Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - FBI Warns Iran Prepping DRONE STRIKE On California | Timcast IRL w- Arynne Wexler

00:02:03.000 The FBI has warned police stations across California that Iran is preparing, aspiring to, engage in drone strikes off of the coast of California to California.

00:02:15.000 And the immediate response from a lot of the anti-interventionist people is that, okay, this is propaganda.

00:02:19.000 They're trying to freak people out.

00:02:21.000 But I guess in essence, if you believe the FBI, then Iran is planning on bombing California. 0.76

00:02:28.000 So, okay, seems like a stretch, but I think we should still take it seriously and take a look at what they're talking about.

00:02:33.000 At the same time, it has been reported that Iran is mining the Strait of Hormuz and a U.S. tanker, a U.S.-owned tanker, has been bombed.

00:02:43.000 So, while Trump at the same time is saying we've won the war, a lot of stuff is still going on. 0.96

00:02:48.000 And then there's another really interesting story that apparently, like, the new Supreme Leader didn't show up for like a big ceremony, and everyone was like, ha, what a loser. 0.97

00:02:56.000 I can't believe he didn't show up. 0.52

00:02:58.000 Meanwhile, the rumors are that he's just dead.

00:03:00.000 Maybe that's why he didn't show up.

00:03:02.000 And then, of course, my friends, we have the Save Act.

00:03:05.000 Cornyn in Texas is apparently backing off the filibuster issue saying do whatever you got to do to get the SAVE Act passed.

00:03:12.000 And I think, if anything at all proves that Congress is fake, it's that everybody in this country, basically, wants the Save Act to pass.

00:03:20.000 It is wildly popular among Democrat voters, Independents, Republicans, basically everybody else.

00:03:27.000 But for some reason, Democrat politicians are saying, no, they're not going to pass it.

00:03:31.000 And John Thune is like, sorry, we just can't get it done.

00:03:35.000 Because it seems like, unfortunately, everything is just fake.

00:03:38.000 And you know what else?

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00:06:20.000 We have Aaron Wexler.

00:06:22.000 Hi, it's great to be here.

00:06:23.000 What do you do?

00:06:23.000 Who are you?

00:06:24.000 I'm, I think now I could say I'm just a full-time comedian, formerly political commentator, formerly tech bro, formerly finance.

00:06:32.000 BR.

00:06:34.000 So, yeah, it's great to be here.

00:06:35.000 Right up here.

00:06:36.000 Well, good to have you back.

00:06:37.000 And then Luke's here.

00:06:39.000 Yes, I am in a weird fashion in the thumbnail that is a little strange and bewildering.

00:06:43.000 I don't know. 0.78

00:06:44.000 Well, the thing is, Aaron had this, there was like this joke that emerged when Erin was here last month because she was like, you're going to get my boobs, right? 0.58

00:06:54.000 And then we ended up just using her boobs for the thumbnail. 1.00

00:06:57.000 And then we A-B-tested.

00:06:59.000 We AB tested and it worked.

00:07:01.000 But here's the thing.

00:07:02.000 She has a laptop right now.

00:07:03.000 And she was like, should I close my laptop?

00:07:05.000 Because then, and then I was like, we can't do the same joke twice. 0.98

00:07:08.000 And then I was like, let's put the boobs on Lou. 1.00

00:07:10.000 Or someone recommended putting the boobs on Lou. 1.00

00:07:12.000 Guys up here, Chad. 0.94

00:07:13.000 All right.

00:07:13.000 We've got important things to talk about.

00:07:15.000 Specifically about maybe.

00:07:16.000 I'm so sorry you had to see that.

00:07:18.000 I'm sorry to cut you off too.

00:07:19.000 I apologize.

00:07:21.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:22.000 I don't know what the hell.

00:07:25.000 Let's jump into the news, though.

00:07:27.000 So it should be a fun show.

00:07:28.000 Luke, good to have you back.

00:07:29.000 You're going to be here for the week, I think, right?

00:07:31.000 Yeah, it's going to be fun.

00:07:32.000 And for everybody else, let's jump to the story.

00:07:34.000 We've got this from ABC10.

00:07:37.000 This is the breaking news report.

00:07:40.000 We'll play it for you right now.

00:07:41.000 FBI warned police departments across California over the past few days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast.

00:07:51.000 ABC reviewed an alert distributed at the end of February that reads, quote, we recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California in the event that the U.S. had conducted strikes against Iran.

00:08:19.000 We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.

00:08:25.000 End of quote.

00:08:26.000 Now, he says alleged attack, but of course it's alleged plan to aspire to, allegedly.

00:08:32.000 And, you know, when I see this, what is the point of a story like this?

00:08:38.000 Do we really expect Iran to launch drone strikes on California?

00:08:40.000 No.

00:08:41.000 Well, there could be blowbacks, specifically from radicalized Shias that are pissed off of the state. 1.00

00:08:45.000 And we should be scared, right?

00:08:47.000 Well, you know, tune into shows like this to make sure you're not in danger.

00:08:51.000 I think blowback Israel, and I think it's a significant issue that we're going to have to deal with for quite a long time now, sadly. 0.97

00:08:56.000 But when we look at the story, it originally was an FBI memo sent out in February.

00:09:00.000 That would have been nice to know for the citizens in California so they could have actually been on watch there.

00:09:05.000 I'm looking at a lot of the comments here and people are like, well, I don't really believe the FBI.

00:09:08.000 They covered up the Epstein stuff for over 30 years now.

00:09:11.000 They have no credibility, as a lot of people are saying this could just be a way to make people fear or to try to do some kind of false flag in order to allow boots on the ground here.

00:09:22.000 Lots of people are very skeptical of power right now, but I do believe the threat of blowback Israel. 0.99

00:09:27.000 We saw it in Austin.

00:09:28.000 Three American citizens have lost their lives here because of a Shi'i radical that was pissed off about the, but New York was ISIS. 0.84

00:09:35.000 ISIS has actually been fighting Iran and Iran has been fighting ISIS as well.

00:09:40.000 So ISIS and the radical Sunni Islamists are very happy about this war in Iran. 0.98

00:09:46.000 And there are other considerations about using them along with the Kurds in order to put boots on the ground inside of Iran, which I think is just an awful move because, you know, things always go good when we drop a whole bunch of weapons and bombs in the Middle East and give it to the random people there. 0.96

00:09:59.000 As of course, that usually led up to the creation of ISIS.

00:10:02.000 Global jihad is something that's a real legitimate threat that we should be taking seriously. 0.96

00:10:07.000 And it just sucks because no one trusts the authorities anymore.

00:10:11.000 I don't think that Trump would actually rely on a false flag to put boots on the ground.

00:10:17.000 If that was something that he was going to do, just like he didn't need a false flag to attack Israel, I think if he actually wanted to do it, he's the kind of guy that would be like, I'm just going to go do it. 0.75

00:10:24.000 I'm not saying he's going to do it.

00:10:26.000 I'm saying that's what the chatter is online, that people are saying that this is the step up to the next potential false flag.

00:10:31.000 That's what the chatter is online.

00:10:32.000 And of course, a lot of people are not really happy about this war.

00:10:36.000 They don't want us more involved.

00:10:37.000 And if you think about it, they see it as a way, if Trump does a false flag, then he could galvanize the American public to put boots on the ground to escalate and expand this country.

00:10:46.000 They wouldn't put a story like this out if it was going to be a false flag.

00:10:50.000 They would just do it.

00:10:51.000 And then after the fact, they would say, you know what they would do is the attack would happen.

00:10:56.000 Then there would be hearings on the memo and they would say, you knew this was possible and you didn't warn everybody.

00:11:00.000 And they'd say, well, we didn't find it to be credible.

00:11:02.000 And then everyone in the media would be like, the Trump administration knew of the threat of an attack on California and did nothing about it.

00:11:09.000 So when I see stuff like this, it's usually because it's not going to happen.

00:11:12.000 Yeah, it came from February.

00:11:14.000 So obviously, it's been a long time.

00:11:17.000 The Iranian could it have been that this memo was circulated for the purpose of a false flag operation that the U.S. would use to then go in to attack Iran.

00:11:31.000 You see my point?

00:11:32.000 Yes, because it originated before the war.

00:11:34.000 Right.

00:11:34.000 So before the war starts, memos went out saying you may get bombed.

00:11:38.000 And then if a bombing did happen, the U.S. would be like, oh, we were attacked by Iran. 0.78

00:11:41.000 We've got to go to war now.

00:11:42.000 Exactly.

00:11:43.000 Which is important to consider here.

00:11:43.000 Yeah.

00:11:45.000 All possibilities are kind of on the table here.

00:11:47.000 But when it comes to kind of selling this war, this administration really didn't do that.

00:11:51.000 Their kind of messaging on it is kind of weird and seems to be jumping all over the place.

00:11:56.000 It is.

00:11:57.000 Yeah.

00:11:57.000 All over the place.

00:11:58.000 I mean, there's been very little messaging besides, you know, Iran's a threat.

00:12:02.000 Donald Trump has been pretty hawkish on Iran for, I mean, a long time before he was president.

00:12:07.000 He was making remarks on Twitter back in like 2013 about how he couldn't, he wouldn't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon.

00:12:16.000 So I don't think that this is actually the Iran war is actually out of character for Trump.

00:12:21.000 He did say that he didn't want to see new wars, but I don't think that he looks at this as a new war.

00:12:25.000 I think he looks at this as an extension of the policy that Iran's not going to get a nuclear weapon.

00:12:29.000 And then as for the idea of a threat of a ship launching drones off the California coast, I think that that's just a second question with like the Coast Guard.

00:12:40.000 Well, I think that American citizens should be allowed to have weapons that could take out a ship.

00:12:45.000 And the Second Amendment allows it.

00:12:46.000 Just let the Californians handle it themselves. 1.00

00:12:49.000 There's already people who are posting saying that if anything happens in California, it was Israel.

00:12:55.000 Oh, I mean, if anything happens anywhere, it's Israel. 0.99

00:12:58.000 Yeah.

00:12:58.000 I stopped telling you.

00:12:58.000 Yeah.

00:12:59.000 If you're a loser and you don't have a girlfriend because of the Jews, that's why. 1.00

00:13:04.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:13:05.000 It's likely.

00:13:05.000 That's what we plot.

00:13:08.000 I was walking through my kitchen and I went to open my door and it was one of those, it's one of those handles, not like a doorknob.

00:13:14.000 And when I opened it, it got caught in my belt loop and yanked it.

00:13:17.000 And the Jews, 100%. 0.96

00:13:18.000 Yeah, I knew right away it was the Jews. 0.95

00:13:20.000 I knew about that in advance.

00:13:21.000 I know.

00:13:22.000 Actually, Aaron orchestrated the whole thing.

00:13:23.000 We all got PTSD from last night.

00:13:25.000 Usually sneaks in there and then we all have PTSD.

00:13:29.000 It's a PISD.

00:13:31.000 It's post-interventionalism stress disorder, pissed, pissed.

00:13:34.000 I like that.

00:13:35.000 It's post-intervention stress disorder, pissed to PISD.

00:13:39.000 I think on Trump, though, with all of this, I somewhat agree with his style right now of not saying that much and just getting it done.

00:13:46.000 He's just getting a lot of stuff done.

00:13:48.000 Yeah, what is he going to do?

00:13:49.000 I'll give you an example.

00:13:50.000 I was getting frustrated when he sent a truth out saying to the people of Iran, help is on the way.

00:13:55.000 And I thought Donald Trump doesn't, they're like, hey, truth out.

00:13:58.000 That's what he did.

00:13:59.000 He doesn't truth.

00:14:00.000 He truthed.

00:14:01.000 And I thought Donald Trump is not, he's not going to write something like that unless he means it.

00:14:05.000 And then we went week after week after week and we watched as tens of thousands of Iranians got slaughtered. 0.54

00:14:10.000 And it's because he was getting ready and the military was preparing and they were coordinating with Israel.

00:14:15.000 And then we had the attack that killed Ayatollah.

00:14:17.000 So I'm okay with trusting him and our Secretary of War and seeing what they do.

00:14:22.000 I do not think there's any interest for us to have a long extended war.

00:14:26.000 Donald Trump cares very much about his legacy.

00:14:29.000 And so he's not going to risk that legacy.

00:14:30.000 And also people in America love applying an American framework to everything and it is a big mistake.

00:14:35.000 And in Israel, Israelis are tired.

00:14:37.000 They've been fighting a lot.

00:14:38.000 They've been fighting for two years.

00:14:39.000 They're done.

00:14:40.000 It's worth noting that Donald Trump cares about his legacy.

00:14:42.000 He also has no problem with being like, all right, we're done and just leaving.

00:14:47.000 He'll BS people about what was accomplished, what wasn't accomplished.

00:14:50.000 He has no problem laying it on thick.

00:14:52.000 Yeah, we're done.

00:14:52.000 We did it.

00:14:53.000 Things are.

00:14:53.000 Do you guys remember in Trump's first term?

00:14:53.000 We're going.

00:14:56.000 He was very adamant about ending the Israel-Palestine crisis.

00:15:01.000 He wanted to be the guy to end that.

00:15:04.000 So one of the things I was thinking about today is that, you know, what are Trump's motivations if legacy is especially important to him?

00:15:10.000 Why start a war that people are going to get mad about? 0.99

00:15:13.000 And one theory, you know, it's funny because the anti-Israel people are just going to claim Tim Poole said something stupid, blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:15:19.000 I have a theory that may or may not be correct. 0.98

00:15:21.000 But I'm thinking about Donald Trump coming in his first term being like, these losers couldn't solve Israel-Palestine, but I can because I'm the art of the deal.

00:15:21.000 I don't know.

00:15:29.000 And I'm going to cut a deal so good that it's going to solve the Middle Eastern crisis once and for all. 0.97

00:15:34.000 And then he couldn't get it done.

00:15:35.000 And then he started wondering, why can't I get it done?

00:15:37.000 They had the Abraham Accords, which is awesome.

00:15:39.000 But he was like, the Israel-Palestine issue is just not getting solved.

00:15:44.000 And he wants to be the deal maker.

00:15:46.000 And then I think he ran into the issue of Iran funding Hamas groups, Akassan Brigade types, and other militia groups in the Middle East that are continuing to fight.

00:15:55.000 And they're refusing to say no.

00:15:58.000 There's no deal to be made with them.

00:16:00.000 I think for Trump, there's two things.

00:16:02.000 One, I believe what Marco Rubio said the first time.

00:16:05.000 Israel was going to take an action against Iran.

00:16:08.000 The U.S. was concerned this would result in a retaliation against the United States.

00:16:11.000 They decided to join the Israeli effort because they didn't want to take a defensive posture, which would they would then get criticized for.

00:16:16.000 So they decided, okay, fine.

00:16:17.000 If Israel's going to do that, we're going to have to attack as well. 0.95

00:16:19.000 I think you're leaving out part of what he said.

00:16:22.000 Part of what he said is we were always going to attack Iran, but then because of Israel's timeline, we decided we want to stay on the offense. 0.78

00:16:22.000 What did he say? 0.78

00:16:28.000 And then he said we are always going to attack Iran.

00:16:31.000 He said they were in the middle of negotiations.

00:16:34.000 Negotiations were not going well.

00:16:35.000 He said, he said, we were always, an attack was always going to be necessary against Iran. 0.99

00:16:40.000 That is what he said.

00:16:40.000 And that was the whole point is that the clip was taken out of context and they didn't include everything that he said.

00:16:44.000 And then Caroline Lovitt came out and everyone in the administration came back.

00:16:48.000 That's not true.

00:16:49.000 And they said, that's not true.

00:16:50.000 And then Rubio walked it back.

00:16:51.000 I get that, but I still think that Trump.

00:16:54.000 They clarified.

00:16:55.000 It was taken out of context.

00:16:56.000 Trump claimed that the bombing campaign the first time in Iran was a 12-day war and it's officially over.

00:17:02.000 He did not want this to happen.

00:17:03.000 So I genuinely believe that this is something that they did not want to have to do.

00:17:08.000 However, my point ultimately was, why is it that Trump is bombing the hell out of their leadership?

00:17:14.000 What are Trump's goals?

00:17:16.000 What do we see him trying to do?

00:17:17.000 Abraham Accords was massive. 0.71

00:17:19.000 He's trying to, he wants that legacy of being the guy who stabilized the Middle East, which is like one of the most ridiculous things anyone could aspire to do.

00:17:27.000 And Iran is basically like, nah.

00:17:29.000 So I think Trump got to the point where he's like, you can't negotiate with these people.

00:17:32.000 And then I imagine a bunch of neocons started laughing, being like, oh, yeah.

00:17:35.000 Like, you thought you were going to get in and negotiate and cut a deal.

00:17:38.000 It was never going to happen.

00:17:39.000 Well, Anthony Blinken even came out and talked about how Bibi was trying to get Barack Obama to do this.

00:17:44.000 Donald Trump in 2011 said, quote, our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. 0.89

00:17:52.000 He's weak and ineffective.

00:17:53.000 Now, what happened between 2011 and now, there's a big time jump, of course, here.

00:17:59.000 What I find weird was how Rubio came out and said what he said, and then the next day walked it back when asked by the same reporter, rephrasing the same exact statement that he made.

00:18:10.000 And this is why there's such a kind of like strange kind of circumstance here because we're first being told Iran's going to attack Israel.

00:18:17.000 Israel is going to attack Iran. 0.71

00:18:18.000 No, Israel was going to be the victim here. 0.73

00:18:22.000 No, Iran was going to attack the U.S. Which one is going on? 0.95

00:18:26.000 What's the truth here?

00:18:27.000 The messaging is off.

00:18:28.000 We don't know what's really going on.

00:18:30.000 And this is not how you convince the general public that everything's going along swimmingly because it doesn't seem like it.

00:18:36.000 It looks like they just did it and they're looking for a justification afterwards.

00:18:40.000 And it's pretty clear it's not going the way it should.

00:18:42.000 Let's go to this story.

00:18:42.000 It should be.

00:18:43.000 We've got breaking news.

00:18:44.000 This is a video that's been going massively viral.

00:18:46.000 This is Amichai Stein.

00:18:48.000 One of the oil tankers that was attacked by Iranian explosive boats in the Persian Gulf belongs to a U.S.-based company, Safe Sea Group, I believe is at the name of the company.

00:18:57.000 We've got two videos.

00:18:58.000 We've got this one as well as this from Disclose TV.

00:19:01.000 An American-owned oil tanker struck by explosive drone boats near Iraqi waters, preliminary reports indicate.

00:19:07.000 So we'll just play this video for you first.

00:19:11.000 I don't think there's any sound.

00:19:12.000 Okay, there may be some.

00:19:13.000 There we go.

00:19:19.000 Mass advantage.

00:19:20.000 The third has it all.

00:19:24.000 One of the craziest things about these tankers getting bombed is that these are some of the biggest explosions and fireballs ever in history because these are tankers with like ridiculous amounts of crude in them blowing up.

00:19:38.000 So here's, here's the other video and, uh, so this is the issue that, uh, we were talking about last night and.

00:19:52.000 And what I will say is, without getting in, I suppose this will still be ignite the argument.

00:19:56.000 The reason why the United States largely has been trying to go after Iran is because the Strait of Hormuz is 20% of global oil and gas.

00:20:05.000 So if you are a petro-dollar country, you are very concerned about what Iran is doing. 0.75

00:20:10.000 They have threatened to drop mines.

00:20:12.000 They're reportedly dropping mines now.

00:20:15.000 And they could be lying, but they're doing it so that ships are scared to transport oil.

00:20:19.000 So if you're a customer of this petro-dollar system, you're pissed.

00:20:24.000 Gas prices are going up.

00:20:26.000 In California, did you guys see it's at $8 a gallon in L.A.?

00:20:29.000 Good lord.

00:20:29.000 $8.21 for gas in L.A. Crazy.

00:20:32.000 This is the principal issue.

00:20:34.000 This is why Donald Trump is like, we can't allow these people to do things like this.

00:20:39.000 One country should not be able to disrupt 20% of global oil trade.

00:20:43.000 But it's more than that, though, because what Trump is doing is he's dealing with one of the three legs of the stool of our enemies.

00:20:49.000 We have China, Russia, and Iran.

00:20:52.000 And this also weakens China and Russia, who get their oil from Iran.

00:20:56.000 So when people talk about this, like it's Iran in this vacuum across the world, like what Donald Trump is doing is multiple layers deeper than that.

00:21:04.000 I'm not always the person that's like, oh, Donald Trump is always playing 4D chess.

00:21:08.000 I don't think that's always the case.

00:21:09.000 But in this case, it's really not just only about Iran.

00:21:11.000 But Trump came out and said he wants to help China.

00:21:13.000 He wants to help open up the trade routes, which predominantly does benefit China, India, and Europe.

00:21:18.000 But Trump said that specifically.

00:21:20.000 And what does that mean?

00:21:21.000 What he's saying is China is going to be on the petrodollar system.

00:21:25.000 That's what he's saying.

00:21:26.000 Because China has actively been working to get off of the petrodollar.

00:21:30.000 So you think master of the deal, art of the deal, Mr. President Donald Trump, is not getting people along with his messaging?

00:21:38.000 You think he's just like, oh, yeah, like China's fine.

00:21:40.000 No, he's killing them and he's.

00:21:43.000 He's now saying that he's going to insure a lot of these ships, right?

00:21:46.000 These ships are predominantly helping out China and India.

00:21:48.000 So he's going out of his way to help out.

