Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - GOP To ABOLISH The TSA, Defund NPR & PBS, Already ENDED Education Department w-Sargon | Timcast IRL

00:02:29.000 You know, with everything Donald Trump's been talking about doing, everything he's actually done, this story seems like it may actually happen.

00:02:36.000 So a couple of Republicans in the Senate want to abolish the TSA.

00:02:40.000 They argue that it's been cumbersome post-9-11, etc., etc., and private security would be better.

00:02:46.000 We also heard the GOP is planning to defund NPR and PBS.

00:02:50.000 And I believe it.

00:02:52.000 I believe all of it.

00:02:52.000 I wouldn't be surprised if in six months...

00:02:54.000 Almost every bureaucratic institution has been completely gutted because they already fired most of the people at the Department of Education.

00:03:01.000 And there's very little that Democrats can actually do to stop it because Trump can move faster than the courts.

00:03:08.000 You get all these stories talking about the courts are blocking Trump and Trump's acting all mad about it.

00:03:13.000 But if you actually look at what's getting done, the Republicans are eviscerating the bureaucratic institutions.

00:03:20.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:03:22.000 Then we got some more stories about Teslas getting vandalized.

00:03:25.000 We've got some nasty ones.

00:03:26.000 One guy's on video rubbing dog waste on a cyber truck because people are messed up.

00:03:31.000 And the guy, I think it's the guy who torched Vegas.

00:03:34.000 They caught him.

00:03:35.000 And he's going to go for a very, very long time.

00:03:38.000 So we're going to talk about that.

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00:05:55.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we've got the man himself, Carl Benjamin.

00:05:59.000 Good evening.

00:06:00.000 Welcome back.

00:06:01.000 Thanks so much for having me.

00:06:02.000 Who are you?

00:06:04.000 Oh, I've been around.

00:06:08.000 Indeed. Nothing too controversial in my past, but I've put that all behind me.

00:06:12.000 I'm a good boy now.

00:06:13.000 Look, I'm wearing a suit.

00:06:16.000 I'm just the director of LotusEaters.com and the podcast of LotusEaters.

00:06:21.000 We're causing a lot of waves in Britain at the moment.

00:06:23.000 There have been a lot of really positive articles about us recently.

00:06:27.000 There was an article about me in a magazine called Unheard, which is like a centre-right conservative magazine.

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00:06:37.000 I'm getting loads of Zoomers coming in, like 25, 26-year-olds. 1.00

00:06:41.000 We're hiring these new guys.

00:06:42.000 And all I can hear is Carl Benjamin's words coming out of their mouths.

00:06:46.000 What's going on?

00:06:46.000 Every single one of them.

00:06:47.000 And then in The Spectator, they were like, yeah, so the young men in Britain, they're not...

00:06:53.000 Like, reading, you know, Ayn Rand or Hayek or Friedman or whatever, they're watching Podcasts of the Lotus, reading Bronze Age Pervert, and so we're getting name-dropped in really positive ways by the mainstream conservative magazines.

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00:07:44.000 Right on.

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00:08:24.000 Who are you?

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00:08:37.000 I'm trying to be nice, man.

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00:08:40.000 No, that's not true.

00:08:41.000 And Phil's here.

00:08:42.000 Hello, everybody.

00:08:43.000 My name is Phil Labonte.

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00:08:46.000 I'm an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary.

00:08:48.000 Let's get into it.

00:08:48.000 Let's go!

00:08:49.000 I saw this story and I immediately laughed.

00:08:50.000 I looked at Phil and I was like, we've got to lead with this.

00:08:53.000 Republicans look to abolish the TSA in favor of private security at airports.

00:08:58.000 Senator Mike Lee of Utah is leading a bill alongside Senator Tommy Tuberville.

00:09:02.000 They say, quote, the TSA is not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives.

00:09:11.000 Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end.

00:09:20.000 American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.

00:09:26.000 They know what they're doing.

00:09:27.000 The measure would officially abolish the TSA three years after being enacted into law, which senators believe would provide time for security needs to be privatized.

00:09:36.000 Well, what do you guys do over in the U.K.?

00:09:53.000 It's just done by the government in a way that's similar.

00:09:57.000 Same thing?

00:09:58.000 Yeah. I think it's worse, though, because you can't say naughty words.

00:10:01.000 Yeah, well, there's not normally a reason to swear at airport security.

00:10:06.000 But no, it's just basically the same thing.

00:10:08.000 As a man general in the UK, you can't walk around saying naughty things.

00:10:11.000 You know, it's actually mostly you can in public.

00:10:15.000 The issue is when you put it on any kind of communications network, that's when they get you.

00:10:19.000 What if you close your eyes in front of an abortion clinic?

00:10:21.000 As long as you're not praying inside your head, you're okay.

00:10:25.000 If you're praying inside your head within something like 30 meters of it or something, you're in trouble.

00:10:30.000 So do you just say, like, I'm not?

00:10:32.000 They arrest you anyway, don't they?

00:10:33.000 That's what happens to some lady? 1.00

00:10:34.000 No, no, no, no.

00:10:35.000 They ask them, are you praying in your head?

00:10:37.000 And she says...

00:10:38.000 I might be.

00:10:39.000 And they say, well, you're coming with us.

00:10:41.000 But the thing is, it's Christians, and what they're doing is deliberately kind of flouting non-interference rules that we have for abortion, which obviously I disagree with and think need to go, as well as abortion itself, but there we go. 0.99

00:10:55.000 So yeah, it's pretty bad.

00:10:57.000 That's actually kind of interesting.

00:10:58.000 So you guys in the UK, you've got government security.

00:11:01.000 Do you care?

00:11:03.000 Well, I mean, to be honest with you, It's probably better to have all of the metal detectors and the patting down at the airports because we've got loads of Muslims in the country. 1.00

00:11:16.000 Not trying to be rude, but it's...

00:11:20.000 But it's the extremists that you're concerned about. 0.97

00:11:23.000 Yeah, I know, but the extremists come out of the Muslim community. 0.94

00:11:26.000 And so for every, you know, 100,000 Muslims, you'll have half a dozen extremists or something, right?

00:11:33.000 Right. And it only takes one extremist to blow himself up and kill. 0.99

00:11:35.000 A dozen people, two dozen people.

00:11:37.000 So, I mean, it's the same here.

