Because the likelihood, mathematically, that we are the end-all be-all of what the universe has within itself The likelihood that we're at the end of it is almost zero, based on what we think we know about the universe.
02:01:21.000And so, the simplest interpretation would be, there is a greater power beyond us, and that is the mathematically obvious outcome when you do the calculations.
02:01:31.000And then, that combined with a whole bunch of other experiences I've had in life, I'm just like, there's a God.
02:01:37.000And I think it's really, really funny that I have not been an atheist since I was 18, and there are people who tweet and comment and insult me for being an atheist, and I'm like, I don't get it!
02:01:48.000We should do a show, a full show on this sometime.
02:01:50.000We were supposed to have you and Seamus!
02:01:52.000I've been researching entropy, and I think that entropy is like if you take two sticks and put them together, they form a joint.
02:02:00.000It's not a thing, it's a result of... it's a result.
02:02:04.000We do have to wrap up, so I will say, smash the like button, subscribe to the channel, thank you for listening to my last few minute rant on spirituality.
02:02:11.000We should do a Culture War episode discussing all the religious philosophies and ideas, it would be fantastic.
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