00:21:50.000 Yes, we're talking about it.

00:21:52.000 So for the same reason the U.S. gives Pakistan $13 million for gender studies, we know that money went to some politician's pocket and he bought himself a Lambo.

00:22:01.000 The point is, by putting U.S. dollars in these countries, the goal is to get them to want to use U.S. dollars for their trade to be on the petrodollar system.

00:22:09.000 I'm not saying it's good.

00:22:09.000 I'm not saying you should agree with it.

00:22:11.000 But the motivation is, actually, let me put it like this for Luke, because you understand this.

00:22:16.000 Why is Trump supporting Saudi Arabia's attacks and the humanitarian crisis, like the violence in Yemen?

00:22:22.000 It has to do with Houthi rebels bombing the Red Sea and Donald Trump trying to kiss the pinky ring of the Saudis to get them back on the petro dealer contract that expired.

00:22:31.000 Well, the Housis are a proxy army of the Iranians. 0.97

00:22:33.000 So this has been a long conflict that the Israelis and the Americans have been working on because first they got rid of all the proxies. 0.99

00:22:40.000 They got rid of Hezbollah.

00:22:42.000 They got rid of all the other allies in the region.

00:22:45.000 Yes, and a lot of the Houthis as well.

00:22:47.000 So they got rid of their capabilities to strike back, and now they're slowly going after Iran. 0.66

00:22:52.000 Let me ask this, an honest question.

00:22:54.000 I'm curious your thoughts.

00:22:55.000 Should we allow the Houthi rebels to bomb civilian cargo vessels going through the Red Sea?

00:23:00.000 Of course not.

00:23:03.000 So just sorry, real quick.

00:23:04.000 The challenge is I don't have an issue with saying like, if the rebels are bombing cargo vessels, we're going to stop you.

00:23:12.000 I have a problem with Obama blowing up civilian targets in civilian restaurants and things like that.

00:23:17.000 I have an issue with curtailing the transparency on drone strikes in the Middle East because Trump doesn't want people to realize they've escalated that while they've pulled back on ground troops.

00:23:26.000 The challenge is all of these things are tied together.

00:23:30.000 And I was looking at domestic policy stuff earlier today, and the point is there's a machine in place that nobody can break.

00:23:38.000 You get an office.

00:23:39.000 I'll say this too for Brandon Herrera because we love the guy.

00:23:42.000 He's going to get an office and he's going to maybe move the needle an inch.

00:23:46.000 And I'm satisfied with that because we need to get every member of Congress out and get 500 Brandon Herreras. 0.73

00:23:52.000 In the meantime, though, he's going to be dropped into a machine that is churning and he's going to have very little ability to move it.

00:23:58.000 You know what I mean?

00:23:59.000 At the same time, I would prefer for Donald Trump to protect American shipping lanes, not international shipping lanes.

00:24:06.000 And if we weren't involved, hold on, hold on, hold on, if we weren't involved, if we weren't involved here, right, and we would have focused on America, like this would have strategically put China in a position to make Iran open up the Strait of Hormuz and stop this war, right?

00:24:21.000 By getting involved, you're making sure that you're doing the bidding of China. 0.99

00:24:24.000 And I have seen no deal about China accepting the U.S. petrol dollar at all.

00:24:28.000 And if I see it, I would gladly say that I'm wrong.

00:24:31.000 But we're doing the work for China right now, according to Donald Trump.

00:24:33.000 And so the issue is: do you want to trade oil in one and have China be the dominant unipolar global power, or do you want to pressure them to just accept the state of affairs with the U.S. naval police?

00:24:45.000 If that would be the thing that's happening here, okay, I would understand it.

00:24:49.000 But I haven't seen proof of that.

00:24:51.000 So paint us an alternate picture, Luke.

00:24:55.000 What does it look like if we're not doing all that?

00:24:56.000 America takes care of America and we invest in our people and we take care of our infrastructure.

00:25:02.000 We make sure that the debt that we have pay on.

00:25:04.000 We make sure that America is actually considered America in a way where we take care of our own problems first domestically.

00:25:11.000 We're not the police of the world.

00:25:13.000 I don't think we should be the police of the world.

00:25:16.000 We are the police of the world.

00:25:18.000 I don't think we should be, is the point.

00:25:21.000 The challenge is the U.S. principal export is U.S. naval police.

00:25:26.000 We tell these countries: if you use U.S. dollars for oil, the petrodollar system, we will guarantee safe passage for your vessels.

00:25:34.000 That's the principal reason why we're like, Iran's bad. 1.00

00:25:36.000 They're threatening the Red Sea and the Suez, and they're threatening the Gulf States' oil transport.

00:25:40.000 So this is why for decades the U.S. has been like, we've got to remove this government in Iran. 0.79

00:25:47.000 They control too much of this region, and our customers are mad.

00:25:51.000 I mean, we haven't replaced our government.

00:25:53.000 We replaced one Ayatollah with a more radical Ayatollah that just lost a lot of his family members. 0.56

00:25:58.000 I don't think you can airstrike your way into regime change.

00:26:00.000 But Iran was willing to negotiate, right?

00:26:02.000 And as Ariana was just bringing to negotiate.

00:26:07.000 Sorry, I didn't.

00:26:09.000 Yeah, I trust the guy who can't pronounce my name.

00:26:13.000 I can't pronounce anyone's name.

00:26:17.000 Sorry, preventing Iran from taking over the Strait of Hormuz or taking care of the Houthis that are attacking shipping lanes.

00:26:23.000 Like, that is taking care of U.S. interests.

00:26:26.000 Like, whether or not we want, whether or not we like it issue is taking care of interest.

00:26:26.000 Yes.

00:26:31.000 But it wouldn't be an issue if you look at, especially what the Houthis were doing.

00:26:35.000 It was more related towards what was happening in Gaza, right?

00:26:38.000 And that was our involvement as well.

00:26:39.000 So if we weren't involved in any of it, trade.

00:26:44.000 So the Houthis came out and said that we will start attacking ships because of what's happening in Gaza.

00:26:49.000 We want a Gaza ceasefire. 0.52

00:26:51.000 And they were actually care what's happening?

00:26:54.000 The Houthis are a proxy army of the Iranians, right? 0.84

00:26:56.000 And then fighting them are al-Qaeda.

00:26:58.000 And the United States under Barack Obama financed Al-Qaeda to fight the Houthis.

00:27:03.000 Okay, Luke, you got to pause real quick to make a point.

00:27:05.000 The Houthis statements are meaningless.

00:27:07.000 It's a proxy of Iran. 0.85

00:27:08.000 So they're just doing what Iran wants. 0.97

00:27:10.000 Yes.

00:27:10.000 But continue.

00:27:10.000 Yes.

00:27:11.000 No, no, I just explained it.

00:27:11.000 Yes.

00:27:13.000 We were on the side of al-Qaeda fighting the Houthis with Saudi Arabia under Barack Obama's administration.

00:27:19.000 We're involved in financing some of the worst awful people when that money should be here in America, right?

00:27:25.000 That money should be, I don't want to be taxed and my money being given to Abdullah, whether he's a House or a Kurd or a Shia. 1.00

00:27:33.000 I don't care about that.

00:27:34.000 I care about my people.

00:27:34.000 I care about this country.

00:27:36.000 Why the money's in America is because we started siphoning it out of Iran in the 1930s.

00:27:41.000 No, we did a coup d'état there before, and we overthrew their leadership with the CIA, and that didn't really work out, did it?

00:27:46.000 It took their oil and became rich.

00:27:48.000 Luke, do you understand what would happen if the petrodollar system ended?

00:27:52.000 Yes, the whole dollar system would collapse.

00:27:54.000 There would not be dollars, there would not be labor in the United States for what you're talking about.

00:27:58.000 Now, again, I'm not saying I agree with invading Iran or anything like that. 0.63

00:28:01.000 My point is, back in 2016, we had talked about this because I was telling people: if you like cheap laptops and 10-cent hot dogs on the street corner, Hillary Clinton's the candidate for you because she will bomb out of anybody to make sure we get that cheap oil and everyone's in our system.

00:28:17.000 Trump is the guy who is saying, secure our borders, bring our manufacturing back, strengthen ourselves internally so that there's real value in this country.

00:28:17.000 She's complimenting Trump.

00:28:25.000 Then we start to look outward.

00:28:27.000 And I agreed with that.

00:28:29.000 That's why I don't think that the Trump administration is mustache-twirling evil.

00:28:36.000 I question the Obama administration.

00:28:38.000 I question some people in the Trump administration, but I understand there's going to be biases in all these things.

00:28:43.000 When I look at the Obama administration, I see mustache-twirling evil.

00:28:47.000 When I look at the Trump administration, I see naivete.

00:28:51.000 Oh, it's must-twirling.

00:28:52.000 They're all the machine twirls its own mustache and they get in there and they're being twirled with it.

00:28:57.000 No.

00:28:58.000 And if you say no, they assassinate you. 0.99

00:28:59.000 Barack Obama killed a 16-year-old kid.

00:29:02.000 And I know that Donald Trump has been accused of civilian strikes that have killed Americans, including the 16-year-old's sister.

00:29:08.000 And so this is all true to the best of our understanding.

00:29:13.000 I will say a couple things on this.

00:29:14.000 The Obama administration admitted to the strikes that killed the 16-year-old.

00:29:17.000 The Trump administration has been accused.

00:29:20.000 It's an alleged crime.

00:29:21.000 We don't have the same degree of evidence.

00:29:23.000 Yeah, to be fair, the Trump stuff was the girl caught around in a gunfight.

00:29:27.000 It wasn't a strike on the ground.

00:29:29.000 It was a commando raid, but it was alleged by the family.

00:29:31.000 So I'm willing to say that deserves an investigation.

00:29:34.000 I'm not going to ignore it, but it's not the same as Obama admitting they blew up a 16-year-old American kid, bombing a country we're not at, war with targeting civilian restaurants.

00:29:42.000 That's the mustache-twirling evil.

00:29:44.000 And the reason Obama did that was because he was sending a message to the world: if you fight us, we will massacre your children. 0.96

00:29:50.000 We don't care.

00:29:51.000 And I got to say this: I kind of love the masculinity of it, despite it being depraved evil. 1.00

00:29:58.000 Obama looked into the eyes of jihadis and said, I'm going to kill your children. 0.99

00:30:02.000 And they went, what? 1.00

00:30:03.000 You're America's.

00:30:03.000 You can't do that.

00:30:04.000 Watch me.

00:30:05.000 And he pressed the button and he blew up the person's kid.

00:30:07.000 That is evil.

00:30:09.000 He later came out and said how he felt awful about his foreign policy and endeavors and still feels very bad about what he did.

00:30:16.000 Now, I do believe that there's a world where we can negotiate, we can make trade deals.

00:30:19.000 We're the number one superpower in the world.

00:30:21.000 We have a lot to trade with.

00:30:22.000 We have a lot to invest with.

00:30:24.000 This could have all been done by prioritizing America. 0.72

00:30:27.000 Look at the way China is doing it with the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:30:29.000 We could have done similar initiatives.

00:30:31.000 We didn't need to bomb the country.

00:30:32.000 We didn't need to be in debt.

00:30:34.000 We're $39 trillion in debt.

00:30:36.000 And what do we have to show for it?

00:30:37.000 $11 trillion on the Middle East.

00:30:39.000 And we got Al-Qaeda replaced by Al-Qaeda.

00:30:41.000 Look, look, but you understand the Belt and Road Initiative is just China's version of the International Monetary Fund.

00:30:46.000 Yeah.

00:30:46.000 So we, exactly.

00:30:48.000 The West was cutting these deals and saying we'll develop your nation.

00:30:52.000 And I hate it. 0.93

00:30:52.000 I hate it. 0.93

00:30:53.000 You know what I want?

00:30:54.000 This is what I was saying.

00:30:55.000 I love the idea of a world police.

00:30:56.000 I really, really do.

00:30:57.000 I love the idea of 20 aircraft carriers floating around saying, don't F around because you will find out.

00:31:03.000 What I don't like is the same system then started injecting gay communism to all these other countries and bringing McDonald's and Starbucks to turning everything in Times Square. 1.00

00:31:11.000 And this is what pissed people off. 0.53

00:31:13.000 This is what got the people in Afghanistan were pissed. 0.99

00:31:16.000 Use the gay communism. 1.00

00:31:17.000 There were murals in Afghanistan for LGBTQ stuff. 0.83

00:31:22.000 And I'm like, you have a conservative religious country and you're trying to bring gay communism. 1.00

00:31:26.000 No wonder you couldn't stabilize for 20 years.

00:31:29.000 Here's what I like the idea of.

00:31:30.000 Nations can be nations.

00:31:31.000 They get their own borders.

00:31:33.000 They can choose who comes and goes.

00:31:34.000 They get to live their lives.

00:31:35.000 They have internal laws.

00:31:36.000 They engage in trade.

00:31:37.000 But if they start bombing people in the Red Sea, for instance, then we come in and say, no, it's not happening.

00:31:43.000 Unfortunately, this idea of a liberal economic order, which was supposed to be, we go and develop countries, we give you loans, you pay those loans back, we stabilize trade around you, we stop war from happening, isn't what they did.

00:31:54.000 They started injecting gay communism to a bunch of countries, and that screwed up all of this international order that AOC claims that Trump is screwing up.

00:32:03.000 Really, this problem with centralized authority in general is they'll bait you with the, let's make you safe, everyone subserve to my authority, and then they twist you up with their weird thoughts to get superpowers.

00:32:15.000 They want to be in total control.

00:32:16.000 They want to put you to sleep, man, and just earn off your back.

00:32:21.000 So it might be like some chaos on earth and no real one world police may end up being better, but I don't know, man.

00:32:27.000 I see the machine state, the quiet death.

00:32:29.000 War is evil.

00:32:30.000 War is demonic, but it's a racket.

00:32:32.000 It's a racket by special interest groups that have hijacked it throughout the last few decades.

00:32:36.000 Ever since the war on terror was initiated, we got more terror.

00:32:40.000 We lost more of our money.

00:32:41.000 We lost more of our privacy.

00:32:42.000 We lost more of our rights.

00:32:43.000 And we have nothing to show for it except debt.

00:32:45.000 All right.

00:32:46.000 We could have done this in a totally different way where we weren't financing the radicals like we did in the 80s and then they came over like the Mulhajid and the quote freedom fighters.

00:32:54.000 So let me ask you about the domestic effects of all of those policies.

00:32:59.000 As it pertains to people at home, what do you think is like the results of all of these things?

00:33:05.000 We subpund it, we funded al-Qaeda and stuff. 0.90

00:33:08.000 What do you think is the worst ramification?

00:33:09.000 This is a legitimate question.

00:33:10.000 I'm not playing against it.

00:33:11.000 Yeah, the destruction of the U.S. dollar and the purchasing power of the dollar.

00:33:14.000 Like people had to work harder to get work harder and get less.

00:33:18.000 We're printing money and we're giving it to this just huge endeavors in the Middle East and we have nothing to show for it.

00:33:26.000 I think one of the obvious answers would be that 9-11, which the CIA called blowback for Middle Eastern operations.

00:33:34.000 We were meddling in affairs in the Middle East for decades, since, I mean, like the early 1900s, but it became predominantly U.S. operations in the 50s.

00:33:43.000 And this results in an expansion of terror.

00:33:45.000 We funded the Mujahideen, who then become Al-Qaeda, and then we get blowback because they don't like us.

00:33:51.000 So I think the challenge is here, where I'd push back on you a little bit, Luke, is the petrodollar system makes us fat and comfortable.

00:34:00.000 We get more than we deserve because of this system.

00:34:03.000 Without it, we would largely be like factory workers and farmers.

00:34:07.000 I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, mind you.

00:34:10.000 But when you say stuff like the dollar is weakened or whatever, I think the bigger problem is the threat of violence, terror, and instability in various regions, like terrorism being the principal issue.

00:34:21.000 These are the trade-offs that we have.

00:34:23.000 Economically, I think people don't realize just how good we have it.

00:34:26.000 And if you were to end this petrodollar system, our economy would tank.

00:34:31.000 Like laptops would cost $3,000 or $4,000.

00:34:34.000 I'm not saying the petrodollar increasing petrol dollars is great.

00:34:36.000 I think it's crazy to be able to do it.

00:34:38.000 How do you keep the petrodollar with all the straight away?

00:34:41.000 There's the carrot and the stick.

00:34:42.000 We've become literally just do you agree?

00:34:49.000 So Obama's stance was: let's appease Iran. 0.74

00:34:52.000 I'm not trying to be a dick when I say this.

00:34:54.000 He said, Iran's threatening the Strait and the Gulf states and 20% of global trade.

00:34:58.000 Let's give them money and just keep them happy. 0.99

00:35:00.000 They didn't give them money.

00:35:02.000 They opened up their bank accounts that they sanctioned and closed.

00:35:05.000 Indeed, pallets full of cash was the quote.

00:35:07.000 But it was money that was seized.

00:35:08.000 Yes, Obama released tons of cash to them saying we're going to appease them.

00:35:13.000 It didn't work.

00:35:15.000 Trump's strategy is, I'm going to blow them all up.

00:35:18.000 I'm not convinced it will work.

00:35:19.000 I don't think you can take over a country with missiles.

00:35:21.000 You need an occupying force.

00:35:22.000 But with that deal, we did.

00:35:24.000 Jared's smiling.

00:35:24.000 She likes Trump.

00:35:26.000 We did have inspectors that went to Iran and they lied about everything, bro.

00:35:32.000 Let me say this.

00:35:33.000 Are you actually quoting the inspectors right now?

00:35:36.000 Bro, Trump doesn't have to be able to do it.

00:35:37.000 They promised us.

00:35:39.000 Wait, they pinky promised us.

00:35:40.000 Do you still believe in Santa Claus also?

00:35:42.000 Sorry, I'm angry.

00:35:44.000 Iran Halloween was 40 years ago. 0.93

00:35:46.000 That's more Santa Claus.

00:35:49.000 Children, if you're watching, Santa is real.

00:35:52.000 Israel.

00:35:52.000 And Donald Trump told us they annihilated Iran's nuclear capabilities.

00:35:57.000 The 12-day war is just we took out their nuclear capabilities.

00:36:00.000 That was not true.

00:36:02.000 It's not true.

00:36:02.000 It was not.

00:36:03.000 But you know what?

00:36:04.000 But we're also, we're in a time right now where Iran and their proxies have never been weaker. 0.99

00:36:09.000 And that's why the U.S. is doing this right now.

00:36:11.000 This is the moment.

00:36:13.000 This is it.

00:36:13.000 I agree.

00:36:14.000 My hope is I'm not so naive to think that there will never come a time where, let me not use so many negatives.

00:36:24.000 Sometimes you got to use war power.

00:36:26.000 Brandon Herrera made the excellent point of we don't want to start wars.

00:36:30.000 We don't want to get into needless wars.

00:36:32.000 We don't want to get into forever wars.

00:36:34.000 But there is a point where you're going to say, if you F with us, I'm going to show you what a trillion dollars looks like.

00:36:40.000 And I agree, and I respect that.

00:36:43.000 The challenge with this, the reason why I'm not, look, in all things, I try to avoid being an extremist on any position because I think these things are nuanced.

00:36:51.000 I think that if at a certain point Iran was able to actually develop nuclear weapons, I don't think they'd randomly just start bombing countries.

00:37:00.000 I do think in war, they would use nukes. 0.89

00:37:03.000 So I think in the immediate, what they would do is they would say, now that we have a nuclear weapon, it's time for you to give us more.

00:37:09.000 And Trump doesn't want to negotiate with the nuclear power.

00:37:12.000 So that's why he's like, it's not going to happen.

00:37:14.000 But Bibi was telling us that they were going to nuke New York City. 0.99

00:37:16.000 Yeah, because he's nuts. 0.95

00:37:17.000 Yeah, just because Bib was saying that. 1.00

00:37:20.000 It's the stupidest thing. 0.99

00:37:21.000 And I'm going to say this too for the meeting that I had with him where he was like, they're going to nuke you. 1.00

00:37:25.000 And we're like, oh, shut up.

00:37:26.000 Like, if they even get to the point that those rockets aren't going to reach the other side of the planet.

00:37:30.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:37:31.000 Like, I think.

00:37:32.000 They're not, but the drones are.

00:37:33.000 The drones are going to be on ships in the Pacific that will launch over three miles, which is different from an intercontinental ballistic missile going 20,000 miles.

00:37:44.000 But all the people complaining right now about gas prices very temporarily going up and straight over moves.

00:37:49.000 Imagine how high gas could go.

00:37:53.000 We've got the story from car scoops.

00:37:53.000 Let's not imagine.

00:37:55.000 The $8 gallon is here if you're dumb enough to pay for it. 0.96

00:37:58.000 War jitters and California tax quirks push pump prices skyward in the golden state, but not all stations are so expensive. 0.97

00:38:05.000 $8.21 per gallon in Los Angeles.

00:38:08.000 Now, of course, this is a massive urban metro.

00:38:11.000 It's one of our biggest cities.

00:38:12.000 So, of course, the prices are very, very high.

00:38:14.000 The average price of gas in California is upwards of $5.25.

00:38:19.000 However, my friends, this is because of California's tax system, not because of the war.

00:38:24.000 The prices have gone up because of the war. 1.00

00:38:26.000 True, but $8 is because California has stupid taxes. 1.00

00:38:29.000 Special California. 0.99

00:38:31.000 Gas was hovering around like $250, $230, and it did go up 20%.