00:11:39.000 You guys have got a couple of million Muslims in this country.

00:11:41.000 So, like, you're going to want to actually have some sort of airport security because otherwise people will die.

00:11:47.000 Well, that's why they, I mean, look, I know people might not want to hear this, but that's literally what happened.

00:11:52.000 Yeah, I know.

00:11:53.000 It was Islamic terrorists on 9-11, which resulted in the expansion. 0.96

00:11:55.000 That's literally why you've got the TSA.

00:11:56.000 It's pretty funny because I know there's going to be a lot of people who are like, how dare you say that?

00:11:59.000 That's racist.

00:12:00.000 This is what happened.

00:12:00.000 But the first thing I would say is it's a religion.

00:12:03.000 It's an ideology.

00:12:04.000 It's not a race.

00:12:05.000 But that's actually the history of this country.

00:12:08.000 So Carl is actually just saying, yeah, we're doing this because you guys did or we're doing something similar to what you guys did.

00:12:13.000 Well, we've had terror attacks that necessitate it as well.

00:12:16.000 So it's just one of those things where you just have to make...

00:12:20.000 I mean, you've got the Lockerbie bombing and various other ones where you just have to have it.

00:12:26.000 Well, in the UK, are the terror attacks disproportionately Muslim?

00:12:29.000 Yes. I mean, there was the bus attacks in...

00:12:33.000 I forget what the date was, but there was...

00:12:35.000 Was it 06, was it?

00:12:36.000 Yeah. And there was like...

00:12:39.000 There are loads.

00:12:41.000 I mean, the Manchester Arena bombing was probably the worst.

00:12:43.000 Are you allowed to say that in the UK?

00:12:45.000 Yeah, it's factually true.

00:12:47.000 Oh, okay, because I figured you'd get arrested.

00:12:50.000 See, the thing is, the one thing the British government spends all of their time trying to police is negative characterizations of groups, right?

00:13:00.000 So you're not allowed to say, all of this terror attack, all of this terrorism and the grooming gangs that come out of the Muslim community, that's giving me a bad opinion of the Muslim community.

00:13:10.000 You can't say that.

00:13:11.000 As long as you say, no, that was an isolated incident, that was an isolated incident, that grooming gang, not an isolated incident, because there's a bunch of them, but it's somehow not reflective of the entire community, even though they all kind of knew that that was going on.

00:13:24.000 As long as you're not saying that in public, you're okay.

00:13:27.000 You're on a communications device, you're okay.

00:13:31.000 But otherwise, yeah, you're in trouble and you're going to jail.

00:13:34.000 But is what you're saying going to get you in trouble?

00:13:37.000 I mean, I'm in America.

00:13:38.000 Yeah, I know, but remember when they said they wanted to extradite American citizens?

00:13:41.000 I do remember, yeah.

00:13:43.000 I guess we'll find out when I get home, won't we?

00:13:47.000 I don't know.

00:13:47.000 What do you guys think?

00:13:48.000 TSA gotta go?

00:13:50.000 I mean, I would like to see the TSA go.

00:13:52.000 Privatizing things is a good idea, in my opinion.

00:13:55.000 The TSA has no record of preventing any type of terrorism.

00:13:59.000 There's no evidence that they have ever stopped a terrorist attack at all.

00:14:03.000 And every, not every, there have been...

00:14:06.000 Plenty of documented cases of people testing the TSA.

00:14:11.000 I mean, official tests where people from TSA go and they try to sneak things into airplanes.

00:14:16.000 And it's happened multiple times.

00:14:19.000 I personally have done a lot of flying myself.

00:14:22.000 And there have been times where I'll forget something in my bag and I'll get on a plane and I'll get off and I'll be like, whoa, that was not, you know, it's not cool that that was in there and stuff.

00:14:30.000 So I think that...

00:14:32.000 TSA, and if you look at the people that are working at TSA...

00:14:36.000 They're not specifically trained to do anything.

00:14:40.000 They'll do whatever the training is that they have to do to get the job, but they're no different than people that are working in the fast food industry or whatever because the job itself is simple.

00:14:53.000 You sit there, you tell people what they're allowed to have and not to have, and then you hand people bins.

00:14:59.000 Maybe the person that's actually watching the x-ray machine gets a little more training, but generally...

00:15:05.000 The level of training necessary to be a TSA agent is not particularly high.

00:15:11.000 It's not like it's some specialized skill that you have to go to school for.

00:15:15.000 It's a very low effort type of job.

00:15:21.000 So they're getting people that are just off the streets like, hey, I'm looking for a job.

00:15:24.000 Go sign up and you'll go through whatever training and then you get it.

00:15:27.000 So it's not in any way a specialized skill.

00:15:32.000 So get rid of it.

00:15:33.000 privatize it, let a private company actually do the job because they'll be more incentivized to do a better job.

00:15:42.000 You can give them great incentives as well.

00:15:43.000 You can be like, look, this is your base pay, but for every gun or whatever you catch going through, you get a bonus.

00:15:49.000 So they're completely, oh, we make more money for each thing we take.

00:15:53.000 I don't know if that'll work out well, though.

00:15:56.000 Give them a bonus for getting the lines through faster.

00:15:59.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:15:59.000 And obviously, if they mess up, then they get fired.

00:16:03.000 I don't know if that'll work either.

00:16:04.000 Yeah, I think that's going to kind of make things sketchy.

00:16:05.000 No, because if they mess up, they're still going to lose their job.

00:16:08.000 They still have to do their job well.

00:16:10.000 Like, if something happens, you lose your job.

00:16:12.000 We should be able to grade them on how good their pat-down was.

00:16:17.000 If you get to light a cigarette and feel good on the way to the gate, it's pretty good.

00:16:21.000 Do I get options on how this goes down?

00:16:22.000 I've had quite a few of those, yeah.

00:16:25.000 They give you the cigarette after...

00:16:26.000 Yeah, they're like, here you go, have a good one.

00:16:28.000 I'm like...

00:16:28.000 Do you need this?

00:16:29.000 There's a smoking lounge down the hall on the left.

00:16:31.000 You get pre-check, you get a private room.

00:16:33.000 I don't know.

00:16:34.000 I don't know that we ever actually did the TSA in the first place.

00:16:37.000 I think we did.

00:16:38.000 You think we did?