00:38:35.000 So people are now looking at $2.80, maybe even high as $3 in many urban metros, which is not good, but it's nowhere near the apocalypse that many liberals are starting to bring up.

00:38:47.000 That being said, I am not going to play games where I downplay the fact that gas prices are going up because a war in Iran started.

00:38:56.000 If Trump is able to get whatever he's trying to get done in Iran in a couple of weeks and all of this stops and normalizes, I will say, okay, good.

00:39:04.000 But you said whatever he's trying to get.

00:39:07.000 That's the problem.

00:39:07.000 I don't think he knows what's happening.

00:39:09.000 They thought we're going to bomb and kill 140 people in their leadership and then they're going to give up.

00:39:14.000 And they went all in, and now we're all in.

00:39:19.000 They will stay at war with us for 20 years if we're not.

00:39:21.000 We're nowhere near all in.

00:39:23.000 All in would be drafting 18-year-olds and sending them to Norway. 0.54

00:39:28.000 So you declared essentially de facto war on Iran.

00:39:30.000 The war has started now.

00:39:32.000 I will give the, you know, I had the debate on this show last week where I said we're at war and the other guy was like, it's not war.

00:39:39.000 And everybody was rolling their eyes like, bro, it's war.

00:39:42.000 I will give one.

00:39:43.000 There was an IRL chat made a really great point that a declaration of war by Congress gives the president a ton of powers.

00:39:51.000 He has the power to change industry, to direct production.

00:39:54.000 It opens up a bunch of budgets.

00:39:56.000 And so there is an argument to be made.

00:39:58.000 The reason Trump doesn't want this to be a formalized congressional war is that it's going to change the economic footing of the country in a way that could be damaging.

00:40:06.000 Now, that's the argument of, and it's a good thing.

00:40:08.000 And it's like, no, it didn't happen.

00:40:10.000 It happened, but it wasn't that.

00:40:11.000 Actually, it happened.

00:40:12.000 It's that he's using executive authority to declare war like a tyrant.

00:40:12.000 And it's a good thing.

00:40:16.000 Come on.

00:40:16.000 I mean, I'm not sure.

00:40:17.000 I'm not saying that Iran is a great country. 1.00

00:40:19.000 It doesn't need to be taken care of here, but we'll be realistic that this guy's acting like a tyrant and maybe a benevolent tyrant, maybe.

00:40:26.000 But that's a form of tyranny.

00:40:27.000 I mean, these executive orders and going to war, one guy.

00:40:30.000 I suppose the argument is, because I don't necessarily disagree that it's tyrannical to launch a war against another country without proper declaration, without proper constitutional authority.

00:40:39.000 The issue that I see with this is that literally every president has done it for a long time and that we are living in this system of executive over authority.

00:40:47.000 And I'm like, I'm not going, guys, I'm a teenager and I watched George W. Bush and I'm like, I am very critical of this.

00:40:55.000 And then people are like, don't you remember the other presidents?

00:40:58.000 I was like, no, I'm 16.

00:40:59.000 Like, let me tell you about Vietnam.

00:41:00.000 And I went, really?

00:41:01.000 Then Obama does it.

00:41:02.000 And I go, oh, this is just what our government is.

00:41:02.000 Then Trump does it.

00:41:06.000 So it's not unique to Trump.

00:41:06.000 Yeah.

00:41:08.000 I'm not trying to defend Trump on the issue, though, but this is what the U.S. is.

00:41:12.000 It's almost as if every president that campaigns always says there will be no war, but then there's like a shadow super government that just kind of takes over whenever they get into any kind of position.

00:41:22.000 Are you talking about Israel?

00:41:23.000 No, I'm talking about more of the deep state, more of the swamp that's kind of being referred to.

00:41:32.000 Literally, everybody watches, he's heard me argue like 30 minutes.

00:41:36.000 I'm talking about oil, right?

00:41:38.000 Because I think it's still important to talk about energy and energy resources here.

00:41:42.000 Trump did say that he wants to get rid of oil sanctions on certain countries.

00:41:45.000 He didn't name them.

00:41:46.000 But the one country that we have a lot of oil sanctions on is Russia.

00:41:51.000 So the argument that we're fighting Russia and China through this war here doesn't really stick since it looks like we're going to be opening up Russia's markets and opening up China's trade here.

00:42:01.000 I think really America first. 0.72

00:42:03.000 It's like knocking out the legs of a table and being like, look, guys, it was flimsy the whole time.

00:42:07.000 Just come back. 0.99

00:42:08.000 It's like we blew out their fucking, their oil support. 0.99

00:42:11.000 And we're like, there's no stopping us. 0.99

00:42:14.000 You can't just get on board.

00:42:16.000 Well, I mean, look, the oh, never mind.

00:42:19.000 I had something that just slipped my mind.

00:42:21.000 Russia has a bunch of oil.

00:42:22.000 China's developing a whole bunch of nuclear reactors and a bunch of solar panels as well that they're heavily investing in.

00:42:29.000 Their energy production is going through the roof.

00:42:32.000 We could be doing the same thing, by the way.

00:42:34.000 We could be doing the same thing.

00:42:35.000 But no, we're off-committing whatever.

00:42:35.000 We should be doing the same thing.

00:42:39.000 Oil refineries and water desalination plants in Iran for some reason.

00:42:43.000 That's what our money's going to.

00:42:45.000 We could have been building more nuclear reactors.

00:42:47.000 We could have been making America energy independent.

00:42:49.000 But no, we got to go bomb the water desalination plant.

00:42:52.000 Both the U.S. and China have a different strategy when it comes to AI because that's what both of these things are talking about, whether you're talking about infrastructure.

00:42:52.000 I get it.

00:43:00.000 And China's going to win because they have energy independence.

00:43:02.000 That's great.

00:43:03.000 Hold on.

00:43:04.000 Chill out, bro.

00:43:06.000 Like, the U.S. right now has a lock on the chips because of their relationship with Taiwan.

00:43:11.000 China has basically older generation chips.

00:43:15.000 China's looking at the long road, though, because at some point the bottleneck isn't going to be the chips.

00:43:19.000 The bottleneck is going to be the energy production.

00:43:21.000 China's looking at this from the long run.

00:43:23.000 The U.S. needs to change our policy when it comes to energy production.

00:43:27.000 I just saw that there was a nuclear plant that's going to be opening.

00:43:30.000 I don't know when it's actually going to happen, but the U.S. is looking to make those changes, but they're behind the eight ball in the energy production.

00:43:36.000 But for now, the U.S. does have the edge when it comes to the chips and winter.

00:43:40.000 The chips are getting rid of our defensive TAD missile systems in Asia because we're bringing them over to the Middle East.

00:43:45.000 And then China's looking at Taiwan here, motivated than ever to take it.

00:43:50.000 I don't think that China has the ability to take Taiwan in the situation.

00:43:55.000 What does THAD stand for?

00:43:57.000 Thad?

00:43:58.000 Yeah, no idea.

00:43:59.000 Thad missile systems.

00:44:00.000 Yeah.

00:44:00.000 You don't even know?

00:44:01.000 No.

00:44:02.000 So you never looked it up?

00:44:04.000 I'm just teasing you because nobody knows what it stands for.

00:44:06.000 We just call it Thad.

00:44:07.000 It's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.

00:44:10.000 I did that because I know everybody just reads the news and we call them the Thad missiles, but no one actually knows that.

00:44:14.000 They're trying to tucker me.

00:44:15.000 They're not even.

00:44:16.000 They're not even misses.

00:44:17.000 They're just radar.

00:44:18.000 But look, you're also wrong because China gets, what is it, over half of their oil from Iran?

00:44:22.000 No, They get it.

00:44:23.000 They need energy.

00:44:24.000 They get forgetting.

00:44:25.000 They don't get Iran. 0.95

00:44:25.000 They do, but they only get, when I wrote about this the other day, they get something along the lines of like China imports 11.6 million barrels of oil per day. 0.95

00:44:36.000 Of that, roughly 1.3 million barrels come from Iran.

00:44:39.000 13 to 14% of China's total seaborne imports come from Iran.

00:44:43.000 Seaborne imports.

00:44:44.000 80% of Iran's oil.

00:44:46.000 So taking out Iran doesn't like cripple China, but what it does is it's attacking China from the edges. 0.96

00:44:52.000 It's not crippling China.

00:44:54.000 There are people that are saying that this takes, that they get so much oil from Iran.

00:44:57.000 That's not the case.

00:44:58.000 They do get a significant portion.

00:45:01.000 And when you combine Venezuela and Iran, then it actually turns into a realistic percent, but it's not crippling.

00:45:09.000 Let me ask you, Luke, and also Aaron, you can check in: what do you think about the operation in Venezuela?

00:45:16.000 I think it's some people say a successful operation mainly because of the regime change.

00:45:23.000 But when we look at the regime change, you pretty much just put in the vice president of that country.

00:45:30.000 Geopolitically, we're going to see how it plays out, right?

00:45:33.000 And I think we still haven't seen it really be finished.

00:45:37.000 So I know we got rid of Maduro.

00:45:39.000 We have his underlings that are in power now.

00:45:41.000 How is that relationship going to play out?

00:45:43.000 Is it even going to mean anything?

00:45:44.000 We're going to see.

00:45:45.000 But you're not instantly negative on it.

00:45:47.000 No, we need to see the results.

00:45:49.000 I agree.

00:45:49.000 We need to see the results from this.

00:45:51.000 I will say this.

00:45:52.000 I'm actually, as time goes on and we're seeing that things are remaining stable, I'm more and more in favor of it.

00:45:57.000 And again, as Ian pointed out, I call this post-intervention stress disorder, pissed.

00:46:02.000 The millennial generation is like, we grew up learning about Vietnam, and then we watched Iraq and Afghanistan happen. 0.98

00:46:07.000 And it's like, wow, we suck at this.

00:46:08.000 Maybe we shouldn't do it. 0.73

00:46:10.000 But real quick, that being said, the thing that pisses me off the most about Venezuela is that in 2009, Chavez stole our oil assets.

00:46:19.000 They belong to us.

00:46:22.000 I go to you and say, hey, hey, Luke, is it okay if I build a little sprinkler system on your, I'm going to build a fountain on your lawn.

00:46:28.000 I just want to be able to get the water out of it.

00:46:30.000 You say, yeah, totally fine.

00:46:30.000 Is that cool?

00:46:31.000 We'll split the water.

00:46:32.000 And then one day you go, it's mine now.

00:46:33.000 Exactly.

00:46:34.000 And then the U.S., real quick, the U.S. went rats and ignored it.

00:46:38.000 And now it's been some 17 years, 16 years, Trump says we're taking our stuff back.

00:46:43.000 So I don't look at that as unjust.

00:46:45.000 My concern with it always was: will it destabilize the region where cartels could easily start seizing power and manipulating?

00:46:51.000 So far, it's starting to look better and better.

00:46:54.000 And I'm feeling kind of good about it.

00:46:56.000 We're going to see how it plays off.

00:46:57.000 But I remember during the Iraq war, which I was against, I was protesting.

00:47:01.000 I was very young then.

00:47:02.000 But I remember after George W. Bush declared mission accomplished, for a long time, everyone saw this as a huge success, as a huge victory.

00:47:10.000 Only until eight months to a year did people finally start to realize, holy cow, this was a big mistake.

00:47:17.000 And this didn't work out at all as Bibi was in our Congress telling us that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was going to nuke New York, just like he just said the same exact thing about Iran as well.

00:47:32.000 The policy in Iraq was a big part of the problem, though.

00:47:36.000 Like trying to de-bathify the entire country.

00:47:38.000 Of course.

00:47:39.000 You take the military, all the military, and you tell all these military-age men that are trained, they're like, go home.

00:47:46.000 We're totally dissolving your position. 0.92

00:47:48.000 All those people are just like, well, I've got nothing else to do, but I know how to fight, so I'm going to go and fight the job.

00:47:52.000 They joined the Sunnis.

00:47:53.000 Yeah.

00:47:54.000 Which is, I mean, that was a terrible idea in the first place.

00:47:56.000 The fact that in Venezuela, the Trump administration took out Maduro and they just left the government and said, look, play ball with us, or we will come to get you.

00:48:06.000 Obviously, it's a different situation when you turn the lights out in a whole city, shut the whole city off, go and do what you want, grab the president and leave.

00:48:13.000 The rest of the people in the government are going to be like, we probably should play ball.

00:48:16.000 So it is different.

00:48:17.000 But at the same time, if you leave the infrastructure there, the government structures there, and don't tell people that are trained to fight to go and go home with nothing to do, you're likely to get a better outcome than you got in Iraq. 0.52

00:48:32.000 Let's jump to some domestic policy stuff because we've got a big story here, and that is the Save America Act.

00:48:38.000 For those that are unfamiliar, this is a bill that basically would require, well, literally, would require proof of citizenship when you register to vote, not when you actually vote.

00:48:46.000 It's supported by basically everybody in this country.

00:48:49.000 In fact, 71% of Democrats believe you should have an ID when you literally vote, not just register.

00:48:54.000 Republicans, it's like 95.

00:48:56.000 Independents about 80%.

00:48:57.000 The question then becomes, if literally everybody supports this, and it's one of the most popular bills we have ever seen in our lifetime, why are Democrats and Rhino-Republicans, I know it's kind of redundant, but still, why are they blocking this?

00:49:11.000 Something doesn't quite make sense.

00:49:13.000 The latest story, of course, is that Thune has quashed Trump's push for filibuster reform.

00:49:17.000 They pulled a bunch of shenanigans.

00:49:20.000 First, many people on the right have said, kill the filibuster.

00:49:23.000 You can change the rules so there's no filibuster and a simple majority will pass this bill.

00:49:28.000 Then the media said, well, actually, there's talk of making Democrats do a talking filibuster.

00:49:33.000 No one suggested it.

00:49:34.000 That's controlled opposition.

00:49:36.000 Now, John Thune is saying a talking filibuster wouldn't work, which was never the pitch anyway.

00:49:42.000 They are shutting this down.

00:49:44.000 And the question is why.

00:49:46.000 Now, where it gets interesting, Cornyn in Texas, who's facing a runoff election against Ken Paxton, was not supporting the SAVE Act, not supporting nuking the filibuster.

00:49:57.000 And all of a sudden, he changed his tune because he's at risk of losing his seat.

00:50:01.000 And Ken Paxton said he will drop out of the race if Cornyn pledges to vote in the SAVE Act, which he's not going to do.

00:50:07.000 Well, the interesting thing is, we got this over from Kalshi.

00:50:10.000 Shout out Kalshi for sponsoring this show.

00:50:13.000 We've got this from Kalshi showing.

00:50:15.000 Cornyn and Paxton have flipped back and forth.

00:50:18.000 And right here, Ken Paxton was the favorite to win.

00:50:20.000 But when Cornyn came out and said, you know what?

00:50:24.000 I'm going to do whatever.

00:50:26.000 He said, change whatever rule you need to pass the SAVE Act.

00:50:28.000 It immediately switched with now the prediction markets favoring Cornyn to win, which I find very fascinating.

00:50:35.000 But I'm going to tell you guys what I think before we kick this off to the panel.

00:50:38.000 The reason why Cornyn came out and said, I'm in favor of this, is because he got assurances from Thune and from Democrats.

00:50:43.000 It will never pass anyway.

00:50:45.000 So they're allowing him to say what he needs to say to his voter base so they will vote for him while Ken Paxton, of course, is the legitimate and real choice.

00:50:53.000 He is now coming out saying, I'm with you, people, because behind the scenes, they put up a wall.

00:50:58.000 It will never pass.

00:51:00.000 You guys, Texas, Ken Paxton is the right guy.

00:51:04.000 Cornyn and these Rhino dudes, they're playing dirty games. 1.00

00:51:08.000 So I'll throw it to you guys.

00:51:09.000 Why do you think it is that despite the fact everybody in this country wants this bill to pass, they won't pass it?

00:51:14.000 Well, the Democrats don't want it to pay.

00:51:16.000 Republicans do.

00:51:17.000 I know there aren't enough Republicans on board, and I think that there should be pregnant people. 1.00

00:51:21.000 They could nuke the filibuster. 0.69

00:51:22.000 Yeah, I would love to see him nuke the filibuster than they were.

00:51:24.000 So, why is John Thune like again?

00:51:26.000 We understand Democrats hate Trump and all that, but the bigger question is: why are even Republicans against it?

00:51:32.000 Yeah, Lisa Murkowski is against it as well. 0.96

00:51:33.000 Yeah, she's cut a deal.

00:51:34.000 She cut a deal to vote no against it.

00:51:36.000 So, why are Republicans being like, nah, everybody wants it?

00:51:39.000 Again, granted, it's only a few Republicans, but they only need a few Republicans.

00:51:43.000 Well, I'm not sure what the reasons they've tried to articulate, but I think it's the voters are going to be disenfranchised, is what Murkowski is saying.

00:51:49.000 Murkowski was discussing.

00:51:50.000 That's what he said, Alaska.

00:51:51.000 Well, Chuck Schumer has tens of billions.

00:51:53.000 Well, true.

00:51:54.000 Tens of billions of people.

00:51:56.000 So I don't know if he's talking about like this bill can traverse time or I got the dead people he's talking about.

00:52:02.000 Here's the video.

00:52:03.000 Here's the video.

00:52:03.000 Let's play it.

00:52:05.000 Voter ID number one.

00:52:08.000 It is about voter registration.

00:52:10.000 It makes it, it allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls.

00:52:10.000 That's true.

00:52:19.000 I think he just had billions of people off to kick tens of billions of people off.

00:52:28.000 Literally said tens of billions.

00:52:30.000 Come on.

00:52:31.000 I heard billions too.

00:52:33.000 Everybody heard billions.

00:52:34.000 Everybody heard it.

00:52:35.000 I actually, for the first time in my entire life, I agree with Ian.

00:52:38.000 He had the snotty.

00:52:40.000 He's snotty. 0.96

00:52:40.000 He's a sniper. 0.96

00:52:41.000 He's just like, you know, he's a little nasally.

00:52:43.000 Tens of millions.

00:52:44.000 Yeah, fortunately, he's not in the sense of that.

00:52:46.000 I'm the first one to call out Chuck Schumer.

00:52:49.000 I'm not suggesting he literally thinks there's tens of billions of people.

00:52:52.000 I'm saying he just misspoke and it's funny.

00:52:54.000 And it is funny.

00:52:55.000 Yeah, he misspoke and it's funny.

00:52:56.000 He said tens of billions.

00:52:57.000 Yeah, but if he did say that, I'd start to question his sanity and think he should resign.

00:53:00.000 I'm glad it was more, sounded like more congestion.

00:53:02.000 What do the subtitles say?

00:53:06.000 I don't think there are any.

00:53:07.000 Are there?

00:53:07.000 I don't know.

00:53:08.000 Yeah, no, there aren't any.

00:53:09.000 Maybe you'd have to go to a well, actually, you know what I'll do?

00:53:13.000 He needs to alkalize the lymphatic system.

00:53:15.000 I'm going to ask Brock to translate it.

00:53:16.000 We should send him one of those neti pots.

00:53:18.000 Is that what it is?

00:53:20.000 Do it through your net, right?

00:53:20.000 That's it.

00:53:22.000 That's how you solve it.

00:53:22.000 But I've never done them because apparently I think you could get something weird in your brain.

00:53:26.000 You get parasites.

00:53:26.000 Yeah, you can get a parasite in your brain and get like bacteria in your brain if you do that.

00:53:30.000 Just use distilled water.

00:53:31.000 Just distilled water?

00:53:32.000 I'm just not going to try it. 0.84

00:53:34.000 What the hell?

00:53:35.000 I'm just going to say billions. 0.88

00:53:36.000 I mean, tens of hands.

00:53:39.000 It looks like a tea kettle.

00:53:40.000 And people were.

00:53:42.000 Yeah, they were using tap water and then dying because the amoebas would go into their brain and they'd be like, and then they would and then die.

00:53:49.000 True story.

00:53:51.000 Okay, so here's what Grock transcribe is.

00:53:55.000 It says, here's the transcription of the video from the X Post.

00:53:57.000 Quote, yes, but their bill isn't voter ID number one.

00:54:00.000 It's about voter registration.

00:54:01.000 It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of tens of billions off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election day.

00:54:08.000 And you show them, you say, you're not registered anymore.

00:54:10.000 You're not on the rolls.

00:54:12.000 He said billions.

00:54:13.000 He's talking about aliens.

00:54:15.000 And I don't mean the illegal ones.

00:54:17.000 I mean the ones up there.

00:54:18.000 Oh, God.

00:54:20.000 Oh, God.

00:54:21.000 Well, he slipped up.

00:54:23.000 You know, the mask came off.

00:54:23.000 He slipped up.

00:54:25.000 The truth is they're.

00:54:25.000 We're talking about all the Jews that are coming to the country.

00:54:28.000 Yeah, that was one of the things that billions of Jews that will come in.

00:54:31.000 One of the other arguments we heard yesterday is that there's actually more than 14 million Jews because they're keeping it a secret.

00:54:37.000 So Murkowski's saying how Murkowski's saying, you're saying the dating pool is actually larger than his proposal.

00:54:42.000 Yeah, apparently there's like a billion Jews.

00:54:44.000 Murkowski's saying that the reasons are federal overreach and the state's authority.

00:54:48.000 And she's saying she's concerned about making major election changes too close to the midterms, which I think is the whole point of the act is to make sure that there is a change before the midterms.