00:16:39.000 Yeah. I don't think that they'd catch box cutters now.

00:16:43.000 It's like...

00:16:45.000 Well, hang on.

00:16:45.000 So the issue isn't actually catching someone in the act because that's normally if someone's thinking about committing a crime and there's a guard stood right there, they're like, okay, I'm not going to do it.

00:16:56.000 But if there's no guard there...

00:16:57.000 Then the average Islamic extremist is like, oh right, I can just bring a bomb on here and no one's going to stop me. 0.99

00:17:02.000 So what you're doing is just saying, okay, go nuts. 0.97

00:17:04.000 Didn't some dude just recently open the door on a flight?

00:17:07.000 Probably, yeah.

00:17:08.000 I mean, we've got all of these crazy flight things happening.

00:17:13.000 People are going to go crazy.

00:17:14.000 And you know what else?

00:17:15.000 In first class, they give you metal utensils.

00:17:19.000 So it's like, there was this researcher named Evan Booth, I think his name was.

00:17:25.000 And he had a documentary series, like a mini-doc thing, where he made weapons inside of the airports, technically.

00:17:33.000 So, he went inside airports, he bought a bunch of stuff, and then left.

00:17:37.000 And then went to his lab and said, all of these were sourced from an airport, and then made weapons.

00:17:41.000 It starts pretty rudimentary.

00:17:43.000 He rolled up a bunch of magazines, taped them together, and made a club, and bashed stuff with it.

00:17:47.000 Yeah, okay, fine.

00:17:49.000 You can bash things.

00:17:50.000 But he actually ended up making grenades.

00:17:53.000 Because they sold...

00:17:54.000 I'm not going to explain the recipe.

00:17:56.000 Best not to.

00:17:57.000 It's all on the internet.

00:17:58.000 I actually flew down and met with him.

00:18:00.000 I think it was in North Carolina.

00:18:01.000 And we actually made improvised explosives.

00:18:04.000 Didn't they take those off of YouTube?

00:18:06.000 I think YouTube took them down.

00:18:08.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:08.000 I think YouTube...

00:18:09.000 Vice had a video.

00:18:10.000 I think YouTube got rid of it all because they were like, oh.

00:18:12.000 And so his whole point was TSA doesn't do anything.

00:18:15.000 There are things being sold in an airport.

00:18:18.000 That can very easily be turned into weapons and explosives.

00:18:21.000 There are pens that are made specifically to be self-defense items that the TSA will not stop.

00:18:28.000 Is that stuff under the domain of the TSA?

00:18:31.000 Like, is a private security going to change stuff like that?

00:18:34.000 I don't think so.

00:18:36.000 I don't think so.

00:18:36.000 But it might be.

00:18:37.000 And honestly, if you have a system where there's private security companies that are competing to get the contract, the private security company can actually go to the airport and say, these are the things that we do.

00:18:48.000 This is the quality that we can provide.

00:18:50.000 And the airport itself can say, we want to go with this company or we want to go with that company.

00:18:55.000 The problem, though, is it's not really about stopping an individual case, right?

00:19:00.000 It's really about the deterrent and not having a soft underbelly and making them think that you're going to stop them.

00:19:06.000 Because I guarantee it, the second the TSA, if all checks were taken off tomorrow, you would just start seeing this uptick of hijackings and explosives.

00:19:15.000 Because there is an active force in the world that is at war with the United States.

00:19:21.000 I'm actually more concerned with leftists right now.

00:19:25.000 It could be those.

00:19:26.000 All of the low-grade terror that we see comes from the left.

00:19:30.000 And they have mainstream support, which is worrying.

00:19:33.000 We will get into that, but let's jump to this story real quick while we're still on the topic of getting rid of government.

00:19:37.000 We've got this one from Fox News.

00:19:39.000 The GOP moves to defund the chronically biased NPR and PBS after a disastrous hearing.

00:19:44.000 They're always so clever with their bills.

00:19:47.000 Titled the No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act, or simply the NPR and PBS Act.

00:19:53.000 Ha. Would fully cut off any direct or indirect government funding for both outlets, forcing them to compete instead of being propped up by the government.

00:20:02.000 Did you guys see the hearing that went down?

00:20:05.000 I think it was today.

00:20:06.000 Where they had the CEO, maybe it was yesterday, the CEO of NPR.

00:20:10.000 Man, I gotta pull this one up.

00:20:11.000 Let me grab this one.

00:20:13.000 Basically, she's asked if NPR is biased.

00:20:16.000 Yes, I heard.

00:20:17.000 And then she's like, no, it is not. 1.00

00:20:18.000 And he's like, then why did you tweet Trump is a fascist, racist, white supremacist? 0.99

00:20:24.000 Yeah, I was treating that in a personal capacity. 0.99

00:20:27.000 That wasn't a professional capacity.

00:20:28.000 In my professional life, I'm completely neutral on Trump.

00:20:31.000 I think there are 87 people on the board there, or I don't remember if it was the board or whatever, there were 87 officials that were involved in NPR.

00:20:42.000 87 of them are Democrats, and when questioned about it, she was like, well, we don't ask people their political meetings, but I do find this to be a problem, and that's concerning.

00:20:54.000 It's like, that is absolute BS.

00:20:57.000 Absolute BS.

00:20:58.000 Here, take a look at this clip.

00:21:00.000 And did you say there's no bias on NPR?

00:21:03.000 That is not a bias statement, ma'am.

00:21:08.000 Both parties wrap themselves around this song.

00:21:10.000 Every time there's a national conflict, Lee Greenwood sings it, and he does a beautiful job.

00:21:16.000 But you say there is no bias in NPR.

00:21:19.000 That is that individual's opinion, and she, of course, is entitled to it.

00:21:22.000 But that is not the position of NPR.

00:21:23.000 Ma'am, you said in your opening statement that you were going to be transformative.

00:21:29.000 And I believe you failed to do that. 0.98

00:21:31.000 Let me ask you, why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath in 2020? 0.96

00:21:38.000 Congressman, I appreciate the opportunity to address this. 0.95

00:21:41.000 I regret those tweets.

00:21:42.000 I would not tweet them again today.

00:21:44.000 They represented a time where I was reflecting on...

00:21:47.000 Yo, there's way more.

00:21:48.000 It's endless.

00:21:49.000 We've got this tweet from Brandon Gill.

00:21:52.000 Let's watch this one.

00:21:53.000 Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

00:21:57.000 I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.

00:22:04.000 It has evolved.

00:22:05.000 Why did you tweet that?

00:22:07.000 I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.

00:22:11.000 Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? 0.96

00:22:17.000 I don't believe that, sir.

00:22:19.000 You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.

00:22:25.000 I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.

00:22:27.000 You tweeted about it.

00:22:29.000 You said you took a day off to fully read The Case for Reparations.

00:22:34.000 You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.

00:22:37.000 Apologies, I don't recall that I did.

00:22:40.000 It's literally three minutes of this.

00:22:41.000 Your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that.

00:22:44.000 Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?

00:22:48.000 I do not.

00:22:49.000 You tweeted something to that effect.

00:22:52.000 You said, I grew up feeling superior, ha, how white of me.

00:22:55.000 Why did you tweet that?

00:22:57.000 I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.

00:23:04.000 It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.

00:23:08.000 I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir.

00:23:10.000 I was just reflecting on my own experience.

00:23:12.000 You think the white people should pay reparations?

00:23:15.000 I have never said that, sir.

00:23:17.000 Yes, you did.

00:23:18.000 In January of 2020, you tweeted.

00:23:21.000 Yes, the North.

00:23:21.000 Yes, all of us.

00:23:22.000 Yes, America.

00:23:23.000 Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.

00:23:26.000 Yes, reparations.

00:23:28.000 Yes, on this day.

00:23:29.000 I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

00:23:32.000 What kind of reparations was it a reference to?

00:23:34.000 I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

00:23:39.000 That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

00:23:44.000 Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid?

00:23:48.000 Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.

00:23:52.000 Okay, just for everybody else.

00:23:54.000 I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations.

00:23:56.000 Seems to be what you're suggesting.

00:23:57.000 Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?

00:23:59.000 I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to it as counterproductive.

00:24:03.000 I think it should be prosecuted.

00:24:04.000 Do you believe it's morally wrong, though?

00:24:06.000 Of course.

00:24:07.000 Of course.

00:24:07.000 Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?

00:24:10.000 It's a very different way to describe it.

00:24:13.000 It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as being illegal.

00:24:16.000 You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression.

00:24:26.000 You didn't condemn the looting.

00:24:28.000 You said that it was counterproductive.

00:24:30.000 NPR also...

00:24:32.000 Stop, she's already dead! 0.99

00:24:34.000 Jesus, man!

00:24:36.000 Yeah, it's just three minutes of that straight.

00:24:38.000 I love his smirk, though.

00:24:39.000 I love his smirk.

00:24:40.000 He's so gone.

00:24:41.000 The best is when she's like, I never said it.

00:24:44.000 He goes, yeah, you did.

00:24:45.000 You tweeted it right here.

00:24:47.000 That's NPR.

00:24:48.000 That's the CEO of NPR.

00:24:49.000 I feel like she should have known by then to stop saying I never said that.

00:24:52.000 Oh, yeah. 0.99

00:24:52.000 He has all these papers and she can't remember shit. 0.99

00:24:55.000 I'm sure there's nothing else on that. 0.98

00:24:57.000 I'm sure it's just that one, you know?

00:24:59.000 So, she gets asked by Rhett Burchett, If they've ever conducted a review to see if they have bias in the company, and she goes, our audience is 33% conservative, which is not answering the question.

00:25:11.000 But it also indicts her.

00:25:12.000 Why isn't your audience 50% conservative?

00:25:15.000 If you're an unbiased thing, why wouldn't it be roughly equal?

00:25:17.000 Well, her argument is that because it's 30% Republican, 30% Independent, 30% Democrat.

00:25:22.000 But here's the thing.

00:25:26.000 She believes because Republicans watch or listen to NPR, That means they're not biased.

00:25:32.000 Republicans complain all day and night about how biased NPR is and they still watch because conservatives are trying to get a full perspective on what's going on.

00:25:41.000 That's why conservatives know what liberals are thinking and liberals think conservatives are insane and evil.

00:25:49.000 The liberals, and you pointed to it there, the liberals actually think that conservatives are evil, right?

00:25:56.000 They think that it is a moral question, that every political question is actually a moral question.

00:26:02.000 And if you come down in a place that is not where the consensus is, it is because of a character flaw or some kind of defect with the person.

00:26:12.000 Totally ignoring the fact that their morals are based on Christian... 1.00

00:26:19.000 No, no, no.

00:26:20.000 If it was a character flaw or something intrinsically defective about the person, the liberal would let it go, right?

00:26:26.000 Because that's what every thief...

00:26:28.000 Every mugging, every violent encounter, they'll say, oh no, he was from a bad home.

00:26:33.000 Look at his environment.

00:26:34.000 No, no, no.

00:26:36.000 They think you choose to be evil.

00:26:37.000 They think you've weighed up the pros and cons of both sides.

00:26:40.000 You go, no, I'm team evil.

00:26:42.000 And that's what they think.

00:26:43.000 If they thought there was something wrong with you that prevented you from arriving at the morally correct liberal perspective, they'd let it go.

00:26:49.000 They'd be like, yeah, no, it's fine.

00:26:50.000 Just from a bad home, whatever.

00:26:51.000 No, no, no.

00:26:52.000 They think you know what you're doing and they think that you're evil.

00:26:54.000 And that's what they think.

00:26:57.000 Awareness and choice.

00:26:58.000 Yes. That's why it was what, Solzhenitsyn, the story of the army officer who stabbed the other guy, they prosecuted, so the story was there's an army officer, he gets attacked, the guy pulls a knife on him, tries to kill him, he defends himself, grabs the knife, stabs the other guy, he gets arrested.

00:27:13.000 Yeah. And they said, well, the criminal didn't know better.

00:27:15.000 You did!

00:27:16.000 You could have fled!

00:27:17.000 Yeah. Why didn't you run?

00:27:18.000 And he was like, the guy was trying to kill me?

00:27:20.000 Yeah. That's how it was in the Soviet Union.

00:27:22.000 And that's how it is anywhere the left is in charge.

00:27:25.000 Yeah. Because the left's fundamental position, remember, is that society is inevitable and it makes people bad.

00:27:31.000 And if you're, therefore, society itself is something, there's something wrong with it, right?