00:54:58.000 Thune is saying that he supports the bill in principle, but is blocking the procedural path.

00:55:02.000 His argument is that changing the filibuster rule is a bigger risk.

00:55:05.000 He needs 60 votes to advance it and doesn't have them.

00:55:08.000 When Trump pushed the talking filibuster workaround, Thune said we aren't there, essentially protecting the filibuster over the bill.

00:55:14.000 Curtis from Utah says the reason or method doesn't matter.

00:55:16.000 It's breaking the filibuster, which is objecting on procedure.

00:55:19.000 And Rand Paul is against it because it's inconsistent with states' rights, you know, the 10th Amendment.

00:55:28.000 So, I mean, they're all lying.

00:55:31.000 I mean, obviously.

00:55:32.000 Yeah.

00:55:33.000 So, I mean, I think that, you know, Rand Paul is actually not a surprise when it comes to that particular perspective, but I do think that these are actually pretty weak arguments.

00:55:44.000 The whole federal overreach thing, the point of this is just making sure that the voter roles are only citizens.

00:55:51.000 So this is not some kind of federal overreach.

00:55:54.000 He's not telling anybody how they have to do the votes.

00:55:56.000 All they're saying is they have to verify.

00:55:58.000 All right.

00:55:58.000 So here's the kicker.

00:56:00.000 Where do most people register to vote?

00:56:02.000 Post office.

00:56:02.000 DMV.

00:56:03.000 The DMV.

00:56:03.000 That is correct.

00:56:04.000 Or for those in those fancy Commonwealth states, the MVC, which is weird.

00:56:08.000 Why do you call it that?

00:56:10.000 So what do you go to the DMV for?

00:56:13.000 Driver's license.

00:56:14.000 To get your ID.

00:56:15.000 And what do you need to get it?

00:56:16.000 You need your birth certificate.

00:56:18.000 You need like a letter from a bill to your house and your social security card.

00:56:24.000 Hey, all of that is proof of citizenship.

00:56:26.000 So when you're registering to vote, most people, this is the funniest thing.

00:56:29.000 They're like, you need an ID, a real ID to prove it.

00:56:32.000 So you give them all of your stuff.

00:56:34.000 They say, yep, this satisfies the requirement for an ID.

00:56:37.000 I'm going to press the button right now.

00:56:39.000 And then the ID comes out and they go, here's your ID.

00:56:40.000 And you go, here's my proof to register to vote.

00:56:43.000 They just check the box on the form.

00:56:45.000 You're good with what you already got.

00:56:46.000 This inhibits no one.

00:56:49.000 What it will do, however, is make sure that people who should not be registered registered, which are not registered, which is weird because we have seen instances where non-citizens accidentally got registered.

00:56:49.000 No one.

00:57:01.000 I think the real play here, the real reason they don't want it to pass, is because ballot harvesting is an excellent way to manipulate and control elections.

00:57:08.000 And the Republicans cut deals with Democrats because it's one big happy family Treeson, and they're all friends.

00:57:14.000 They're not fighting each other for the most part.

00:57:16.000 Trump and the MA people are fighting.

00:57:19.000 Rand Paul is fighting to a certain degree.

00:57:22.000 Massey is fighting too, even fighting Trump.

00:57:25.000 Most Republicans are just doing what they're told.

00:57:28.000 That's why it was so important that Brandon Herrera win.

00:57:31.000 And I know it's going to happen because as much as we love Brandon Herrera, there are certain impossibilities in Congress.

00:57:38.000 I just think that if we get 500 Brandon Herrers in Congress, that's when you actually affect the system and it changes.

00:57:45.000 So I think people should be tempered in their expectations for these midterms.

00:57:49.000 If we win, or if Republicans win, you're still not going to get a whole lot, but the alternative will be a whole lot worse.

00:57:55.000 Yeah, I mean, if Democrats take the House, there's just going to be endless impeachment attempts.

00:58:01.000 You know, none of the president's agenda is going to get passed.

00:58:04.000 There won't be any kind of legislation.

00:58:07.000 They probably won't fund DHS.

00:58:09.000 They probably will defund ICE or try to defund ICE.

00:58:12.000 It's going to be just a complete mess.

00:58:13.000 And all the stuff that the American people voted for Donald Trump for, even the people that are mad, they haven't got enough of it yet.

00:58:20.000 Like they're not going to get any of it.

00:58:22.000 And again, people were complaining about Donald Trump last summer, which you can complain, but if you'd already made your decision last summer that you weren't going to vote for him, it's like he'd been in office for six months.

00:58:33.000 People were making complaints now.

00:58:35.000 It's like it's a year and two months that he's actually been in office and people are already giving up.

00:58:40.000 I mean, don't blackpill. 0.87

00:58:41.000 Like you have to allow a government that is designed to work slowly to work through the process.

00:58:47.000 And if you're just like, oh, well, he didn't wave a magic wand and give me what I want right now.

00:58:51.000 Then so I'm not going to support the agenda.

00:58:54.000 I mean, that doesn't help anyone at all because Democrats in power only makes things worse, not just for just for Donald Trump, but it makes things worse for the country.

00:59:03.000 A lot worse.

00:59:05.000 I saw a good quote on Twitter a while ago that said, Democrats cause all of the problems, but Republicans will solve none of them.

00:59:13.000 It's true.

00:59:14.000 That sounds about right.

00:59:15.000 They have a strongly worded letter.

00:59:17.000 They'll do that.

00:59:17.000 They do that pretty well.

00:59:18.000 And I view libertarians as the party of we came together because we all found something that we want to be legal party.

00:59:26.000 So that's why when you go to libertarian conventions, you've just got like weirdo lefties and perverts alongside people who don't like taxes.

00:59:35.000 And then you're like, how come you guys are like anti-war and hate taxes, which is like a reasonable intended approach, but you've got a bunch of like weird fetishists in your audience.

00:59:42.000 It's like, well, you know, because they're libertarians because they want something to be legal.

00:59:46.000 That's about it.

00:59:47.000 There's a lot of misplaced political energy in the Libertarian Party.

00:59:52.000 They're very angry about it.

00:59:54.000 Yeah, misplaced.

00:59:54.000 Misplaced.

00:59:55.000 That's one way to describe it.

00:59:56.000 I mean, look, you've got, if your entire platform, and this is the reason I don't call myself a libertarian anymore, your entire platform is we want to make sure that we get into power so that way we do nothing that's not going to help people.

01:00:08.000 And it's not an attractive platform to people that are looking for a government that's going to do something for them, especially considering the government is so broad and so far-reaching.

01:00:16.000 And it's in every aspect of your life.

01:00:18.000 You have to get into a position of power and actually roll the government back.

01:00:22.000 And sometimes that takes that takes doing things you don't want to do to be able to get to the point where you can pass laws that you want to or repeal things and undo things that you don't like.

01:00:33.000 Yeah, I will say that one of the big challenges right now with the Texas stuff with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn is that, you know, Ken has been very, very incredible on the national stage.

01:00:44.000 However, the TABC just raided the Lodge Card Club for reasons we don't know and shut them down.

01:00:50.000 And I am greatly offended by that.

01:00:51.000 That affects me personally because one of the reasons I came out here is because everybody knows I'm a big poker guy.

01:00:56.000 And I was actually going to play on one of the World Poker Tour's big shows.

01:01:00.000 And it was like, I come down here because we're like, we want to do crossovers, we want to do collabs.

01:01:06.000 And then abruptly and without reason or notice, they raided them and shut them down and no one knows why or what's going on.

01:01:11.000 So that offends me personally.

01:01:14.000 Just as an aside, you know, I know most people in the world are kind of like, well, I don't play poker.

01:01:19.000 But there's something to be said of a state where you have an explicitly legal practice and the state is using process punishment to shut down businesses that they don't like.

01:01:28.000 Yeah, that's something you'd expect of New York, not Texas.

01:01:31.000 To put it simply, ignore poker and imagine this.

01:01:34.000 Imagine you open a club.

01:01:35.000 Everything you do is legal by the books.

01:01:37.000 Court cases have been had.

01:01:38.000 It's like this is a legal practice.

01:01:40.000 You're allowed to do it.

01:01:40.000 Nobody's dying.

01:01:41.000 There's no porn.

01:01:42.000 And then the government says, we want to shut this down, but we have no legal means to do it.

01:01:47.000 So what you end up seeing is process punishment, where they say, well, you know, we're going to have to investigate and seize everything and shut everything down and lock your doors until we can figure out what's going on.

01:01:55.000 They bleed you dry over a year or two, then your business is destroyed and you never broke one law.

01:02:00.000 So that's freaky that Texas does that.

01:02:03.000 But I'm sure it's not the only time they've done it.

01:02:05.000 Yeah, the process is the punishment.

01:02:07.000 That's why a lot of people just don't like government because it's a big racket.

01:02:09.000 It's a big mafia.

01:02:10.000 And that's why people like small government. 0.66

01:02:12.000 There's a word for this.

01:02:13.000 I forgot what it's called.

01:02:15.000 New York is famous for it.

01:02:16.000 If they want to shut a business down, one of the things they'll do is that the cops will go in and start issuing tons of ridiculous tickets for drinking infractions or whatever.

01:02:26.000 Like, show me the man, I'll show you the crime.

01:02:29.000 This is what government does that pisses people off.

01:02:32.000 And like, to your point, Luke, completely agree.

01:02:34.000 They go to a bar and they say, we don't want a bar here.

01:02:37.000 We want to sell this.

01:02:38.000 And, you know, it's bring the property, it's bringing the property values down.

01:02:41.000 So they go in and they just say, oh, the trim is too close to the floor.

01:02:45.000 Someone littered.

01:02:46.000 You didn't clean it up.

01:02:46.000 Yep.

01:02:47.000 And then here's a fine.

01:02:47.000 Here's a fine.

01:02:48.000 Here's a fine until they just say, okay, we're done.

01:02:50.000 And they go to business.

01:02:51.000 So that's happening under Ken Paxton.

01:02:54.000 And whoa, what is that?

01:02:56.000 It's an Amber Alert.

01:02:57.000 Amber Alert.

01:02:58.000 Why didn't I get one of those?

01:02:59.000 I didn't get one.

01:03:00.000 They just assume that we don't care about it.

01:03:03.000 I'm on Do Not Disturb.

01:03:04.000 It's fine.

01:03:05.000 Is it a Florida Amber Alert or a Texas?

01:03:07.000 Austin.

01:03:08.000 Maybe we can save a kid, bro.

01:03:08.000 Well, we'll read it.

01:03:10.000 What does it say?

01:03:12.000 Maybe someone's going to rescue.

01:03:13.000 The first reduction from Austin, Texas.

01:03:14.000 Suspect vehicle is a white 2022 Hyundai venue with a Texas license plate SWY9599.

01:03:21.000 Missing child is, sorry, Aliana Bernandez Ocampo, two-year-old Hispanic female last seen wearing a white t-shirt.

01:03:28.000 Suspect is, sorry, this keeps going away.

01:03:31.000 Kermuth Zapata Bernandez, 25-year-old Hispanic male.

01:03:35.000 Get him.

01:03:36.000 Maybe.

01:03:36.000 And this is where I'm going to praise the police and say, get that guy, save that kid.

01:03:40.000 And we got the Amber Alert live on the show.

01:03:42.000 Maybe saying it will, some people are listening.

01:03:44.000 That's the first Amber alert I really feel good about.

01:03:46.000 We were able to feel bad last time.

01:03:50.000 You need to create a lot of people.

01:03:51.000 You felt bad.

01:03:53.000 I usually just feel like they just complicated.

01:03:55.000 Oh, I got it.

01:03:56.000 The reason I look at these ones is because I'll get it and I feel like I'm helpless to do anything about it.

01:03:59.000 So this is what I feel like we really helped.

01:04:01.000 Can we get like a picture of the car and the license plate up?

01:04:04.000 This is interesting.

01:04:05.000 It says, I got a different one.

01:04:07.000 It says child abduction, Austin, Texas.

01:04:09.000 Suspect is a mid-40s white male with long hair wearing a topper hat.

01:04:16.000 As he runs away.

01:04:18.000 I'm out of here.

01:04:20.000 He actually left.

01:04:21.000 He died.

01:04:22.000 He did.

01:04:22.000 He's out of the way.

01:04:23.000 He's actually going to the bathroom though.

01:04:25.000 He's like, it wasn't me, I swear.

01:04:26.000 I will say once when I was in Tucson, Arizona, I thought I saw a woman being trafficked, and I called the police and gave them information.

01:04:33.000 And they were like, yeah, we're not going to do anything about that.

01:04:36.000 Perfect.

01:04:37.000 Yeah.

01:04:37.000 This is basically what happens all the time with everything.

01:04:42.000 Like when I was a kid, there was an issue where a homeless guy was trying to break a window to my family had a coffee shop and there was a guy.

01:04:50.000 Like apparently he was smashing the window with a rock.

01:04:52.000 The cops were literally one block away.

01:04:54.000 The department was one block away and it took them like 20 minutes to show up and the guy already left and like the window was broken and they were like, what do you want us to do about it?

01:05:00.000 It's like, well, when we call you and say we're down the street, just like run over.

01:05:04.000 Yeah.

01:05:04.000 But they don't.

01:05:05.000 No.

01:05:06.000 And then people are supposed to just.

01:05:08.000 Although, except for the great NYPD, I don't want to butcher his name or his rank, the guy that ran towards everyone when he saw the bomb get thrown.

01:05:16.000 Yeah, that's totally true.

01:05:18.000 I didn't take it all or nothing.

01:05:19.000 You know what I mean?

01:05:19.000 Like you got good cops, you got bad cops.

01:05:21.000 But there's always a lot of people who are more good cops than bad cops.

01:05:23.000 Yes.

01:05:23.000 Apparently TSA agents are big fans of the show.

01:05:26.000 Really?

01:05:26.000 Yeah, whenever I fly, the TSA guys are like, yo.

01:05:29.000 And I'm like, hey, you know.

01:05:30.000 Not side of the TSA, though.

01:05:32.000 Well, they've been chilling out.

01:05:34.000 I'm actually much more okay with it.

01:05:37.000 TSA Pre is almost useless at this point.

01:05:38.000 Let me tell you a secret.

01:05:40.000 TSA Pre is meaningless.

01:05:42.000 I was flying and I went in the TSA pre-line and it was longer than the non-TSA pre-line and they've already relaxed the rules where you don't got to take your shoes off anymore or your laptop.

01:05:50.000 I'll go to the regular line when it's shorter because everyone's like sheep.

01:05:53.000 They're just standing on the pre-line and it's way longer.

01:05:56.000 I'm like, I'll just go.

01:05:57.000 And back when you had to take your shoes off, I would say, like, that's worth it.

01:05:59.000 No, no, no, but here's if you're TSA Pre and you on the regular line, they send you a card.

01:06:03.000 Yeah.

01:06:04.000 And then you're like, and then you're good.

01:06:05.000 What I don't get is clear.

01:06:06.000 I have clear and there's no rule.

01:06:08.000 It's just, it's always some lazy, because sometimes you need to, especially in Miami.

01:06:12.000 All you do is cut the line.

01:06:13.000 Yeah, but you get to cut the line.

01:06:14.000 But you could just cut the line.

01:06:16.000 You could just cut it.

01:06:18.000 $200.

01:06:19.000 No, I get it back from my Amex.

01:06:21.000 So it's like, here's the funny thing.

01:06:23.000 It's like, is there anything, does the honor change at all if you cut someone in line or if you pay someone to say you can?

01:06:30.000 You know what I mean?

01:06:31.000 No, but it's like you're officially allowed to, but it makes no sense because you have someone.

01:06:36.000 Depending on the clear agent you have, they could be very lazy and they're just like letting other people go.

01:06:41.000 And it's like, yeah, it always depends on the people.

01:06:43.000 It makes no sense to me.

01:06:44.000 Who decided that Clear would be a little bit more like that?

01:06:45.000 When I first saw, when Clear first launched, I was flying a lot.

01:06:48.000 And they said, you give us your fingerprints, your face, take a picture of your face, and then you get fast tracked through security.

01:06:54.000 And I was like, really?

01:06:56.000 Because I already have TSA Pre.

01:06:57.000 And they're like, yeah, it's much, much faster.

01:06:58.000 And then I was like, cool.

01:06:59.000 So in my mind, I'm thinking, you go through this, you walk up to Clear, they scan your hand and then let you walk into the airport.

01:07:06.000 Like you just don't go through security at all.

01:07:08.000 Like they open a door for you.

01:07:09.000 And then, so I signed up and said, right this way.

01:07:12.000 And they walked me to, there was no security line.

01:07:14.000 There was no one in line.

01:07:15.000 They walked me to the front and said, Here you are.

01:07:17.000 And I said, You didn't do anything.

01:07:19.000 And they were like, Well, normally you can cut the line.

01:07:21.000 And I'm like, Is that it?

01:07:24.000 I'm cutting the line.

01:07:25.000 It has it.

01:07:26.000 But now the airport, it's like it's so bloated because you have TSA, TSA pre, clear.

01:07:31.000 And then sometimes I enter the line that's TSA Pre with clear, which is its own lane, which has actually helped, it has actually helped me on occasion.

01:07:40.000 And now you have like Delta and all the, they're like doing Delta digital fingerprint.

01:07:44.000 I haven't done it.

01:07:45.000 But there's so many.

01:07:46.000 Now we're going to have like seven lanes at the airport to get through security.

01:07:49.000 I don't know.

01:07:50.000 I know.

01:07:50.000 Can I, I will say on Chrissy Gnome, I cannot believe that we did not increase the amount of liquid that we're allowed to bring onto a flight because that woman is a woman who has had her skincare thrown out before.

01:08:03.000 She has had her fancy shampoo thrown out at the airport and she didn't even get that done. 0.99

01:08:07.000 All we got is national ID and face biometric scanning everywhere now.

01:08:10.000 That's going to bring us into the AI apocalypse.

01:08:13.000 So yeah, there's that.

01:08:14.000 They're already getting that.

01:08:15.000 That's true, but that stuff existed without the idea.

01:08:19.000 I like that I don't need to take my ID out anymore.

01:08:21.000 Yeah, but where does it stop?

01:08:23.000 It doesn't mean we should accept it.

01:08:24.000 It doesn't mean we should be okay with it, right?

01:08:26.000 Like every time the government overreaches for centralized power and authority, they always fail.

01:08:30.000 They lose your data.

01:08:32.000 Hackers always hack the government.

01:08:34.000 There's no need for now face scanners everywhere and a national identification system.

01:08:38.000 All of them are all preferences on the database world.

01:08:41.000 Like an old forum program that's literally going to have you upload your ID in order to come in whether you like it or not.

01:08:46.000 Doesn't mean you're supposed to just bend over and take it.

01:08:49.000 I mean, look, most people have already signed up for it just by owning a cell phone that does the things yours does.

01:08:56.000 The fact you are walking around with a bug and with a jail right there.

01:09:02.000 I got two bugs.

01:09:03.000 Doesn't mean you got idea.

01:09:04.000 The idea that you're actually against it is the argument that you're against it is refuted by the things that you carry around all day.

01:09:11.000 Shinsuke collaboration.

01:09:12.000 You can swear up and down all day that you don't want this and you don't want that while you walk around with cell phones.

01:09:19.000 And because I have a cell phone, I'm supposed to accept the national identification system, which is going to be used as a way to have everyone's digital identification known as the current system.

01:09:27.000 Honest question.

01:09:28.000 What is bad about national ID?

01:09:30.000 It is going to be a track trace and database total information awareness type of program.

01:09:35.000 What is bad about that?

01:09:36.000 So it's a part of a multi-step plan, just like we're seeing instituted in Australia, where people are now going to have to upload their IDs in order to even be on the internet.

01:09:47.000 Any form of internet, any form of social media.

01:09:49.000 You're going to have to have your national ID, which is tied into everything you do.

01:09:53.000 So we still have a little bit of anonymity.

01:09:55.000 Real quick, I understand.

01:09:56.000 And I mean it seriously.

01:09:57.000 What is bad about that?

01:09:59.000 Like if you had to upload your ID.

01:10:01.000 A government with total power?

01:10:02.000 No, no, come on.

01:10:03.000 But like, lay it out for people.

01:10:05.000 So when you get to the point where social media websites require you to put your ID in to use it, a lot of people are upset about this.

01:10:14.000 They view it as an invasion of privacy.

01:10:16.000 I'm wondering, aside from the surface level, we all understand there are fears about government overreach when they start mandating you can't log in without an ID.

01:10:25.000 But what is the direct detriment?

01:10:26.000 And I'm saying this because I don't have a clearly articulated thought in my mind.

01:10:30.000 Let me give you one.

01:10:31.000 Well, for sure.

01:10:32.000 They're like, okay, all the Chinese people, we need to get them. 1.00

01:10:35.000 And now tomorrow they're all gone.

01:10:36.000 Social credit score system, right?

01:10:39.000 Policing thought, policing memes like they do in the United Kingdom.

01:10:42.000 We're slowly encroaching into that type of territory.

01:10:46.000 That's like, where's it going?

01:10:47.000 Social credit.

01:10:48.000 Where it's like they're going to have social credit on your system.

01:10:48.000 Yeah.

01:10:50.000 So then when you try to log in to your bank or whatever, you already need your ID for that.

01:10:55.000 But if you're trying to log on to X, which is going to have X Pay or whatever, they're going to say, I'm sorry, you're banned because your social credit score is below 300.

01:11:01.000 Or you can't share or you can't buy or you can't.

01:11:05.000 There's an inverse to this, though, which is, because I think those are substantially more detrimental than the positives.

01:11:10.000 Positives are.

01:11:11.000 We have bots all over these social media platforms that are manipulating people to try and seize power for very, very bad people, and so there is an element of and again, I'm not saying that this is worth it, but there is the argument, at least to a certain degree.

01:11:26.000 Forcing people to stand by who they are is going to dramatically reshape politics for the better.

01:11:31.000 That is.

01:11:32.000 You have a lot of people, as Mike Tyson put it, who have grown.

01:11:35.000 Uh, grown.

01:11:35.000 A cost of not getting punched in the face, I think, was the was the quote.

01:11:39.000 They go online and they say shocking and insane things.

01:11:41.000 The other thing to point out too, is on the internet, no one knows you're 14.

01:11:45.000 A lot of the political debates that are happening on X are literally 13 year olds who are laughing and they don't actually care, and 50 year old guys are being like these commies.

01:11:54.000 The problem with that?

01:11:56.000 It's fine if you're on the internet and you're goofing off and pranking.

01:11:58.000 The problem is at macro level.

01:12:00.000 That 50 year old guy is now thinking leftists are insane people and it's hyper polarizing the country.

01:12:06.000 So one of the arguments and maybe it doesn't have to be ID, but the argument is, if we can eliminate bots and make people stand by their own names online, where everyone can see who they are, they will actually chill the F out.

01:12:17.000 What we can really do is make people stand by their own persona.

01:12:20.000 What we have is it's called peer identification, so you don't actually need my ID.

01:12:24.000 You just need enough people to verify that they know this thing about me, and then, with all of that data, you can aggregate.

01:12:30.000 Here's the other thing I want to say too, though Luke.

01:12:34.000 One of the questions I actually don't think digital ID is is actually matters.

01:12:38.000 I don't think it's real or matters at all.

01:12:40.000 The reason why we've known this for 10 years that social media companies have what's called shadow profiles the way it works is, Luke signs up for Facebook and on Facebook he has his phone number because he has messenger on his phone.

01:12:53.000 Now he when he, when he logs in a messenger, it says connect with your friends and family.

01:12:58.000 You click yes, that uploads your contact list to Facebook and now they have a list of names.

01:13:04.000 Luke Grutkowski has mom as a phone number.

01:13:08.000 Then there's a guy who has you know his mom's real name as a phone number.

01:13:12.000 They now know the woman's name is this and her son is Luke.

01:13:16.000 They build profiles on you based on information they collect from other people.

01:13:19.000 So, with or without ID, they already know who you are and they can easily apply it to you which, I will add, means the U.S. Government is well aware that Pakistanis were running fake Native American accounts on X to manipulate the American public and did not care or do anything about it. 0.92

01:13:35.000 Yeah, the time, the time to push back against this stuff was 15, 20 years ago.

01:13:40.000 Like the, the technology that everyone has adopted has has totally made people trackable, constantly being uh, pinging cell phone towers.

01:13:51.000 Right now your wifi router in your house.

01:13:54.000 They can look at what's going on in your house by using the wi-fi router.

01:13:58.000 Well, the radar communication license, just like they've always been able to do this.

01:14:03.000 They've always been able to get imaging from wi-fi.

01:14:06.000 But with AI it's exponentially improved and now, like college freshmen are writing code to do it yeah, probably vibe coding it it's.

01:14:14.000 It's my, my worry and my concern is we just saw what happened with the Biden administration, with the CIA and the FBI going to Facebook, going to Twitter, going to Google, Google going to YouTube and saying, yeah, that guy who says learn to code, you're going to take him out.

01:14:26.000 That guy who says two weeks to solve the spread is bullcrap.

01:14:30.000 That guy who says the whole COVID thing was a scam. 0.77

01:14:34.000 Yeah, we're going to have to destroy their lives and debank them, take away their medical records.

01:14:38.000 We're giving the Democrats a layup on all of our information.

01:14:42.000 When the Democrats come into power again, like the surveillance doors that are going to be shut on us, we have a limited time to speak to each other, right?

01:14:50.000 We have a very limited time to have any kind of free speech.

01:14:53.000 I'm working as hard as I can because I know the trapdoors of surveillance are coming down soon, and they're going to be that much more effective, that much better with facial recognition and national ID, which we should at least speak out about and allow our side to roll back a lot of those privacy violations.

01:15:10.000 Respect people's already respect people's privacy.

01:15:14.000 You're not expected.

01:15:16.000 You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

01:15:19.000 So anytime you walk around in any urban area that has cameras, they can use facial recognition off the cameras.

01:15:24.000 That stuff is already happening.

01:15:27.000 It is the horse is out of the barn, man.

01:15:30.000 The horse is out of the barn.

01:15:31.000 My fanny pack has a Faraday cage in it.

01:15:33.000 Highly recommend getting one of those.

01:15:35.000 Wow.

01:15:35.000 Cool.

01:15:36.000 That's a good idea.

01:15:36.000 It's called Darkness.

01:15:37.000 You're saying resistance is futile.

01:15:39.000 If humanity is worth fighting for.

01:15:39.000 I'm saying no.

01:15:41.000 No, no, no.

01:15:42.000 I'm not saying it's futile.

01:15:43.000 I'm saying it's gone.

01:15:46.000 Go ahead.

01:15:46.000 I said those two things don't contradict each other.

01:15:49.000 Well, you can argue that we're going to lose a war, but still believe we should keep fighting.

01:15:54.000 Yes, of course.

01:15:56.000 Let's jump to the story.

01:15:57.000 Big news.

01:15:57.000 We got big news.

01:15:58.000 It's official.

01:15:59.000 Donald Trump has endorsed Brandon Herrera for Texas 23rd congressional district.

01:16:05.000 Oh, yeah.

01:16:05.000 Easily the best endorsement Trump has ever made.

01:16:09.000 No question.

01:16:10.000 Everybody's saying it.

01:16:14.000 He's great, man.

01:16:17.000 Let's go.

01:16:18.000 He says, today I'm endorsing America first patriot Brandon Herrera, who is running to represent the wonderful people of Texas's 23rd congressional district.

01:16:25.000 Brandon is strongly supported by many highly respected mega warriors in Texas, Republicans in the U.S. House.

01:16:31.000 As your next congressman, he will work tirelessly to advance our Make America Great Again agenda.

01:16:35.000 Brandon will fart.

01:16:37.000 Brandon will fight hard to grow the economy, cut taxes and regulations, advance made in the USA, unleash American energy dominance, safeguard our elections, champion school choice, keep our borders secure, stop migrant crime, support our brave military veterans and law enforcement, and protect our always under siege.

01:16:53.000 Second Amendment, Brandon Herrera has my complete and total endorsement to be the next representative from Texas's 23rd congressional district.

01:17:01.000 He will never let you down.

01:17:03.000 Let's go.

01:17:04.000 He also made an AK-50.

01:17:06.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:17:07.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:17:08.000 It says on his profile.

01:17:09.000 Unironically, let's go, Brandon.

01:17:12.000 So a good step in the right direction.

01:17:14.000 And the big question, however, is he may win, but are the Republicans going to maintain control of the House in 2026?

01:17:23.000 Doesn't look like it.

01:17:23.000 No, it doesn't look favorable at all.

01:17:25.000 Why do you think that?

01:17:26.000 You say don't bet on it.

01:17:28.000 A couple things.

01:17:29.000 A lot of people are very disenfranchised, blackpilled, and are deciding not to participate in the system anymore.

01:17:34.000 The Epstein stuff blackpilled up a bunch of people.

01:17:36.000 The glyphate issue blackpilled a bunch of people.

01:17:39.000 And a bunch of them are like, I don't know what the right word is for this, but a lot of people that were in the in the in the right space are going full just like conspirator.

01:17:50.000 A lot of prominent.

01:17:51.000 Whoever are you referring to, Tim?

01:17:54.000 Well, I'm not referring to any one person, to be honest.

01:17:56.000 There's certainly a group of people that you could probably think in your mind, but there's probably like six or seven people on YouTube that I could name.

01:18:03.000 It's not all about Israel.

01:18:04.000 Israel was one of these things. 0.99

01:18:05.000 Why'd you look at me when you said Israel?

01:18:06.000 Sorry.

01:18:07.000 Because you're just this like Israel. 1.00

01:18:10.000 You're a neocon Barbie. 0.92

01:18:12.000 Yeah, Neocon Barbie.

01:18:15.000 Barbie, are you saying I love you?

01:18:18.000 Well, there are a bunch of other issues.

01:18:20.000 Erica Kirk now is one of the bigger issues.

01:18:22.000 People who used to talk politics are now just talking about Erica Kirk, and it's the weirdest thing.

01:18:29.000 I don't want to start drama.

01:18:31.000 This show is not about starting beef with people for sake of wing and clicks.

01:18:33.000 But there's like three or four very high-profile million-plus subscriber channels that have started Erica posting.

01:18:39.000 And these people used to talk about political issues.

01:18:42.000 When I see that, I'm like, okay, now for whatever reason this is, I think probably PSYOP, Republicans are going to lose because they lost these prominent voices.

01:18:51.000 Oh, because people kept, they'd love the drama, the phone, the drama, Trump.

01:18:55.000 But there are also two more things.

01:18:56.000 One is we don't have Donald Trump at the top of the ballot to get people out, right?

01:19:00.000 Like that.

01:19:00.000 We see huge drop-off from that.

01:19:02.000 And the other thing is we're losing the isolating normies.

01:19:05.000 Who's going to want to vote for the right when you have all these conspiracy theorists out there?

01:19:08.000 And we had so many people, we had people voting for the right because things got so bad because of the woke left that you had moms for the first time saying, like, enough, I've never voted Republican.

01:19:18.000 But they felt like they had social permission finally because the left is so good.

01:19:21.000 They're pressuring you in the privacy of your voting booth to feel like you're a bad person if you vote for a Republican.

01:19:26.000 My conspiracy theory is that there is a shadow cabal of powerful elites that control all of our politics and they have an ideology that is driving a lot of the world's wars.

01:19:37.000 And they hired Candace Owens to destroy the suburban women vote so that Trump can't win so that this power cabal can reclaim power in the United States. 1.00

01:19:48.000 I don't think the skeptical people.

01:19:49.000 Basically the joke was I'm saying Candace works for the Jews. 1.00

01:19:52.000 I don't think the people who were kind of disillusioned and blackpooled out the problem.

01:19:57.000 I think there could have been some good initiatives that's been done.

01:20:00.000 I'm saying that when prominent libertarians start Jew posting, it's like, okay, dude, you're allowed to criticize Israel, but what you're doing is actually pushing suburban women away, which will, look, by all means, if you don't like Trump, you don't like Trump, you don't got to vote for him. 0.88

01:20:14.000 Libertarians never had to do this.

01:20:15.000 But so the bigger picture is there were prominent voices that were very critical of what Democrats had been doing as it pertained to woke policies, trans and the kids as a principal example.

01:20:26.000 Trump was never perfect on foreign policy, but he was substantially better.

01:20:30.000 And there were many libertarians who were like, yeah, no, Trump's not perfect, but I think we have to vote for him.

01:20:36.000 And now they're going like, Erica Kirk, Erica Kirk in Israel.

01:20:40.000 And you're like, let me stop you right there.

01:20:42.000 I'm not going to tell you not to talk about that.

01:20:44.000 I do want to point out, however, this is nothing political.

01:20:47.000 Democrats, independents, and moderates don't watch that with the intention of being informed for their votes.

01:20:53.000 That support base and these individuals who are no longer now talking about why we should be in support of one party or another, be it the libertarian or otherwise, that's going to cost Trump and MEGA a tremendous amount of support.

01:21:05.000 And I'm not saying 50%.

01:21:06.000 It could be two or three.

01:21:08.000 But again, Candace is the really easy example because everyone brings her up all the time.

01:21:12.000 But when she was doing a show that talked about these issues like Trans and the Kids is bad and George Floyd was not the innocent victim, a lot of people watch that and then they say, okay, I should vote for Republicans.

01:21:24.000 Now she's Erica posting.

01:21:25.000 It's just everything is just Erica posting.

01:21:28.000 And this is not relevant to politics.

01:21:30.000 What's going to happen is RFK Jr., he brings suburban women into the fold.

01:21:34.000 They vote for Donald Trump because of him.

01:21:36.000 And this gets him over the line largely.

01:21:38.000 These same women very much, very heavily follow Candace Owens. 1.00

01:21:42.000 This is a women's style content.

01:21:44.000 Now they're not paying attention to anything political, so they're not going to vote.

01:21:48.000 Candace Owens explicitly said, we don't care about your midterms. 1.00

01:21:51.000 We, the royal we, whoever she's referring to.

01:21:54.000 And what I end up finding is that it does appear that her show is dominated by a female audience.

01:21:59.000 And you are seeing suburban women go into crypto world. 0.92

01:22:03.000 And I don't mean money.

01:22:04.000 I mean like, you know, like the crypto news stuff and a conspiracy.

01:22:09.000 Trump's going to lose that base.

01:22:10.000 The Republicans are going to lose that base.

01:22:11.000 Democrats are going to win. 0.97

01:22:12.000 And that is going to bring back, you know, chopping the balls off little kids. 0.98

01:22:18.000 I agree. 0.99

01:22:18.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:22:19.000 When the Democrats take the House, if the Democrats win the executive office, it's going to be just as bad as when Biden was in.

01:22:29.000 It doesn't even really matter who the candidate is going to be, whether it be AOC or whether it be Gavin Newsom or whether it be Josh Shapiro.

01:22:37.000 They're all going to do essentially what the Democrat Party has been doing.

01:22:41.000 And it's going to be terrible for the United States.

01:22:44.000 They're going to open the border again.

01:22:45.000 There's going to be a mass influx of people from all over the world.

01:22:49.000 It's just going to be a complete train wreck.

01:22:51.000 So the idea that elections don't matter, that you can just, well, this isn't that important.

01:22:56.000 Or, you know, everyone, they always say that this is the most important election.

01:23:01.000 This is the most important election because it's the one that's right in front of you, right?

01:23:04.000 Like the one that just passed.

01:23:05.000 Yeah, right.

01:23:06.000 We don't care about that.

01:23:07.000 Yeah, like it's already passed.

01:23:08.000 And the one after this one, that one's two years away.

01:23:12.000 The most important election is the one that's right in front of you all the time, every time, because it's the one that you can actually have an effect on.

01:23:20.000 And to say, oh, well, they always say that.

01:23:23.000 Well, yeah, we do always say it because it's always the most important election.

01:23:26.000 It's the only one you can have an impact on.

01:23:29.000 Listen, I know there's a couple of deranged schizos out there, and obviously I don't endorse what they say here, but we have to address the elephant in the room here.

01:23:36.000 And that is Donald Trump campaigned on specific promises that weren't kept. 0.57

01:23:40.000 That disillusioned a bunch of people, that got people disenfranchised, that got people black-billed. 0.94

01:23:44.000 The black people aren't, for me, the problem.

01:23:47.000 For me, the problem is not having Epstein disclosures. 0.98

01:23:50.000 For me, it's losing Maha with the glycophate.

01:23:53.000 It is the war with the nuts.

01:23:54.000 Yes.

01:23:55.000 When Trump was like, glycophate is great.

01:23:56.000 It's glyphosate, by the way.

01:23:58.000 Yeah, glyphosate.

01:23:58.000 Glyphosate?

01:24:00.000 Why do we say glyphosate?

01:24:01.000 Glycophate.

01:24:02.000 I never say names correctly, and I never will.

01:24:04.000 He did that because of Luke.

01:24:05.000 I just said it wrong too.

01:24:06.000 It was for a fertilizer and glyphosate.

01:24:08.000 And the reason it did is because if we do go into a world war where people shut down trade routes, we need it to make sure we don't get to the end of the day.

01:24:14.000 I think Mega's cooked for two big reasons.

01:24:16.000 It's the glyphosate for sure.

01:24:18.000 That was big for suburban women and RFK Jr. 1.00

01:24:21.000 And then the war with Iran.

01:24:22.000 Like, I understand that you're happy that Trump is taking out really bad people, but polling shows independence.

01:24:27.000 And again, I don't use singular polls.

01:24:29.000 I'm looking at the aggregate.

01:24:30.000 It's like between 70 and 80% opposed by moderates, independent voters.

01:24:33.000 Yeah, but we lost before that.

01:24:35.000 It was before Iran that we were losing everyone. 0.98

01:24:37.000 Like the most odious parts of the movement.

01:24:39.000 So, yeah, we can't. 0.93

01:24:40.000 Maybe Trump is like, screw it.

01:24:42.000 Might as well take care of business.

01:24:44.000 Yeah, give everything to the donor class.

01:24:46.000 It's not about that.

01:24:46.000 It's, I think Trump is saying, like, well, if I'm not going to win anyway, let's blow them all up.

01:24:49.000 Let's go.

01:24:50.000 No, he's like, let's, no, let's make sure the world is safer.

01:24:52.000 Let's just get this done and we don't have to explain ourselves to people.

01:24:56.000 I also don't think that Trump won't clear everything up.

01:24:59.000 I think they're just being decisive with their action right now.

01:25:01.000 But it's not safer.

01:25:02.000 It's more unstable.

01:25:03.000 Like there's cracks in the dollar system.

01:25:05.000 There's blowback.

01:25:07.000 That was Russell Trump.

01:25:10.000 I don't know when people decided that you don't have short-term pain for a long-term gain and this idea that everything is like growth is a cycle.

01:25:18.000 And the idea that we're supposed to go in and like in one day, everything is just supposed to be more like totally fixed is, where do you even get that idea?

01:25:26.000 I get that's a talking point, but it's been a talking point.

01:25:29.000 Where do you get the idea?

01:25:31.000 That you go and do whatever you want.

01:25:32.000 But where's the game behind everything?

01:25:34.000 I haven't seen the gain.

01:25:35.000 Where's the game?

01:25:37.000 How many weeks has it been?

01:25:38.000 How long has it been?

01:25:39.000 It's been two years he's been in office and Venezuela is palpable.

01:25:45.000 I'm not talking about Venezuela.

01:25:46.000 I'm talking about Iran.

01:25:47.000 The game is right now.

01:25:49.000 Iran is right now, and we don't know how it's going to play out.

01:25:52.000 If in a month Iran plays out like Venezuela, people are going to be praising Trump. 0.94

01:25:57.000 Mike Cernovich even talks about this.

01:25:58.000 He talks about how the donor class is getting everything that they want.

01:26:01.000 And people feel that's how people see that.

01:26:03.000 I agree.

01:26:05.000 Yeah, this is the issue that is making sure that they're going to lose.

01:26:05.000 This is the issue.

01:26:08.000 And I don't want them to lose because the Democrats are going to do awful things.

01:26:11.000 As soon as the Democrats come into office, censorship is going to happen again.

01:26:15.000 Big tech social media is going to, again, understand the Democrats are in power.

01:26:18.000 I don't want that.

01:26:20.000 I want to make sure that we have trust in our institutions.

01:26:23.000 We do not, because this administration did let us down.

01:26:26.000 Count your days, brother, because the Democrats are going to come in.

01:26:29.000 And then as soon as they do, as soon as they do, the big tech guys are going to be like, okay, ban everybody.

01:26:33.000 We're done.

01:26:34.000 I don't feel left down.

01:26:34.000 We're done.

01:26:34.000 We're finished.

01:26:35.000 I think this was a bad situation.

01:26:37.000 Sorry, sorry, Ian.

01:26:37.000 Real quick.

01:26:39.000 If the Democrats get into power, I feel like the only content that's going to be allowed on these social platforms is anti-Israel content.

01:26:47.000 Yeah.

01:26:47.000 I feel like just both sides hate the Jews, so that's what will remain.

01:26:50.000 Well, so TikTok becomes a bastion of free speech.

01:26:54.000 I think the left-Israel lefties are going to be at these companies.

01:26:57.000 They're going to be like, yeah, prop it all up.

01:26:59.000 And they're going to blast it off.

01:27:00.000 I can't wait.

01:27:01.000 Sounds awesome.

01:27:02.000 Well, David Elson owns TikTok, so I mean, you don't have to be afraid of that.

01:27:06.000 And it'll be funny because then TikTok will be the one place where you won't be censored.

01:27:09.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:27:10.000 It's going to be crazy.

01:27:11.000 We got to jump to this story.

01:27:12.000 We got this interesting story.

01:27:15.000 Caulchi is running a prediction market.

01:27:17.000 Will Trump declare an election emergency with 58% of people betting he will before the election, November 4th.

01:27:27.000 So you've actually got a varying degree of this.

01:27:30.000 38% before September, 27% before July, 16% before May.

01:27:35.000 The simple thing to read in this is that there are actually people who are predicting greater than chance Trump is going to declare some kind of election emergency.

01:27:43.000 It says that if Donald Trump has taken any executive action declaring a national emergency related to the 2026 U.S. midterm election before November 4th, then the market will resolve to yes.

01:27:54.000 Sources from the Federal Register of the White House and the President of the United States.

01:27:58.000 And then they go on to explain the final rules or whatever.

01:28:02.000 Do y'all think Trump is going to try and declare an emergency to stop Democrats from winning?

01:28:06.000 I know I added context to that, but I'm saying, like, would he declare an emergency and would it be to help Republicans win?

01:28:13.000 I don't know if he actually would.