00:27:36.000 And if you're paying your taxes, if you're following the law, you're obeying the rules, and you're doing okay out of it, well, then you're just complicit with the evil society.

00:27:46.000 The people who aren't following the laws are the ones who have been made bad by society.

00:27:49.000 So the evil society has turned them into this, and therefore that person is a victim of the evil society that you prop up with your text, with your obedience.

00:27:57.000 Because you know better.

00:27:58.000 That's why you've got to break rocks.

00:27:59.000 And remember, you're choosing to be evil in this evil society.

00:28:02.000 That's why they hate you so much.

00:28:03.000 You know what I love? 1.00

00:28:05.000 Just how mathematically stupid the communism is. 1.00

00:28:09.000 I mean, obviously, in a variety of ways, it's very stupid. 1.00

00:28:11.000 But, you know, from each according to their ability to each according to their need. 0.99

00:28:16.000 That's theft. 1.00

00:28:17.000 Well, but it's also mathematically just stupid. 0.99

00:28:19.000 You know, let's do the math on this. 0.97

00:28:21.000 You got ten people in a room, and you're like, eight of them produce nothing, but they need, you know, 100% of the resources per person.

00:28:29.000 Okay, well, you just die.

00:28:31.000 Everything literally falls apart.

00:28:32.000 Even if they only need a tenth of the resources, how is it just to make two people provide resources for another eight people?

00:28:40.000 Oh, I don't care about that.

00:28:41.000 I mean...

00:28:41.000 I understand that point.

00:28:43.000 I'm just saying if we're doing simple math and it's like, okay, we got 100 people in a room or on a farm.

00:28:50.000 50 of them can grow just enough food for themselves.

00:28:53.000 The other 50 can only grow half.

00:28:55.000 It's like, okay, well, people are going to die.

00:28:58.000 25 people probably are going to starve to death.

00:29:00.000 That's communism.

00:29:01.000 It's literally what happens every time because the math will just tell you that.

00:29:04.000 It's like 1 plus 1 equals 2. But they try.

00:29:07.000 Bless their hearts.

00:29:08.000 They keep trying.

00:29:09.000 While they stand in a pile of dead bodies.

00:29:10.000 But the thing is, it's not about anything to do with what you're talking about, which is reality or practical concerns, right?

00:29:17.000 But you laugh.

00:29:18.000 It's entirely a sort of utopian moral dream that they're following.

00:29:22.000 And it's every single time.

00:29:24.000 It's always the same dream.

00:29:26.000 And there's a reason that the liberals and the communists basically look the same at this point in time.

00:29:32.000 What's the actual difference between Nancy Pelosi and some AOC? 1.00

00:29:38.000 AOC hasn't had enough time to insider trade to $200 million.

00:29:42.000 Morally, I meant.

00:29:43.000 Not financially.

00:29:45.000 But morally, they want the same things.

00:29:47.000 They all want the same things.

00:29:48.000 Because it all kind of harmonizes into the same philosophy at the end of the day.

00:29:51.000 So let's get into the philosophy here.

00:29:53.000 We'll start with this story from the White House.

00:29:56.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the White House posted a Studio Ghibli meme of a morbidly obese criminal illegal immigrant being arrested by, I assume, Tom Homan.

00:30:05.000 This is from...

00:30:08.000 The United States White House, Carl, this is what our White House is doing.

00:30:11.000 I've seen.

00:30:12.000 Awesome. Studio Ghibli.

00:30:15.000 Okay, so this is a couple of stories.

00:30:17.000 You've got this fentanyl dealer arrested.

00:30:19.000 The White House announced this a week ago.

00:30:21.000 And then the Studio Ghibli memes go viral where people are loading photos into ChetGPT and saying to recreate it in the style of Studio Ghibli.

00:30:29.000 So the White House made an image of a crying, morbidly obese fentanyl drug dealer criminal legal alien being arrested.

00:30:37.000 And this is, I'm for it.

00:30:39.000 And of course the leftists have taken the side that this is morally reprehensible and that, of course, the fentanyl dealing, multiple time arrested, illegal criminal is the victim here.

00:30:55.000 Carl, Carl, look at what the serfs responded with.

00:30:57.000 Can you want to read that?

00:30:59.000 Can you read it?

00:30:59.000 Yes. That's a very interesting thing for him to say as an avowed atheist, I'm sure.

00:31:04.000 He says, none of you will see the kingdom of heaven.

00:31:07.000 Yeah. I really love the meme where it's like, I forgot exactly what the quote is, but I reject your backwards views.

00:31:14.000 Your religion is offensive to me, but I'll appeal to it because maybe then you'll do what I tell you to do. 1.00

00:31:18.000 That's exactly what they do.

00:31:21.000 Kids watch Studio Ghibli.

00:31:22.000 This is just hilarious.

00:31:24.000 I mean, they're great movies.

00:31:26.000 They are.

00:31:26.000 You know, you got Howl's Moving Castle.

00:31:28.000 I've never seen a single one.

00:31:30.000 Really? Yeah.

00:31:31.000 I think I tweeted at you, Howl's Moving Castle.

00:31:33.000 I will watch them there, because I've had so many people like, oh, you should watch this, this, this, so I will.

00:31:37.000 I mean, they're kind of just silly fairy tales.

00:31:39.000 There's no... 0.52

00:31:40.000 Right, exactly.

00:31:41.000 That's why I think they're great. 0.99

00:31:41.000 But they're not built around the same catty conflict that most American shit is built around. 0.99

00:31:47.000 It's actually... 0.98

00:31:48.000 It's got more depth than that.

00:31:50.000 Yeah, like, Howl's Moving Castle is...

00:31:53.000 The sorcerer has a castle that walks.

00:31:55.000 And then a witch curses a young lady to be old. 0.87

00:31:58.000 And you're like, well, that happened.

00:31:59.000 It's fun.

00:32:01.000 Ponyo, my cousin Totoro.

00:32:03.000 There's some really good ones.

00:32:04.000 My neighbor Totoro.

00:32:04.000 My neighbor Totoro, yeah.

00:32:05.000 Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away.

00:32:08.000 Ah, there's so many good ones.

00:32:09.000 There's really good ones.

00:32:09.000 We love them.

00:32:10.000 So can I be the fun police?

00:32:13.000 Fun police?

00:32:14.000 No. What's going on?

00:32:15.000 I don't think this is wise.