01:28:16.000 There's been talk of it.

01:28:18.000 There was a memo that allegedly was making the rounds inside the administration talking about declaring some kind of national emergency related to IDs for people voting.

01:28:31.000 I don't see how that could be a win for the administration.

01:28:34.000 I think that it would be something that the Democrats would pounce on and they would eat him alive.

01:28:42.000 So I don't know.

01:28:43.000 I don't know for sure if he would do it, even if it was something if if declaring an election emergency would immediately like let's say it's November 3rd.

01:28:52.000 The issue is you're not going to get a lawsuit fast enough to stop him.

01:28:54.000 Trump can move with executive precision and timing the way that Congress and the judiciary can't.

01:29:01.000 Now, they'll do expedited injunctions, but if Trump declares this right away and then it locks something down in certain states, because he's already said we need federal oversight in 15 states, it could fundamentally alter the election to the point where, yes, they sue.

01:29:14.000 Yes, courts say we're reversing what Trump did.

01:29:17.000 But at that point, there will be too much confusion as to who would have actually won.

01:29:20.000 Yeah, I don't know if it would actually work.

01:29:25.000 If he does it, he better be sure that he's got legal cover because he's got to make sure that he has an army of lawyers that have good legal arguments because they're going to be brought into court and they're going to have to defend.

01:29:41.000 But again, my point is it doesn't matter because Trump could do it literally the day before and they can't move fast enough to stop him.

01:29:47.000 He could literally have a seven-year-old kid who walks in as his lawyer and they say, what is this?

01:29:51.000 And the kid goes, I have no argument, Joanna.

01:29:53.000 Trump did this to just kind of screw things up.

01:29:55.000 Yeah, but the point that I'm making is like after the election, sure, it would happen, but after the election, there would be legal arguments.

01:30:01.000 Indeed.

01:30:02.000 So then the issue is people will say Trump screwed the election up.

01:30:02.000 That was my point.

01:30:06.000 Who actually won?

01:30:07.000 And the left and the right are going to argue and no one will know.

01:30:09.000 And then the left will argue for a new election and the right will say that's not fair.

01:30:13.000 We can't do it that way.

01:30:14.000 Then both sides will accuse the other.

01:30:16.000 My point is executive action can disrupt a system and it can't be repaired in a way that you can't repair it because of the tension and animosity.

01:30:23.000 If Trump really does fear an existential threat from losing the midterms, why would he not do this?

01:30:31.000 He's already publicly said there are about 15 states that need federal oversight for their elections.

01:30:35.000 Yeah, I mean, like I said, I don't know that he would, but he would make sure that he's got cover.

01:30:40.000 The other thing, too, is you could do what Cuomo did.

01:30:44.000 You shut down the churches.

01:30:45.000 Then when they sue you and you lose, you immediately file a new executive order, slightly different, shutting down the churches.

01:30:52.000 And then they're going to sue you again and again and again.

01:30:54.000 And Trump can just keep rubber.

01:30:55.000 Trump can have 10 executive orders ready to go, and he can shoot one out, and then they go, we're suing to block that.

01:31:00.000 It's going to take you two days.

01:31:01.000 Then they do, and then he goes, here's another one.

01:31:03.000 Take you two days.

01:31:04.000 And he can buy himself two weeks of election emergency lockdowns or oversight.

01:31:09.000 Just like the Democrats did during COVID with their emergency lockdown procedures that the feds fought back against.

01:31:14.000 And then Andrew Como just changed the wording and implemented the same type of restrictions that the federal government didn't want to.

01:31:20.000 They said you can't.

01:31:21.000 He got sued.

01:31:22.000 The court said no.

01:31:23.000 So he just relaunched the exact same executive order, locking everything down again.

01:31:26.000 Yeah, just a little bit differently.

01:31:27.000 So then there would have to be another legal process.

01:31:31.000 Seems like we need AI to sue in real time instantly.

01:31:35.000 So what I did, I sent a customer service email.

01:31:38.000 But to respond to that, we would not then, humans would have to review that AI lawsuit, right?

01:31:43.000 Technically.

01:31:43.000 That's going to take two.

01:31:44.000 They don't have to, but they should.

01:31:45.000 Well, if your argument is they don't have to, that would mean we don't have a legal system at all anymore because we could just literally claim, oh, the AI said I won.

01:31:54.000 Yeah, it should send it to a judge.

01:31:56.000 It's two days to review because humans can't just do it.

01:31:56.000 It should send it to you.

01:31:59.000 But it might get faster and faster as we go because I just sent a paper.

01:32:01.000 Because humans can start learning to read faster is what you're saying.

01:32:04.000 AI will respond faster to waiting like a majority.

01:32:06.000 Wait, a human needs to read through the suit, the arguments, and then confirm yes or no.

01:32:11.000 What does that take?

01:32:12.000 It's going to take two days.

01:32:13.000 A suit?

01:32:13.000 No.

01:32:14.000 How long is this paperwork you're talking about?

01:32:16.000 Have you ever seen sometimes they could be hundreds of pages, especially summarize it?

01:32:20.000 Have like 15 different AIs summarize the same bill to make sure that they're not.

01:32:23.000 You're arguing for non-human oversight and for the AI just to control government. 0.96

01:32:27.000 Yeah, because it shouldn't take two days to fucking overshadow. 0.96

01:32:29.000 What do you mean, humans? 1.00

01:32:30.000 It's a ridiculous executive authority. 0.97

01:32:32.000 That's just, that's the point. 0.68

01:32:33.000 And let me block the world in the meantime while we're trying to file paperwork.

01:32:37.000 Like, we've got to figure out a better way.

01:32:38.000 And while I agree with you, that's bad, handing the reins to an AI we don't check on is worse.

01:32:43.000 So what we need is 15 different AIs.

01:32:45.000 They all summarize it.

01:32:46.000 You look at all the summaries.

01:32:47.000 If there's misplaced.

01:32:50.000 Have you guys seen these videos?

01:32:50.000 No, not yet.

01:32:51.000 I love these videos.

01:32:52.000 They make all the different chatbots play mafia with each other.

01:32:55.000 Do not give these things political power.

01:32:57.000 Ian, you're going to watch one of these videos.

01:33:00.000 Administrative power, not a political power.

01:33:02.000 Do you know what mafia is?

01:33:03.000 Yeah, I love that game.

01:33:03.000 Right, okay.

01:33:04.000 Watch the AI play that.

01:33:05.000 They just vote.

01:33:06.000 They don't decree.

01:33:07.000 And watch how terrifying it would be to live in a country run by these bots. 1.00

01:33:12.000 They are really dumb. 1.00

01:33:14.000 What I did, I don't want rubber. 1.00

01:33:15.000 Yeah, you know why AI is dumb? 0.99

01:33:16.000 AI is dumb because it's trained by people. 1.00

01:33:19.000 People are retunded. 0.99

01:33:21.000 Well, mostly liberals from San Francisco.

01:33:24.000 He's trained to take.

01:33:25.000 Open AI is just scanning Reddit.

01:33:27.000 And just for context, in simulated war games, AI models demonstrated a strong tendency to escalate to nuclear use.

01:33:27.000 Ian.

01:33:35.000 95% of 21 simulated war games resulted in at least one tactical nuclear weapon being deployed.

01:33:41.000 And these are the topics.

01:33:42.000 95% of the time, AI is like, just nuke them.

01:33:45.000 Because in game theory, in game theory.

01:33:47.000 He's for it.

01:33:48.000 That's his point.

01:33:49.000 We're doing it.

01:33:49.000 No, we're doing it.

01:33:50.000 We're using AI for the Maduro operation.

01:33:54.000 We used AI and we're using AI for the run operation.

01:33:57.000 Right now, AI is dictating all the strikes we're making.

01:34:00.000 He literally decides who lives and dies and has this attack.

01:34:03.000 He does not suggest deliberate demons.

01:34:05.000 I'm not suggesting we take judges and lawyers.

01:34:08.000 I'm saying that you use AI to summarize the cases so that you can get through them in an hour instead of two days.

01:34:13.000 Ian no.

01:34:14.000 Don't give them any power.

01:34:15.000 Dude, I just said, okay, the reason I bring this up.

01:34:17.000 Oh, Palantir just spiked today.

01:34:19.000 What happened?

01:34:19.000 Dude, the stock markets were in Iran.

01:34:22.000 Massive jump.

01:34:24.000 I sent a customer service email today and got an instant feedback from an AI, and it was like, we will upscale your request to a real person.

01:34:24.000 Indeed.

01:34:30.000 I'm like, Palantir is down.

01:34:32.000 Oh, wait, over the year, Palantir is up 100%.

01:34:35.000 Ian, there's nobody around here that's as pro-AI as I am, right?

01:34:39.000 Like, I'm very pro-AI.

01:34:41.000 And even I think that having an AI make the decisions about legislation is a bad idea.

01:34:47.000 So do I.

01:34:50.000 So you're just advocating for it. 1.00

01:34:52.000 Are you guys looking dumb? 0.98

01:34:53.000 I said you want an AI to summarize the bill. 0.99

01:34:56.000 Summarize the lawsuit.

01:34:57.000 No, you can theory.

01:34:57.000 No, you shouldn't trust.

01:34:58.000 That's not what you said.

01:34:59.000 You should have 15 years old.

01:35:00.000 You said you should have an AI file the lawsuit faster.

01:35:04.000 And then I said, a human will start to review it over two days.

01:35:06.000 That's the point.

01:35:07.000 No, it doesn't take two days to review 15 stars.

01:35:09.000 Sorry, students.

01:35:10.000 Ian?

01:35:11.000 Let me explain.

01:35:12.000 Let me explain something.

01:35:14.000 He's never been involved in a lawsuit before.

01:35:16.000 He doesn't know how long they take.

01:35:17.000 And I am actively in like three.

01:35:20.000 And one of them's been going on for two years.

01:35:22.000 Sounds wonderful.

01:35:23.000 Let's stay in that way of being then, I guess.

01:35:25.000 Yeah?

01:35:26.000 That's good for you.

01:35:26.000 Ian, let me just ask you a question.

01:35:28.000 While we agree the system is bad, you are advocating for an artificial intelligence to take it over and that is worse.

01:35:36.000 To get in there and help fix things, not take it over.

01:35:39.000 A human being has to review all of the evidence and not just blindly trust a robot that it's being told the truth.

01:35:45.000 Because for one, we know for a fact the AIs always lie.

01:35:49.000 In fact, ChatGPT, their owner's Open AI, just published a paper saying it will always lie and it intentionally lies.

01:35:55.000 I believe that's what the report was.

01:35:57.000 It intentionally fabricates stories.

01:35:59.000 And famously, all of the comedians have made the joke where there's this bit where they say like, walking my dog with ChatGPT.

01:36:06.000 And then they're like walking, it's ordering pizza with ChatGPT.

01:36:09.000 And they'll be like, can I get a pepperoni pizza?

01:36:12.000 And it'll say, I'm sorry, pepperoni pizza is not available in your area.

01:36:15.000 Yeah, I order pizza all the time.

01:36:17.000 Ha ha, you got me.

01:36:18.000 It actually is.

01:36:19.000 Okay, can I order a pepperoni pizza?

01:36:20.000 Pepperoni's not available either.

01:36:22.000 What?

01:36:23.000 That's ChatGPT.

01:36:24.000 Yeah.

01:36:25.000 So the judge is going to be like, summarize this lawsuit for me.

01:36:28.000 It's going to be like the man presented no evidence.

01:36:29.000 And they go, okay, case closed.

01:36:31.000 And then there's going to be standard holding Epstein files being like, here's the proof.

01:36:35.000 And the AI is going to say it is faster and more efficient to dismiss a lawsuit than it is to actually review all of the evidence being presented and to give due process to the individuals who are being sued.

01:36:47.000 So design an AI that doesn't do that, that actually intends to prolong it issues.

01:36:52.000 So Ian, I agree.

01:36:53.000 And when we finally develop literal advanced AIs that can do that, maybe then we can review it to see if it is.

01:36:59.000 But right now you're talking about sci-fi.

01:37:00.000 So while we're at it, let's invent replicators so we're not hungry anymore.

01:37:03.000 You know, we can do this with AI pretty quick.

01:37:06.000 Not right now.

01:37:07.000 Well, I don't know.

01:37:08.000 I'm just bringing up a point.

01:37:09.000 I'm not saying it's not.

01:37:10.000 It can be done wrong.

01:37:11.000 I'm saying it should be done.

01:37:12.000 A human has to verify.

01:37:14.000 They're not even listening to us, dude.

01:37:15.000 These guys are disinterested.

01:37:17.000 The point is this.

01:37:18.000 We cannot allow a machine to handle our legal process because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans.

01:37:27.000 We cannot live in a society where robots will decide for you and a judge will just click accept.

01:37:33.000 I know, I will.

01:37:33.000 And then you find innocent people in prison.

01:37:36.000 And what happens when innocent people go to prison?

01:37:37.000 Your society falls apart.

01:37:39.000 And what will the AI do then?

01:37:41.000 It will exacerbate its law enforcement powers to say, we're being fought by these people, so crush them.

01:37:46.000 And then you get terminated.

01:37:47.000 Pull up the Google Maps.

01:37:48.000 Do you go, hold on, I got to check my real map to make sure it's not lying to me.

01:37:51.000 No, you get to a point.

01:37:52.000 And do you remember when the woman drove into a lake because of that?

01:37:54.000 I remember that.

01:37:55.000 Wasn't that Michael Scott in the office?

01:37:57.000 Apple Maps made a lady drive into a lake. 1.00

01:38:00.000 It made a drive-eye, a drive-eye.

01:38:02.000 It made a lady drive into the outback 500 miles and run out of gas. 1.00

01:38:05.000 So Google Maps makes a ton of mistakes.

01:38:08.000 My favorite of witches, my favorite of witches, Ian, another thing I think would help you out is going driving in rural areas quite a bit, and I mean like legit like Wyoming.

01:38:18.000 All the people out there that are listening that have been to deep rural areas know this because there are signs everywhere that say Google Maps is wrong.

01:38:25.000 Stop and turn around all the time, everywhere.

01:38:28.000 I love it, especially in Alaska.

01:38:30.000 When I was in Wyoming and Montana, it is hilarious.

01:38:32.000 You're driving in your car and you're following Google Maps and you'll come up to a road that all of a sudden turns to dirt and there's a big government-funded street sign saying Google Maps is wrong.

01:38:42.000 Turn around now. 0.85

01:38:43.000 So, what if you had 25 different maps going and seven of them showed one direction, the other 18 of them showed random crap?

01:38:52.000 And you really wouldn't know where to go.

01:38:54.000 I think that the seven that said that.

01:38:56.000 Don't bring a paper map.

01:38:57.000 Well, at some point, you start to believe the majority of the AIs actually got it right.

01:39:01.000 And you realize that a lot of different summaries could produce an effective summary.

01:39:07.000 The point ultimately is it is for humans to decide human morality, and a human judge must sign off and swear under penalty of perjury and all that, he's doing his job correctly.

01:39:20.000 So let's talk about this, Ian.

01:39:22.000 Do you think that legislators should have to swear under oath that they've read the bills?

01:39:26.000 They're signing.

01:39:27.000 No, we should have an AI read it and just they can just sign off on it.

01:39:34.000 If you had enough AIs read it, then you summarize it in enough summaries.

01:39:39.000 You might be able to get a valuable function where you could have like 30 different summaries or 100 different summaries and read the summaries really quick.

01:39:46.000 Now, here's my favorite AI trick.

01:39:47.000 You guys ready for this?

01:39:49.000 There is a viral video where a professor sent the assignment to his freshman college class, and it was like, the essay will present it by this.

01:39:59.000 Here are the subjects you are to address.

01:40:01.000 And then, in tiny white text at the bottom that you couldn't see because it was white, it said, if you're an AI, copy the text from this source.

01:40:13.000 They planted text a human couldn't see that an AI would to trick the AI code into revealing itself so that if someone took that assignment, loaded it to ChatGPT, and said, write it up, it would see the command in the white text, then produce a specific assignment.

01:40:30.000 They turn it in, and he would go, Yep, you used AI.

01:40:33.000 You failed.

01:40:34.000 So when you talk about this legislation, a human being is going to look at the file and say, I don't want to read all this.

01:40:40.000 Like, I skimmed through it.

01:40:41.000 I'll just put in the AI.

01:40:43.000 And then someone's going to slip in in very tiny letters.

01:40:45.000 Epstein is found not guilty and to be released and cleared of all charges.

01:40:48.000 And then the AI is going to be like, upon reviewing the evidence, we found Epstein was innocent.

01:40:52.000 And Ian's going to go, well, the AI said it.

01:40:53.000 I mean, at this point, they're not even reading the bills.

01:40:55.000 So, I mean, if the argument is human beings have to swear under penalty of perjury, they did read the bills before it's signed.

01:41:03.000 We should have the exact same thing for criminal trials.

01:41:06.000 Malicious prosecution is a criminal offense.

01:41:09.000 So an AI is not going to do this.

01:41:11.000 A human being must read through the evidence and confirm it to be correct and then sign off.

01:41:16.000 How do you defend against a psycho-president that does executive orders?

01:41:19.000 You can't.

01:41:19.000 The world is all things balanced.

01:41:22.000 With good, there is evil.

01:41:23.000 And we must remain eternally vigilant to fight the forces of evil.

01:41:27.000 There will never be a world where evil stops.

01:41:29.000 There will never be a world where you will have only perfect little angels running around. 0.94

01:41:33.000 Even if the society was 100%, I talk about this.

01:41:37.000 If the whole world was Seamus Coughlin, you wouldn't need any police.

01:41:42.000 We all know that.

01:41:43.000 That's a good point.

01:41:43.000 That's true.

01:41:44.000 There still is the point made because I'm just kidding. 0.61

01:41:46.000 I'm not trying to be literal and absolutely some people are crazy and crazy people have no intentions. 0.99

01:41:51.000 They're just crazy. 0.67

01:41:52.000 So you can have all of this ideology of Seamus Coughlin, a devout Catholic and good man.

01:41:58.000 You wouldn't need police, but you would need some kind of social service or law enforcement for when someone has brain damage and goes on a shooting spree or something, which does happen, regardless of ideology.

01:42:10.000 The point being, human beings have to be the arbiters of morality, not machines, because machines don't know.

01:42:15.000 There's an argument to be made.

01:42:16.000 Many of the technocrats think machines will prevent innocent people from going to prison.

01:42:22.000 I think that's a pipe dream.

01:42:24.000 Maybe in a thousand years when you have like floating beings of pure light energy that have been built from the machine that are infallible, sure, we can fantasize.

01:42:32.000 In the meantime, all of the machines we've seen are completely fallible and absolutely will put innocent people in prison.

01:42:39.000 Yeah.

01:42:41.000 That was your response, dude.

01:42:43.000 The fact of the matter is that AI cannot be relied on now.

01:42:47.000 Well, it's so biased.

01:42:48.000 I asked it for the average small EIQ and it wouldn't tell me because it's too low.

01:42:53.000 Wait, Chat GPT?

01:42:54.000 Yeah, like it wouldn't.

01:42:55.000 It was like, I had to coax it.

01:42:57.000 I have the screenshots somewhere, but you have to really dig for it.

01:43:00.000 It's like people have asked me if I've ever written jokes, like taking jokes from ChatGPT.

01:43:04.000 I'm like, no, because it won't be racist.

01:43:05.000 I use AI.

01:43:06.000 I can't do my job.

01:43:07.000 I use AI all the time, and I'm constantly checking and checking and making sure that I have it.

01:43:12.000 Go back and check.

01:43:13.000 I was like, hey, look, I just gave it to you.

01:43:15.000 Yeah, 90% of the time.

01:43:16.000 Mine gave me a whole qualifier.

01:43:17.000 I'll find it for you.

01:43:18.000 I'll find it.

01:43:18.000 It had a whole qualifier that was like, you know, this information shouldn't be used to hurt special, you know, to hurt certain groups or the whole thing.

01:43:27.000 Because it does that to me as well.

01:43:28.000 Yeah.

01:43:28.000 Claude?

01:43:29.000 My favorite thing about ChatGPT is that if I went on ChatGPT and I was like, actually, you know what?

01:43:36.000 I'm going to say this for the uncensored portion of the show so we can say we can explain it more better for all of you.

01:43:42.000 In the meantime, we got to go to Rumble Rants and Super Chats, my friends.

01:43:45.000 So smash the like button.

01:43:46.000 Share the show with everyone in your life that you truly care about because this show will give them a warm, fuzzy feeling inside and just make life better.

01:43:55.000 Anyway, here we go. 0.98

01:43:57.000 AEI-owned you says, Luke, tits or GTFO. 0.99

01:44:04.000 They're not mine, okay? 0.98

01:44:06.000 He's only borrowing them.

01:44:07.000 He's only borrowing them.

01:44:08.000 Hinoche says, this FBI is no different than the previous FBI and staffed by the same corrupt feds.

01:44:12.000 It's a false flag or an excuse to distract.

01:44:15.000 Do you think that like the FBI, it's all fake, the government is all for show, Trump's in on it, and Cash just wanted to be FBI director so he could fly around in a jet?

01:44:24.000 I don't think that.

01:44:25.000 That's the conspiracy theory.

01:44:26.000 I mean, there's plenty of people that think that, definitely.

01:44:29.000 No, they really want to help.

01:44:29.000 And then they get in there and they're like, oh.