00:32:16.000 Why not?

00:32:18.000 Okay, so a couple of things.

00:32:19.000 So first things first.

00:32:22.000 I've never seen a Studio Ghibli film, but everyone loves them, and it seems to be that they have a kind of nostalgia about them.

00:32:29.000 There's something kind of dreamy and nice about them.

00:32:34.000 Have you seen the memes?

00:32:37.000 The Studio Ghibli memes?

00:32:38.000 Yeah, yeah, I've seen them.

00:32:39.000 Everybody loves Studio Ghibli, and everybody is posting these memes.

00:32:43.000 I know.

00:32:43.000 And there's some of the most vile imagery imaginable, Ghiblified.

00:32:47.000 I know.

00:32:47.000 9-11 Ghiblified.

00:32:49.000 I know.

00:32:50.000 You're saying it's poor taste.

00:32:52.000 No, it's not that it's poor taste.

00:32:53.000 It's that this is tapping into the sentimental, nostalgic side of a person's brain, and what this does is actually frame the fentanyl dealer as what appears to be a sympathetic victim.

00:33:10.000 If you didn't know anything about the backstory...

00:33:12.000 I see what you're saying.

00:33:13.000 Why is this mean man arresting this poor, obese...

00:33:18.000 Woman of colour.

00:33:20.000 She's crying and I guess she's getting deported.

00:33:23.000 There should be cartoon fentanyl.

00:33:25.000 Yeah. So if you don't know anything about it, this just looks quite mean, right?

00:33:31.000 If you're from the outside.

00:33:32.000 There's a second thing as well, which is there's...

00:33:36.000 Political capital is never static, right?

00:33:41.000 You're either gaining it or losing it.

00:33:43.000 And when you take responsible actions that...

00:33:46.000 People who don't like you can't help but show respect to.

00:33:49.000 You're gaining it.

00:33:51.000 When you are doing something that you know the other side hates, but you think it needs to be done anyway, you're losing it.

00:33:57.000 You burn it up.

00:33:59.000 This is something the other side hates, but it doesn't really do anything.

00:34:02.000 So it's an expense in political capital that isn't really very wise, because what this does to people who are not heavily on the internet like us is make me think, why is there a childish Zoomer in charge of the White House official communications? 0.72

00:34:15.000 This doesn't make me think well of the Trump administration generally.

00:34:19.000 And therefore you lose a lot more political capital than you might think.

00:34:23.000 Maybe. I think also one thing to consider is this is a hyper online thing.

00:34:28.000 I mean, if you're not online, you're not seeing this post.

00:34:30.000 Sure, but they'll write a bunch of news articles about this.

00:34:33.000 They were like, the White House official communications are now mocking poor obese fentanyl dealers.

00:34:38.000 And look at the crying face. 0.98

00:34:40.000 Well, they would say asylum seeker. 0.87

00:34:43.000 Whatever it is.

00:34:43.000 But I wonder with this, it's...

00:34:46.000 How much goodwill have they lost because they've lied so much?

00:34:51.000 And additionally, does the White House use the strategy of get them to complain to annoy the base or their base?

00:34:59.000 Possibly. But the problem I think that the Trump administration is showing at the moment, and this is a genuine form of weakness that I think could be avoided.

00:35:09.000 And I say this as someone who's been a Trump partisan since 2016, right?

00:35:13.000 So I'm not...

00:35:14.000 I don't think anyone would ever accuse me of not sporting Trump hard enough.

00:35:19.000 A couple of years ago, I went to a conference in Miami, and Curtis Yarvin, of all people, was speaking there.

00:35:25.000 He said, look, the Republicans need a plan to literally own the libs, because if you come back and you win a superb victory, they're going to be under your dominion, right?

00:35:35.000 You're going to be the ones making decisions for them, and you can either make good decisions that actually make everyone's lives better, Leave them in a position where they have to admit that you have done good things, or you can wind them up for four years and end up burning up a bunch of political capital that you'll carry as baggage afterwards.

00:36:00.000 And it seems actually the Trump administration is kind of going in the wrong direction there.

00:36:04.000 It would actually be more sensible if they had a proper plan to own the libs.

00:36:08.000 What if this is the muzzle velocity that Steve Bannon was talking about?

00:36:13.000 Sorry, go on.

00:36:13.000 Tell me what you were saying there.

00:36:14.000 Well, just the muzzle velocity of, like, thing after thing after thing, so the other side doesn't know what to even address.

00:36:21.000 Yeah, but the thing is, it's not really about the other side, because the other side, no matter what happens, they're going to be entrenched activists against everything you do for every reason.

00:36:30.000 The issue is essentially not to give them an easy win.

00:36:35.000 This stuff is giving them an easy win.

00:36:37.000 Even if everyone hates them, and everyone does hate the Democrats, they don't hate the Democrats so much that they don't care what the sitting administration does, and that doesn't reflect on them.

00:36:46.000 And it's not that this...

00:36:48.000 No one of these things is going to be a dramatic drop, but it's about the slow, gradual whittling away of the political capital that the Trump administration had really built up.

00:36:58.000 And you are right about the sort of flood the zone thing.

00:37:01.000 That is good.

00:37:02.000 In a situation where you need to keep your opponent off their feet.

00:37:05.000 But there is still a collective effect, which is why are they being sort of childish and chaotic?

00:37:12.000 Why aren't they being authoritative and responsible?

00:37:15.000 Maybe this will result in them writing a bunch of stories and defending a fentanyl dealer.

00:37:20.000 Which they can then respond with, you're defending a criminal illegal alien fentanyl dealer.

00:37:25.000 Yeah, but the problem is it's not really about the individual, the actual battlefield of what the person did.

00:37:30.000 The problem is it's about the character of the people engaged in the fights.

00:37:34.000 And what the Trump administration should be doing at the moment is demonstrating higher character than the Democrats, which is not hard to do.

00:37:41.000 And the thing is, I believe that the Trump administration has higher character than the Democrats.

00:37:46.000 Because I know several of them myself.

00:37:47.000 I'm friends with a bunch of them.

00:37:48.000 I'm friends with...

00:37:49.000 A bunch of the people around them.

00:37:50.000 And I like everyone in this sphere, but the problem is I think that a lot of you guys have been in the trenches for a long time, right?

00:37:56.000 And when you've been in the trenches, you've been under constant fire from the Democrats.

00:37:59.000 It's nice to have these wins, now you've got the leaves of power.

00:38:02.000 But the thing is, a lot of the country is not an entrenched MAGA Republican, right?

00:38:08.000 And yet they still lent their votes to Trump.

00:38:10.000 Because they're like, no, Trump is the guy to fix problems.

00:38:12.000 And he is.

00:38:13.000 He is fixing loads of problems.

00:38:14.000 I'm so jealous of Doge.

00:38:16.000 I'm so jealous of what he's doing on the border.

00:38:17.000 I'm so jealous of what he's doing just cutting down the state in general and just making America a more potent force in the world.

00:38:24.000 This kind of thing detracts from that.

00:38:26.000 And it becomes a kind of stain on what is otherwise a cavalcade of glory.

00:38:31.000 And there's no reason not to actually really sort of step into the role of, no, we are the saviours of the West here.

00:38:39.000 We don't need to be pratting around.

00:38:40.000 We're not even just going to crush our opponents.

00:38:43.000 That's already happened.

00:38:44.000 We're going to show them how a good future is going to be, and it doesn't need that.

00:38:50.000 I see what you're saying.

00:38:51.000 I largely agree.

00:38:53.000 It's not funny either.

00:38:55.000 It is funny, but there is a bigger concern.

00:38:57.000 I do think that while I agree and I understand what you're saying, I do think it's really minimal.

00:39:02.000 The bigger thing that Trump has done, the biggest things he's done, one, gutting USAID, which is how a lot of these lawyers and legal firms were having money run through NGOs, but requiring citizenship for voting.

00:39:14.000 We might not have to worry so much for two big reasons.

00:39:17.000 Even Ezra Klein has come out and said the 2030 census is going to shift so many congressional seats away from Democrats and blue states towards red that...

00:39:26.000 The fascinating thing about elections is that if one person switches their vote from, say, Ben to Carl, it doesn't create a one-point swing.

00:39:36.000 It creates a two-point swing.

00:39:37.000 So when California loses three and New York gains three, you've not got a six-point difference.

00:39:43.000 That is much more difficult for them to overcome in terms of earning more votes in their states or in other states.

00:39:50.000 That's coming no matter what.

00:39:52.000 And the 2020 census was done wrong.

00:39:54.000 Everybody's talking about it, saying there's going to be a correction.

00:39:56.000 Ezra Klein made a video where he basically said, even if Kamala Harris ended up winning like North Carolina and Pennsylvania, she still would lose with the new electoral map.

00:40:04.000 So while I respect what you're saying...

00:40:06.000 Hang on, hang on.

00:40:07.000 I agree that that is all true.

00:40:11.000 But there's a kind of...

00:40:16.000 There's a kind of calcification in the mindset of American political commentary when it comes to this kind of flipping on the map, because what Trump showed is that people actually change their mind, right?

00:40:28.000 Lots of people actually do change their mind and swing from one way to another.

00:40:33.000 They actually decide, no, I'm going over.

00:40:36.000 Just changing the demographics, as the Democrats discovered, isn't enough, actually.

00:40:40.000 Because a lot of those people can be persuaded over to the Donald Trump side to make America great, right?

00:40:45.000 So it's not that you're wrong.

00:40:46.000 Obviously, you're completely correct about that.

00:40:48.000 But it's just like extra layers of things that could go wrong for the Republicans.

00:40:52.000 Do you think the argument changed the people's minds?

00:40:55.000 Or do you think that the actual...

00:40:57.000 Conditions on the ground is what changed people's mind.

00:40:59.000 Because it's my sense that they didn't like what they saw from the Biden administration less than conservatives made arguments that they were convinced by.

00:41:08.000 I think it's both things.

00:41:09.000 I mean, the argument that you make...

00:41:11.000 It not only attracts the people who already agree with that, obviously, and anyone who is potentially going to be persuaded by it on its own merits in the abstract, but it also stakes out your position, right?

00:41:21.000 So you say, no, look, we are the party of law and order, we're the party of borders, we're the party of doing things right, they're the party of evil, and they come out and go, yes, we're the party of evil, this is our evil constituency, and so it...

00:41:32.000 If things are bad under the party of evil, then they can always go over to the Republicans and the MAGA base, right?

00:41:38.000 And so you've always got that kind of castle there that people can run to as refugees politically.

00:41:44.000 So it's not that the individual argument makes the difference.

00:41:48.000 It's just that you set yourself up as an alternative that they can choose, and did, in large numbers.

00:41:53.000 Trump winning the popular vote, the Democrats are hanging their head in shame.

00:41:57.000 Because they were so proud that Trump lost the popular vote the first time around.

00:42:01.000 It's like, no, you've got nothing now.

00:42:02.000 Yeah. But the point being, the MAGA people running the White House thing, what they should be posting, if they want to post memetic stuff on the internet, is almost kind of...

00:42:14.000 I'm not superhero, but you know what I mean?

00:42:17.000 Something noble is what they should be posting, I think, rather than memes.

00:42:22.000 Let your base post the memes.

00:42:25.000 You know in the group chat where they have the America with the shield and the sword?

00:42:29.000 Yeah. That's fine.

00:42:30.000 So how about...

00:42:31.000 It would have been acceptable if...

00:42:33.000 In your estimation, would it have been fine if J.D. Vance posted that from his account?

00:42:38.000 Or would it be...

00:42:39.000 He's the vice president.

00:42:40.000 The thing about Vance is that he's a really credible guy.

00:42:43.000 He's a really good talker.

00:42:45.000 He looks responsible.

00:42:46.000 He's a dad.

00:42:47.000 He's got the right aura about him.

00:42:49.000 He could sit down in a room full of...

00:42:51.000 He could go on The View and...

00:42:54.000 Mollify their fears, right?

00:42:56.000 He shouldn't be memeing either.

00:42:58.000 And it's not that I don't like memes or anything like that.

00:43:00.000 What it is is about what's the outside perception of that.

00:43:03.000 I get what you're saying, yeah.

00:43:04.000 Sorry. I was thinking of the administrative tactics outside of all this.

00:43:10.000 Sorry, go on.

00:43:12.000 The administrative things that Trump has done may result in Democrats never winning again.

00:43:16.000 Or at least not this iteration.

00:43:18.000 And then you take on Gallup's polling.