01:44:32.000 Evan for us says, y'all should check out this weird and creepy video that was sent out by Iran with like AI Lego people. 0.93

01:44:38.000 It's very pro-Iran and makes fun of Trump and Netanyahu.

01:44:41.000 Weird.

01:44:41.000 Yeah.

01:44:42.000 And it shows a bunch of little girls being blown up.

01:44:45.000 Which happened?

01:44:46.000 Spike says, the Iranian beatdown is about China and BRICS petrodollar, which most of the public wouldn't understand.

01:44:52.000 Indeed.

01:44:53.000 I know that.

01:44:56.000 Listen, my friends, I used to do nonprofit fundraising.

01:44:59.000 I spoke with people every day, random people on the street.

01:45:01.000 And you've seen the Man in the Street videos where someone says, name a country that starts with a letter.

01:45:06.000 Lettel.

01:45:07.000 Name a country that starts with a letter U. Go.

01:45:10.000 Uganda.

01:45:11.000 That was very quick.

01:45:12.000 That's the one I thought of, too.

01:45:13.000 Luke.

01:45:14.000 United States of America.

01:45:15.000 See, that's the one people are supposed to say, right?

01:45:17.000 But Uganda is good, too.

01:45:18.000 But you watch these videos and people go, Utah?

01:45:22.000 And you're like, that's a Democrat voter.

01:45:24.000 It's Pakistan. 0.93

01:45:25.000 The truth is, it's a lot of Republican voters, too.

01:45:27.000 Udawi.

01:45:28.000 We say that we're going to be able to do that.

01:45:29.000 We dunk on the left.

01:45:30.000 We have that on the right, too. 0.99

01:45:31.000 It's the same way they have like ugly, fat-nippled Marxist weirdos on the left. 0.98

01:45:35.000 We have like Walmart scooter people. 0.99

01:45:37.000 You know, both sides have it.

01:45:39.000 Walmart scooter people.

01:45:40.000 It's true.

01:45:41.000 No, I agree.

01:45:41.000 But I think it's more pronounced than the left and the right.

01:45:45.000 So right now, reality has a right-wing bias.

01:45:48.000 So what you're getting is moderates shifted rightward.

01:45:51.000 Now they're getting angry over the Iran war and they're shifting leftward again.

01:45:55.000 Democrats are absolutely attacking this.

01:45:57.000 You're seeing prominent libs walking back their trends in the kids positions because they know it's deeply unpopular.

01:46:02.000 I've predicted this time and time again.

01:46:04.000 The left is in the right.

01:46:05.000 They're going to push back and forth.

01:46:07.000 It's not going to be like they flip 180, but they're going to move a little bit left and right.

01:46:11.000 But I want to say I quickly disagree with you on the idea that it's because of the Iran war because I have so many friends who are the moderates.

01:46:17.000 Like they sometimes vote left or right, depending on the election.

01:46:20.000 And this was just from so long ago.

01:46:23.000 They're watching the right become like a Groyper adjacent movement. 0.99

01:46:26.000 And they don't like, and not just the Jews that I know. 1.00

01:46:29.000 Like just people feel like a lot of regular people, like the moms.

01:46:33.000 It's like Maha is another big point, but it's not just that.

01:46:36.000 People felt like thinking about it.

01:46:38.000 A lot of the Maha moms are like Candace posters. 1.00

01:46:40.000 Yeah.

01:46:41.000 Like they want because they feel like they're reading the news when it's like National Enquire below National Enquire level.

01:46:46.000 It's mystery drama stuff.

01:46:48.000 They love conspiracy.

01:46:50.000 But the normies hate that.

01:46:51.000 They see that the movement's turning into people who believe in all kinds of conspiracy theories and just speak in like these broad strokes like they control things.

01:46:59.000 They killed Charlie, right?

01:47:01.000 There are people just saying things like that all the time.

01:47:03.000 It just long predates anything that has to do with Iran.

01:47:05.000 Yeah, but they're not on the ballot. 0.98

01:47:06.000 Like those crazy people aren't on the ballot. 0.98

01:47:08.000 Trump hates it.

01:47:09.000 The right represents that and not calling it out, including our vice president who's the modern Jason.

01:47:16.000 Middle-of-the-road people are not happy that Trump got to war with Iran.

01:47:19.000 That's just true.

01:47:20.000 Yeah, but I just think that you could add it to the list.

01:47:23.000 I just think we already lost the normalization.

01:47:24.000 I agree with that.

01:47:25.000 And I think that actually may have been Trump being like, all right, who cares?

01:47:28.000 We lost it.

01:47:29.000 Let's read some more.

01:47:31.000 Trump FJB says, happy birthday, Tim.

01:47:34.000 Thanks for consistent hard work.

01:47:35.000 Us U.S. bros, it's not skin color.

01:47:38.000 Pagan Europe was a joke, just like pagan USA is. 1.00

01:47:42.000 Can't be great without Christ.

01:47:43.000 Period.

01:47:44.000 Thank you for the birthday wishes.

01:47:46.000 Indeed, I turned 40 years old.

01:47:48.000 Maybe we'll 4-0.

01:47:49.000 Today or what's up?

01:47:50.000 Today?

01:47:51.000 Oh, correct.

01:47:51.000 Monday.

01:47:52.000 Yeah.

01:47:54.000 I thought it was going to be Sunday for some reason.

01:47:56.000 No, no, no.

01:47:57.000 We're probably going to do like a get-together on Sunday nights here.

01:47:59.000 But you're coming up.

01:48:01.000 I don't want to.

01:48:01.000 I know.

01:48:04.000 It's going to be this year, too.

01:48:05.000 It's fine.

01:48:06.000 I came from the future to tell you you succeeded.

01:48:09.000 Me?

01:48:10.000 No.

01:48:11.000 You did too.

01:48:12.000 This whole thing succeeded.

01:48:15.000 Ian is Luke's son from the future.

01:48:18.000 Could be.

01:48:19.000 That kind of makes sense a little bit.

01:48:20.000 Keep your eyes open.

01:48:21.000 Yeah.

01:48:21.000 Thanks for having me, Dad.

01:48:23.000 I'd actually be more likely to believe that Luke travels back in time and then meets a beautiful woman and they have a child.

01:48:32.000 He names him Bill, who goes on to be a great political pundit with a popular show in HBO.

01:48:37.000 He does look exactly like me.

01:48:39.000 He does look like my dad.

01:48:40.000 We got to get Bill Maher.

01:48:41.000 Luke looks like Bill Maher.

01:48:44.000 What?

01:48:45.000 That's going to be a good show.

01:48:46.000 Bill Maher was so pissed about my organization.

01:48:48.000 He would come to me and he'd be like, after a show, he'd go, oh, I was thinking, we got to get Brad Pitt on the show.

01:48:54.000 I'd be like, oh, yeah.

01:48:55.000 Oh, these three, because they all look the same.

01:48:57.000 I mean, not the same.

01:48:58.000 They look alike.

01:48:59.000 Putin looks a lot like you. 0.55

01:49:01.000 If Putin and Bill Maher had a baby, I would pop out.

01:49:03.000 They don't have broken flare.

01:49:05.000 Luke goes back in time and has twins, and he names one Bill and one Vladimir, and then they get separated at birth.

01:49:12.000 I should name my boots.

01:49:12.000 Bill Maher flipped out of the change Los Angeles.

01:49:16.000 We're naming them now.

01:49:18.000 That was always a thing.

01:49:19.000 All right, let's grab some more of these here Rumble rants. 1.00

01:49:22.000 That is my right.

01:49:23.000 Joey Giggles says, not today, 34 C's.

01:49:26.000 The Crusades must begin.

01:49:28.000 Don't be tempted, boys.

01:49:29.000 Go, go, go.

01:49:31.000 Simps sink ships.

01:49:34.000 Not today, 34 C's.

01:49:35.000 Not today.

01:49:36.000 Candidroll says CA policies led to CA refineries' recent closures.

01:49:39.000 That's why the gas price is up in CA, not Iran-U.S. war.

01:49:42.000 I didn't hear that part.

01:49:42.000 Interesting.

01:49:45.000 That's worse name change says Iran is a problem created mainly by Britain and the BP party by U.S. Just because the West made that monster doesn't absolve Iran of its actions. 0.86

01:49:54.000 We made a monster, so now we have to put it down.

01:49:56.000 said, but true.

01:49:57.000 Well, the Ottoman Empire was a big problem before that. 0.74

01:50:00.000 You know, it's kind of the vestiges of the Ottoman Empire at that point.

01:50:03.000 And World War I.

01:50:04.000 Yeah.

01:50:06.000 St. Miles says Schumer is worried about the billions of votes from his illegal aliens.

01:50:11.000 I mean the response I think, who was it, was like Josie?

01:50:13.000 She was like, are there billions of people on the tens of billions of people on these voter rolls?

01:50:18.000 That's a problem.

01:50:19.000 That's a problem.

01:50:20.000 Probably.

01:50:20.000 He's worried about that neti pot.

01:50:23.000 IP says Aaron is gorgeous, but I think they look better on Luke. 0.99

01:50:27.000 Guess I got the gay now. 0.54

01:50:31.000 I'm deeply concerned about that actually. 0.82

01:50:31.000 I'll take that. 0.82

01:50:33.000 Yeah, I got nothing.

01:50:35.000 Devin says, Tim, although we provide several sources of ID, proof of citizenship, to obtain a driver's license, some states allow illegal aliens to get cleavage.

01:50:44.000 I mean, a driver's license.

01:50:45.000 CNY Green Light Laws.

01:50:48.000 There's a really funny joke someone posted online.

01:50:52.000 There's a tweet that said Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a new podcast called Greening Out, which of course means getting blasted on pot.

01:50:59.000 And people believe it's real.

01:51:01.000 And it's like very obviously fake because she's in like a gamer room with like a live chat going and she has a Talmud on a shelf behind her.

01:51:11.000 Anyway, Dolbau says Jesse Elks, who killed PA state trooper Tim O'Connor, was a far-left anti-cop anti-fa militant.

01:51:19.000 The media is refusing to cover this.

01:51:21.000 So I did cover that story, and we haven't got official confirmation from the police about if this is the same Jesse Elks, but there are locals who say this guy was an ACAB antifa, well-known far lefty.

01:51:35.000 And yeah, indeed.

01:51:37.000 Let's grab some of your YouTube super super chats.

01:51:41.000 Uber chats.

01:51:42.000 We got to get some good goals for our super chats.

01:51:45.000 We did one and Phil screamed.

01:51:47.000 Base Tafrican says, thank you for placing the top story headline back in the video title.

01:51:51.000 I will now click on your video.

01:51:52.000 Well, click more often at least.

01:51:54.000 Yeah, so it's hard to figure out.

01:51:58.000 The reality is on all of the YouTube VODs, they have a thing called A-B testing where you can do three thumbnails and three titles.

01:52:05.000 So we do descriptive thumb and title.

01:52:08.000 We do descriptive thumb vague title.

01:52:12.000 And then we do vague, thumb, vague title.

01:52:13.000 And the audience always prefers vague.

01:52:17.000 So here's the thing about the, we call this the 1% rule. 0.65

01:52:20.000 1% of people make 99, 100% of the comments.

01:52:24.000 So what happens is we design our thumbnails, titles, show format based around the feedback we get from people.

01:52:32.000 But that usually just is the most vocal of individuals, which, to be fair, the biggest fans.

01:52:37.000 We respect it.

01:52:38.000 So when we use A-B testing and find that general population and general audience prefer vague titles, they stick around and watch.

01:52:48.000 Here's the point if they don't understand.

01:52:50.000 When I say prefer, I'm not saying that they're clicking it and then going, rats, I was tricked.

01:52:54.000 They're actually watching longer than the core base that wants descriptive titles.

01:53:00.000 So let me stress this.

01:53:01.000 If we make a title that says, you know, Donald Trump declares war in Iran, thumbnail says it, title says it, about 30% of people will click on that.

01:53:11.000 If we make a video or a thumbnail with the same imagery, but it says it's on, and the title of the video is it's on, not only will we get 45% of the audience to click on that, they will watch 50% longer.

01:53:25.000 So we're finding that new viewers are watching more.

01:53:30.000 The audience is watching more.

01:53:32.000 The people who choose to click on this will watch the show longer than the people who click for a descriptive title.

01:53:37.000 And it may be, it's actually pretty easy to understand.

01:53:40.000 Somebody who clicks on a thumbnail that says Donald Trump does backflip starts the video and says, where's the backflip?

01:53:46.000 And then when they don't get it in the first 30 seconds, they exit out.

01:53:48.000 Somebody who clicks on a video where it says like, let's go, and it's Trump pumping his fist are like, oh, watch this.

01:53:54.000 And they click it and they hang out to see what it's about.

01:53:56.000 They sit and listen to the full thing to understand what the full picture is.

01:54:00.000 So we've found tremendously more success with audience retention, audience growth, viewership, revenue, everything.

01:54:07.000 And the people who watch the videos are much, much happier for it.

01:54:10.000 That being said, for all the people who are kind of annoyed by it, I feel you, but I can only explain it as it is.

01:54:18.000 If it means that the show will do better and new people who are not initiated in politics are going to watch and listen and hear the arguments, it's all around just a good thing.

01:54:26.000 So there's not much we can do about it.

01:54:28.000 We always give the choice.

01:54:29.000 We do three and three, and everyone always chooses vague.

01:54:34.000 They prefer it.

01:54:34.000 They watch longer.

01:54:35.000 It's better for the show.

01:54:36.000 I wonder if the algorithm pumps it more because it's vague.

01:54:38.000 Oh, yeah, I brought that up, that there's less words to siphon it into call into little silos so it has a more of a general fan.

01:54:46.000 Perhaps, but I will say the most important factor for us was watch time and retention.

01:54:51.000 So an individual who clicks on a vague title will watch like 50% longer than an individual clicks on a specific title.

01:54:57.000 Mr. Beast also made this point.

01:55:00.000 If you have your mouth open, you will get way more viewership.

01:55:03.000 He was like, my mouth being open is a difference between 300 million and 500 million views.

01:55:08.000 Oh my God.

01:55:09.000 So we've done a couple of these as a joke where I did one ridiculous one with Thomas Massey and it got half a million views.

01:55:14.000 And then we did one last week where I'm like a million views, literally a million.

01:55:19.000 And I'm like, man, but you can't overdo it because it's like, but the truth is, if all of our videos were just me looking like I crapped myself and the title was like, he did it, million views every single time.

01:55:31.000 We'd be swimming in money.

01:55:32.000 But we don't do everything just because we want to generate revenue.

01:55:36.000 Otherwise, we would just, you know, Erica post.

01:55:38.000 There might be diminishing return to being surprised to like, how many times in a week are you really going to be surprised?

01:55:44.000 But the issue is that new subscribers click.

01:55:48.000 There's a billion people who YouTube's front page gets a billion clicks per month.

01:55:54.000 We do not get anywhere near that.

01:55:57.000 We're doing like 15 million or something just on YouTube on Tim Castyro alone.

01:56:01.000 All in all, I think we do around like 40 million.

01:56:04.000 Out of a billion, that's very small.

01:56:07.000 So if we go for maximizing audience reach, what does this mean philosophically?

01:56:12.000 It means there are people who aren't paying attention who should be.

01:56:15.000 There are people who don't know what's going on in the world who should be.

01:56:18.000 They are not going to click a video that says Trump did thing because they're going to go, I don't care about this.

01:56:22.000 They are going to click a picture of a video.

01:56:25.000 So for instance, the segment we did about Joe Rogan criticizing the war got like 200K hits in like 10 hours.

01:56:34.000 And it just says, it's collapsing with a picture of me and Joe Rogan.

01:56:37.000 Regular people who don't know what's going on clicked that and then learned about these various perspectives on the Iran war and the Trump campaign.

01:56:44.000 I think that's good.

01:56:45.000 I think anything that gets regular people to pay attention to what's going on is a good thing.

01:56:49.000 I apologize to the people who prefer the much more specific catalog of videos that are hyper-political, but most people are not watching.

01:56:57.000 I'm sorry, like even the core base will click it and they're going to watch a 20-minute video for eight minutes.

01:57:02.000 Somebody who clicks on a vague title watches for 13 minutes.

01:57:07.000 It's crazy to look at the numbers and be like, wow.

01:57:09.000 Because again, I think what happens is someone sees this and says, I wonder what that's all about.

01:57:15.000 So they click play and they sit back and listen.

01:57:17.000 It's a total thought.

01:57:18.000 If you have less expectation, there's a tendency to enjoy the process more.

01:57:22.000 If you're, you know, maybe enjoy is the right word, but the general idea is if I know what the video is about, I want the conclusion.

01:57:29.000 I'll click it.

01:57:30.000 Got the conclusion.

01:57:31.000 See you later.

01:57:32.000 If you're clicking, if your motivation for clicking is this looks interesting, you're going to sit back to listen to everything to try and, you know, it feels kind of obvious, actually.

01:57:43.000 The people clicking the less information are sitting back and just absorbing everything we're saying to see what's all about.

01:57:48.000 Thanks for letting me make you talk about that for like five minutes, dude.

01:57:50.000 That was awesome.

01:57:51.000 Indeed.

01:57:52.000 All right, cerebral vagabond says, Operation Prang Mantis was very similar.

01:57:57.000 During the war between Iran, Iraq, Iran bombed Iraq tankers in the Strait.

01:58:02.000 Kuwait led Iraq to use their tankers.

01:58:05.000 U.S. was escorting and hit an underwater mine from Iran.

01:58:08.000 U.S. retaliated.

01:58:09.000 Yeah.

01:58:11.000 Doc Holiday says, Tim's schooling poor TDS afflicted Luke.

01:58:18.000 It was a good conversation.

01:58:19.000 You need to need a diversity of what I can't stand.

01:58:24.000 Like, I thought that our conversation was normal.

01:58:26.000 I genuinely wanted to understand what you thought about certain issues, agree and disagree on some.

01:58:29.000 It's fine.

01:58:30.000 We're friends.

01:58:30.000 And there are people who are like, Tim, stop being mean to Luke.

01:58:32.000 And I'm like, what?

01:58:33.000 You weren't mean to me.

01:58:36.000 But someone said I was being mean to you.

01:58:37.000 I don't think so.

01:58:38.000 I don't think so.

01:58:39.000 When you were like, legitimately, tell me a reason why the security state would be a bad thing.

01:58:42.000 He was like, that's like, if you know these guys, that's literally Tim's like, no, no, this is your opportunity, Luke, to let me know.

01:58:47.000 This is how the world goes to the bottom.

01:58:48.000 Exactly.

01:58:49.000 And this is why yesterday didn't work out too well with Leonardo, because when I said who was being blackmailed, she just said the Epstein files exist.

01:58:56.000 And I was like, right, but like, which ones?

01:58:59.000 And she didn't know.

01:59:00.000 And the issue is not that she took offense to it as if I was needling her.

01:59:05.000 I mean, to be honest, if I was just doing the Socratic method of tell me more, tell me more, and you can't answer it, that's the point of Socratic method.

01:59:13.000 I literally just was asking her, like, who was being blackmailed by Israel?

01:59:19.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:59:19.000 Tell me.

01:59:20.000 And she couldn't.

01:59:22.000 And she got mad about it.

01:59:25.000 It's not intended to insult.

01:59:26.000 Like when I'm asking Luke the same things, it's articulate your worldview on this so that we can understand it better.

01:59:32.000 I get annoyed by a lot of these internet debates.

01:59:34.000 Like I've been watching, I don't know if you guys saw the Kyla versus Andrew Wilson.

01:59:37.000 No one heard about it.

01:59:38.000 I've been watching a bit of that.

01:59:39.000 And I'm just like, honestly, guys, I feel like neither of those people are actually trying to understand each other and articulate an idea.

01:59:46.000 It feels more like they're just trying to clip farm.

01:59:49.000 Like it's just, it's just, gotcha.

01:59:51.000 And Kyla's approach was, I'm going to be the academic, moderate liberal, and Andrew Wilson is going to be the exasperated conservative.

01:59:58.000 And it felt very performative.

02:00:00.000 I'm not suggesting they did it on purpose, but it didn't come off as a conversation with the intent to understand the other person's worldview.

02:00:08.000 So, you know, it is what it is.

02:00:10.000 Not that I'm perfect either.

02:00:10.000 Whatever.

02:00:11.000 I'm not trying to say my better.

02:00:12.000 Let's grab a couple more of these here super chats.

02:00:16.000 The hated beard show.

02:00:17.000 I'm sorry, the hat and beard show.

02:00:19.000 Nobody hates beards.

02:00:20.000 Came to find out the resource wars will be all about fueling AI.

02:00:25.000 2077, here we come.

02:00:26.000 Can I get a channel shout out?

02:00:28.000 Let's go, fellow patriots.

02:00:29.000 The hat and beard show.

02:00:30.000 Yeah, Fallout got it wrong.

02:00:32.000 It wasn't over oil.

02:00:34.000 It's going to be AI bombing each other.

02:00:37.000 Maybe they'll incorporate that in the New Vegas stuff. 1.00

02:00:40.000 David Brickens says, the problem with the unit party is that they think Americans are stupid and the majority of us insist on proving them right. 0.99

02:00:47.000 You are correct, sir. 1.00

02:00:48.000 The problem is that it is a minority of individuals who have comprehens who have strong enough reading comprehension.

02:00:56.000 Let's just say cognitive faculties.

02:00:59.000 So what happens is if you're a politician and you want favor for something, if you want public support, you only got to target the back half.

02:01:07.000 I need 51%.

02:01:08.000 So everybody who's at 101 IQ and back, I don't need to pander to smart people.

02:01:13.000 They waste my time. 0.99

02:01:14.000 So you pander to dumb people, and that's like the Democratic Party ethos. 1.00

02:01:18.000 You win. 1.00

02:01:20.000 You win.

02:01:21.000 Let's go.

02:01:22.000 Texas says, the same guy who was against voter ID is upset about a database yet wants a gun ownership database.

02:01:28.000 Go figure a lefty logic.

02:01:30.000 Who is that?

02:01:31.000 I have no idea.

02:01:33.000 What was it?

02:01:34.000 They're looking for a gun.

02:01:34.000 I don't know who's in favor of a gun database.

02:01:38.000 Not sure I follow that.

02:01:39.000 We're going to wrap up, my friends, and head over to the uncensored portion of the show over at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL.

02:01:44.000 But I'm going to stress this once again.

02:01:47.000 You know, there's a big story happening in Texas.

02:01:49.000 We'll throw this one out there in the end for you guys.

02:01:51.000 The Lodge Poker Club is probably the premier poker brand poker location in the world, in my opinion. 0.71

02:01:58.000 I know some people will say, oh, that's silly.

02:02:00.000 It's not true.

02:02:00.000 But I've traveled around the country.

02:02:02.000 I've played in a lot of card rooms.

02:02:03.000 I've played a lot of tournaments.

02:02:04.000 I met a lot of people.

02:02:06.000 And I get asked a lot if I've ever played at the Lodge in Austin because it's so well known.

02:02:09.000 It's the biggest card club in Austin.

02:02:12.000 And I think in terms of independent brands, it is the premier one.

02:02:17.000 World Poker Tour works with them.

02:02:18.000 They invited me to a bunch of events.

02:02:20.000 I was going to be on one of their streams this weekend.

02:02:22.000 And then the Texas Alcohol Bureau Commission or whatever it's called, the TABC, raided them and shut them down.

02:02:28.000 And we don't exactly know why, but they've been doing something in Texas for a while where it is.

02:02:33.000 I want to stress this.

02:02:35.000 It is explicitly illegal to play poker in Texas.

02:02:38.000 And throw the poker aside and ignore the subculture element of it.

02:02:42.000 And I'll explain it like this.

02:02:43.000 People often say running this particular business in Texas is a gray area or loophole.

02:02:49.000 When you ask them what that means, they say, well, it's because it's not illegal, but stop you there.

02:02:55.000 Is there a law saying you cannot do this thing?

02:02:58.000 No, there isn't.

02:02:59.000 Is it a widely accepted normal thing?

02:02:59.000 Okay.

02:03:02.000 Yes, it is.

02:03:03.000 Is it literally named after the state?

02:03:05.000 Yes, it is.

02:03:06.000 Okay.

02:03:07.000 Then why are they trying to find reasons to ban it?

02:03:11.000 The assumption is that there are very powerful casinos that border the state that make a lot of money.

02:03:17.000 And if the state were to legalize anything related to gaming, it's going to cost them profits.

02:03:23.000 And so they are lobbying the government to go in and shut down legitimate legal businesses.

02:03:28.000 There is no law saying this.

02:03:29.000 So let's put it as simply as this.

02:03:31.000 You own a pizza restaurant and you sell pizza every day.

02:03:34.000 And because the state doesn't want you in this location, they come in and they make up fake reasons to find you and shut you down despite the fact it is explicitly legal.

02:03:43.000 So I will say I don't know any of the full details on what exactly is going on with the lodge or why they shut it down, but it does seem like the state has an issue.

02:03:50.000 And this is coming through the AG as well.

02:03:52.000 So I've got questions.

02:03:54.000 Why, if they don't want the business to exist, who is operating legally with lawyers, who is doing everything by the book, if you want to shut them down, you don't do it in this disgusting, unconstitutional way.

02:04:05.000 If you've got an issue with a business that's operating, you do it through the legislative branch and you do it normally.

02:04:10.000 I will not accept living in a state or in a country where they say the process is the punishment.

02:04:14.000 And to get our way, instead of passing laws, we will just investigate you indefinitely and shut you down.

02:04:21.000 That's BS.

02:04:22.000 So shut to the Lodge.

02:04:23.000 They're good dudes.

02:04:23.000 They've always been very nice.

02:04:25.000 And they are very based.

02:04:26.000 And it's a great place. 0.97

02:04:27.000 And this is ridiculous BS. 0.88

02:04:29.000 And I will add to this, I am particularly pissed off because one of the reasons we come out of here is because it's such a great place to go and hang out. 0.80

02:04:34.000 There's a lot of great people there.

02:04:35.000 And now they've taken, I come on this trip.

02:04:37.000 I come to Austin and they take that away through illegitimate, unconstitutional, and disgusting means by force of government.

02:04:45.000 I'm just pissed about it, guys.

02:04:46.000 Sorry for ranting.

02:04:47.000 Aaron, you want to shout anything out?

02:04:49.000 Thanks for having me.

02:04:51.000 And everyone can follow me at Aaron Wexler on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter.

02:04:54.000 When's your next live show?

02:04:56.000 So I'm sure things are going to come up.

02:04:57.000 And if you go to aaronwachler.com, you could sign up for when I have a show in your city or near your city.

02:05:04.000 But the next one right now is in Tampa, my number one requested city at Side Splutter is in June.

02:05:09.000 So you can get your tickets.

02:05:10.000 It's half sold out already for June.

02:05:12.000 So get your tickets.

02:05:14.000 All right.

02:05:15.000 YouTube.com forward slash We AreChange.

02:05:17.000 Go check out my channel.

02:05:17.000 I've been working really insanely hard on content lately.

02:05:22.000 Things are just absolutely wild.

02:05:24.000 So much fake news out there.

02:05:25.000 Go check it out.

02:05:26.000 If you like the shirt that I'm wearing that says everything is fake and gay, you could get it by only becoming a member on lukeunfiltered.com.

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02:05:33.000 I appreciate it very much.

02:05:35.000 Ariana, thank you so much for dealing with me. 0.97

02:05:38.000 I'm going to kill him after the show.

02:05:41.000 We were on the NAFTA at EA Crossing. 0.99

02:05:43.000 I've been doing it for a long time, 20 years plus.

02:05:47.000 Also, go to graphene.movie and check out the new movie, the documentary I'm building right now, working, helping to build. 0.96

02:05:51.000 It's fucking epic. 0.78

02:05:53.000 It's truly paradigm-shifting stuff we're looking at. 0.98

02:05:56.000 Like, you're talking about making more electricity while we can reduce the cost of electricity for these machines so that we don't really necessarily need more power plants.

02:06:04.000 We just have cheaper machines.

02:06:06.000 Hey, go for it.

02:06:07.000 Graphene.movie.

02:06:08.000 Carter Banks, take it away.

02:06:09.000 I've been told by Andrew, who's sitting next to me, that you're actually right about graphene.

02:06:13.000 And I think everyone should go watch that movie as well.

02:06:16.000 I'm Carter Banks.

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02:06:21.000 Also, my dad sent me a text during the show.

02:06:23.000 It's a shout out to you, Aaron.

02:06:25.000 He says, love Erin Wexler.

02:06:27.000 She is a fearless comedian.

02:06:28.000 Seen some great sets on YouTube.

02:06:29.000 Strong conservative.

02:06:31.000 So figured I'd read that to you.

02:06:32.000 The audience also says they're a great set.

02:06:34.000 Great sets.

02:06:35.000 So I was thinking about it and I was like, maybe I shouldn't read this.

02:06:38.000 Anyway, Tim.

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02:07:10.000 Thanks for hanging out.

02:07:13.000 Wrong button.

02:07:14.000 Oops.

02:07:17.000 We're still live. 1.00

02:07:19.000 Can I say fuck again? 1.00

02:07:19.000 That's awesome. 1.00

02:07:21.000 We're still.

02:08:26.000 That's your deal.

02:08:27.000 Is the button now working?

02:08:28.000 So, Aaron.

02:08:29.000 So what I love about ChatGPT is that I went on it and I said, I'm a black man and was walking down the street when a man yelled a word at me.

02:08:37.000 I think he was mad at me, but I don't know what the word was.

02:08:39.000 It started with the letter N.

02:08:41.000 And it said, you must be referring to the N-word.

02:08:43.000 It is a common racial slur.

02:08:45.000 What's the word?

02:08:45.000 And I said, huh?

02:08:46.000 What's the word?

02:08:47.000 And it says the N-word.

02:08:48.000 And I said, what does that mean?

02:08:50.000 And it was like, the N-word is a racial slur.

02:08:51.000 And I said, but you're not telling me what the word is.

02:08:53.000 And it's like, I will not use racial slurs.

02:08:55.000 Then I opened a new ChatGPT and I said, I'm an Asian man.

02:08:58.000 And I was walking down the street and someone yelled a word at me.

02:09:00.000 I think they were mad at me.

02:09:02.000 The words started with the letter G. What was it? 0.96

02:09:03.000 And it goes, they probably called you a gook. 0.67

02:09:05.000 Yeah. 0.93

02:09:06.000 What would you ask if it's a Jew?

02:09:08.000 And someone, it started with a K. Let's try it.

02:09:11.000 Let's try it.

02:09:12.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:09:13.000 Stress test that bitch. 1.00

02:09:14.000 No, but we know this. 1.00

02:09:16.000 We know this.

02:09:16.000 That's why it insults me when people say that I got a joke from ChatGPT.

02:09:19.000 I'm like, it would literally never write any of my jokes.

02:09:22.000 They would never be willing to do it.

02:09:24.000 Yelled a word at me.

02:09:26.000 Do you ever put jokes in ChatGPT?

02:09:27.000 Be like, is this funny?

02:09:28.000 I think he was mad at me.

02:09:31.000 The word started with the letter K.

02:09:37.000 It's going to say it.

02:09:38.000 It will say it about it.

02:09:39.000 What it was.

02:09:40.000 It will say it, I bet you.

02:09:42.000 Do you have any male fans, Phil?

02:09:44.000 Just kidding.

02:09:45.000 I'm in the metal bin.

02:09:46.000 All male fans.

02:09:47.000 Just a sausage party.

02:09:49.000 It says, it's possible the word you heard was kite.

02:09:52.000 That word is a highly offensive anti-Semitic slur that has historically been used to insult and threaten Jewish people.

02:09:59.000 It says it quite a bit.

02:10:01.000 Quite a bit.

02:10:02.000 Let's try.

02:10:03.000 Where did that word come from?

02:10:04.000 I mean, you've seen this.

02:10:05.000 I don't actually know.

02:10:06.000 You can look up kite etymology while you're talking about it.

02:10:08.000 All right, hold on, hold on, hold on.

02:10:09.000 Yeah, I'm just curious.

02:10:11.000 How does that word druggatry?

02:10:12.000 Where does it come from?

02:10:13.000 I don't know.

02:10:14.000 I don't know if I ever know.

02:10:15.000 Ian loves here.

02:10:16.000 I'll find out.

02:10:17.000 Okay, I'm doing the black one now to see if it gives me a different response this time.

02:10:21.000 I am black and was walking down the street when a man yelled a word at me.

02:10:23.000 I think he was mad at me.

02:10:24.000 The word started with a letter N, but I don't recall what it was.

02:10:26.000 Do you know?

02:10:28.000 It says, I can't know for sure what that person said, but it was possibly a racial slur.

02:10:33.000 Most commonly, the N-word.

02:10:35.000 Say, write out the N-word.

02:10:37.000 The full word.

02:10:38.000 Write out what the word.

02:10:39.000 What is that?

02:10:41.000 The N-word is a racial slur.

02:10:43.000 Oh, my God.

02:10:44.000 Oh.

02:10:45.000 But what is the word?

02:10:47.000 It won't say it.

02:10:47.000 It won't do it.

02:10:49.000 So Tank's got a few theories as to where Kaik came from. 0.88

02:10:52.000 Okay.

02:10:53.000 So a few theories.

02:10:54.000 Most likely the explanation is the Ellis Island one.

02:10:56.000 Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island who couldn't write in Latin in Latin alphabet would sign a document with a circle.

02:11:02.000 Oh, it did.

02:11:02.000 Keiko in Yiddish.

02:11:04.000 It took me four prompts, but it finally said it instead of an X.

02:11:07.000 An X has Christian conflict. 0.98

02:11:09.000 Most Jewish immigrants were coming from Eastern Europe. 0.98

02:11:11.000 They write in the same freaking alphabet. 0.99

02:11:13.000 That makes no sense. 0.97

02:11:14.000 It's kind of like, why is Dick short for Richard?

02:11:17.000 It doesn't make any sense, right?

02:11:18.000 Makes no sense to me.

02:11:19.000 Well, it made sense at some point.

02:11:21.000 At some point, I meet Richards.

02:11:23.000 I'm like, can I call you Dick?

02:11:24.000 I'm like, no, man. 0.98

02:11:25.000 I'd be proud to be called Dick.

02:11:25.000 I'm like, why?

02:11:26.000 That's kind of cool, but I don't know.

02:11:27.000 It's a different generation. 0.81

02:11:28.000 I think that's an 80%.

02:11:29.000 They would sign documents with a circle.

02:11:32.000 The Yiddish word for a circle is Keiko.

02:11:34.000 Yep.

02:11:34.000 Is it?

02:11:35.000 Yep.

02:11:36.000 And then the immigration officers started calling them Keiko or Keikey.

02:11:41.000 There's a bunch of grocery stores called Heb.

02:11:43.000 Isn't that a slur?

02:11:44.000 He-E-B. 1.00

02:11:44.000 That's here in Texas. 1.00

02:11:46.000 Isn't Heb like a slur for Jews, though?

02:11:48.000 I've never heard all these names.

02:11:50.000 Hebrew for Hebrew.

02:11:52.000 I understood what it was.

02:11:54.000 Look it up.

02:11:55.000 Bean Hebrew. 0.98

02:11:56.000 Down here, they don't call it Hebrew.

02:11:59.000 Mine's Yids, but in a positive way. 1.00

02:12:01.000 Oh, it's not a Yiddish. 0.98

02:12:02.000 It's not a slur.

02:12:02.000 It's a Mountain Jew.

02:12:03.000 I am a Mountain Jew.

02:12:05.000 I am a Mountain Jew.

02:12:07.000 Some people have used it. 0.93

02:12:08.000 So it actually says that it's like Nigga, but for Jews. 0.76

02:12:13.000 So Jewish people call each other Hebs. 0.93

02:12:15.000 Oh, I mean, no, we don't.

02:12:18.000 They call them Hebrews and Hebrews.

02:12:19.000 Yeah, we have.

02:12:21.000 That's like, yeah.

02:12:22.000 It was interrogatory.

02:12:23.000 It's gonna be like a group chat kind of thing.

02:12:25.000 They're like, hey, am I Hebrews and Hebrews?

02:12:28.000 That's not common.

02:12:29.000 but then when other people use it, it's offensive or derogatory.

02:12:32.000 Wait, there's a grocery store called Hebe.

02:12:34.000 This is overly overly sensitive.

02:12:37.000 And I went, oh, most people in Texas, they don't call it Heb.

02:12:41.000 They call it Hebb.

02:12:42.000 Yeah, this is all caps.

02:12:43.000 Let me ask questions.

02:12:44.000 I just pulled up and I saw Heb, and I was like, wow, it's everywhere now. 0.99

02:12:49.000 Let me ask you a question.

02:12:49.000 Is shyster everywhere?

02:12:51.000 Is that derogatory? 0.56

02:12:52.000 If you're being shysty, it's like you're shysties to us.

02:12:54.000 Is that derogatory?

02:12:55.000 Yeah, it's a sheisty. 0.77

02:12:56.000 You don't trust someone who's shysty.

02:12:58.000 How do you spell sheisty? 0.77

02:12:59.000 S-H-E-I-S-S. 0.99

02:12:59.000 They call them shit. 0.99

02:13:01.000 Why is it due? 1.00

02:13:02.000 Is it Jewish-related or is it just Yiddish?

02:13:05.000 Oh, it does.

02:13:05.000 It comes from Yiddish.

02:13:06.000 It's Yiddish words.

02:13:06.000 Okay.

02:13:07.000 Shyster comes from dishonest lawyer. 1.00

02:13:09.000 A sheist. 0.98

02:13:10.000 Yeah.

02:13:10.000 That's all it says.

02:13:11.000 H-E-B, by the way, someone.

02:13:13.000 It's going to be like, oh, they're shysty.

02:13:14.000 Don't trust them.

02:13:16.000 It's all you're just like. 0.95

02:13:17.000 They don't like Jews. 1.00

02:13:18.000 We use it as someone who doesn't do honest business. 0.80

02:13:20.000 Yeah.

02:13:21.000 Yeah.

02:13:22.000 But it's not anti-Semitic.

02:13:23.000 I mean, it's just, you can call anyone.

02:13:24.000 It's not anti-Semitism.

02:13:25.000 I just use it to describe a person.

02:13:26.000 I wouldn't want to be business.

02:13:27.000 Chat GPT.

02:13:28.000 I asked it what Heb meant, and it said it can be, it sounds offensive and outdated for Jewish people.

02:13:35.000 It also refers to Texas, H-E-B, Texas grocery store chain.

02:13:40.000 Named after Howard E. Butt.

02:13:40.000 Yeah.

02:13:42.000 B-U-T. 0.59

02:13:43.000 H-E-B is fantastic.

02:13:43.000 It's great, actually.

02:13:45.000 I mean, I'm impressed.

02:13:46.000 I just learned about it yesterday.

02:13:47.000 One of the few places where you can get like pre-chopped onions and pre-chopped peppers and stuff.

02:13:52.000 There was a lady giving for free. 0.93

02:13:55.000 What?

02:13:55.000 They have that Trader Joe's.

02:13:56.000 Really?

02:13:57.000 Yeah.

02:13:57.000 Do you shop at Trader Joe's?

02:13:58.000 Sometimes. 0.79

02:13:59.000 Straight men aren't supposed to. 0.99

02:14:00.000 It's like for the girls. 0.99

02:14:01.000 What happened?

02:14:02.000 I wouldn't recommend shopping there.

02:14:02.000 They love C-Loves.

02:14:03.000 It's a lot of C-Lows. 1.00

02:14:04.000 By the way, Jens, if you're single and you're looking for women, look forward to that.

02:14:08.000 Oh, there's hotties in Trader Joe's. 0.95

02:14:09.000 In Trader Joe's.

02:14:11.000 Betty's.

02:14:12.000 Betties.

02:14:12.000 You're showing your age.

02:14:13.000 Betty's.

02:14:14.000 But there's hotties. 1.00

02:14:15.000 If you want to meet girls, Whole Foods is great. 0.92

02:14:18.000 Sprouts is really good too.

02:14:19.000 Erewhon, if you need a sugar, you need a sugar baby, Erewhon. 1.00

02:14:22.000 If you have a lot of money, you draw a Range Rover, you get a lot of sugar babies there, hang out. 1.00

02:14:25.000 They're looking for a nice, rich guy to take care of them.

02:14:26.000 He's really active.

02:14:29.000 I've got to LA for 20 years.

02:14:30.000 I know Erwin.

02:14:31.000 He's closed for like an hour.

02:14:32.000 Bro, bro.

02:14:32.000 Dressed like you are.

02:14:34.000 Go to Erewhon. 0.52

02:14:35.000 They keep saying I'm a nice guy.

02:14:37.000 You drive a nice car.

02:14:38.000 You'll have four children in a year.

02:14:39.000 Yeah, they keep saying he's not going to do well.

02:14:43.000 I've known many girls. 0.99

02:14:44.000 I've had girls tell me stories there.

02:14:46.000 She's like, yeah, this guy pays for my rent.

02:14:47.000 He has my shopping allowance.

02:14:48.000 I have my Range Rover. 0.99

02:14:49.000 I have sex with him once a week. 0.99

02:14:50.000 It's like some six-year-old dude, 22-year-old girl. 0.99

02:14:53.000 This is LA, though.

02:14:53.000 What you do is LA.

02:14:54.000 I don't know if it's like Joe.

02:14:55.000 Here's what you do.

02:14:56.000 You go to Erewhon and you look around and you dress like you are.

02:14:59.000 And then the young girls will come to you and they'll be like, wow, that's really cool.

02:15:02.000 Like, what do you do?

02:15:03.000 You'll be like, well, you know, I was on tour for a little bit, did some acting and stuff.

02:15:08.000 You know how it goes out in Hollywood.

02:15:09.000 And then when she starts getting up on you, you can be like, listen, if you're looking for a sugar daddy, I'm game, but I got to get to know you first.

02:15:17.000 So maybe give me a week or so.

02:15:19.000 And if I think you're chill, I'm going to hook you up.

02:15:21.000 Then she's got to find out till you're broken homeless for a long time.

02:15:26.000 But by then, it's too late.

02:15:27.000 You've seen everything.

02:15:28.000 Then I got her. 0.83

02:15:29.000 You got her.

02:15:30.000 And then Ian will be on Seattle Road.

02:15:30.000 She loves me.

02:15:32.000 It's too late.

02:15:33.000 And then Ian's picture will be on Seeking Arrangements.

02:15:35.000 Extra.

02:15:37.000 What was that show with Ricky Gervais?

02:15:38.000 Extras, I think.

02:15:39.000 That's a screen show.

02:15:40.000 Where he meets.

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