00:43:20.000 You get NBC.

00:43:21.000 You get CNN.

00:43:22.000 Showing Democrats at record low disapproval ratings, 29%, 27%.

00:43:26.000 Another poll coming out showing it's at 26%.

00:43:28.000 Gallup showing that 51% of the Democratic Party either want it to stay the same or move further left.

00:43:35.000 And so while the argument from Gallup is a plurality wants moderation, that doesn't get to the big picture of the Democratic Party.

00:43:42.000 45%, according to Gallup, say be more moderate.

00:43:45.000 22% say stay the same.

00:43:47.000 29% say move to the left.

00:43:49.000 But here's the thing. 0.83

00:43:51.000 They're currently insane.

00:43:52.000 So if we're talking about how the Democrats win, moderating is how they win.

00:43:58.000 But if 22% are like, let's keep being as crazy as we are, and 29% says, let's be crazier than that, that's the direction they're going to go.

00:44:06.000 And then they're not going to be able to win.

00:44:07.000 And then depending on what happens in the next year, with Trump gutting their resources and these executive orders, their schemes may end as well.

00:44:20.000 So we may actually see, this will be interesting, Rosie O'Donnell says that Elon Musk owns and controls the internet, and that Trump is the first president to ever win every swing state.

00:44:30.000 Okay. Well, maybe Elon does, but Elon says he thinks we can get to 60 senators.

00:44:35.000 I would love to see it.

00:44:37.000 I would love to see it.

00:44:38.000 But the thing is, remember, the Democrats were like, oh, look at the demographics of Texas.

00:44:43.000 Look at the demographics of wherever. 0.96

00:44:45.000 We're going to bust a load of illegals in there. 1.00

00:44:47.000 You're never going to win again.

00:44:48.000 It's going to be Democrat rule forever at the end of the Republicans.

00:44:51.000 And that didn't happen, right?

00:44:52.000 So I'm not saying that you're wrong.

00:44:54.000 Obviously, all of the things you're saying are accurate.

00:44:56.000 But it's all predicated on people just not having a change of heart.

00:45:01.000 Right. Not necessarily.

00:45:03.000 Donald Trump revoked, do you see this story, 530,000 legal immigration statuses from migrants.

00:45:09.000 So it was a ploy.

00:45:11.000 Biden said, if you can get a sponsor, you can come.

00:45:14.000 And 530,000 people came in.

00:45:15.000 Trump said, you're out.

00:45:16.000 Trump's not only kicking out the illegal immigrants, the criminals, the gangs, he's kicking out people who are given temporary protected status.

00:45:24.000 He's getting rid of people who came here legally under a Biden policy.

00:45:27.000 And he's revoking student visas for people who are anti-Israel.

00:45:32.000 So he's booting a lot of people.

00:45:35.000 So maybe he doesn't make it to 26. Who knows?

00:45:40.000 This is going to be a long battle for the next five years, which will impact 2030 midterms.

00:45:46.000 So 2032 will be the true test.

00:45:48.000 But based on what we're seeing, I've got no reason to believe that Democrats can muster up anything to counter Trump.

00:45:53.000 That being said, I understand your point on don't be a child.

00:45:59.000 We are watching Donald Trump's march to the sea on the deep state. 0.82

00:46:02.000 Don't deviate with silly, childish things.

00:46:05.000 Don't mess around.

00:46:06.000 Don't take risks.

00:46:06.000 Because you don't know what will happen tomorrow.

00:46:09.000 Tomorrow, some Democrat whiz kid could come up and be like, oh, look, in 2028, I'll be 35 or whatever.

00:46:14.000 Harry Sisson?

00:46:16.000 Not him.

00:46:18.000 And he might have superb rhetoric and actually a new form of argumentation that is just very persuasive to people.

00:46:25.000 And suddenly you find yourself on the defensive and you're like, well, how did this happen?

00:46:29.000 These kind of reverses happen all the time.

00:46:31.000 Trump is it.

00:46:33.000 Exactly. Trump's a great example of it, right?

00:46:35.000 So it's just don't be arrogant, don't be conceited.

00:46:39.000 Do the job properly, but be confident, you know, be responsible, and you can win.

00:46:44.000 What did people say?

00:46:45.000 They posted a video saying J.D. Vance was planting freedom seeds on the range with the Marines.

00:46:51.000 You see the video?

00:46:51.000 No, no, I didn't see that.

00:46:53.000 This is the best vice president I've ever had in my life.

00:46:57.000 J.D. Vance was at the range.

00:46:59.000 He was...

00:47:01.000 Shooting at the range with Marines.

00:47:03.000 And they said he got a headshot.

00:47:05.000 I don't know how many yards it was, but to see the vice president actually working with the troops, knowing what he's doing.

00:47:11.000 I'm a huge fan of military leadership in the executive branch.

00:47:16.000 Donald Trump doesn't get a special pass for me in this regard.

00:47:19.000 The dude is our first president with no political military experience or anything like that.

00:47:23.000 Just business.

00:47:24.000 But it's okay.

00:47:25.000 It's okay.

00:47:25.000 We take what we can get.

00:47:27.000 J.D. Vance is great.

00:47:28.000 So, you know, people have been getting really excited seeing things like this and speeches he's been given.

00:47:33.000 Like, maybe actually he will step up in 2028 and be the guy.

00:47:36.000 Yeah. Well, let's jump to the story from the Post Millennial.

00:47:39.000 Man arrested for targeted attack at Las Vegas Tesla Center, according to police.

00:47:44.000 Police said the Molotov cocktails were used in order to set several fires, set fire to several Teslas.

00:47:49.000 They got him, ladies and gentlemen.

00:47:50.000 There he is.

00:47:51.000 He has a big beard.

00:47:52.000 That's exactly as I expected.

00:47:54.000 Actual communist.

00:47:55.000 Actual communist.

00:47:55.000 Paul Kim was arrested Wednesday, charged with arson as well as possessing an explosive device.

00:48:00.000 I think he's facing, what, 20 years?

00:48:03.000 Good. And is this federal or is this state?

00:48:06.000 I think this might be just state, right?

00:48:07.000 I don't know, but...

00:48:09.000 He was arrested on Wednesday.

00:48:10.000 Police said Vegas.

00:48:12.000 Yeah, Las Vegas Metro.

00:48:13.000 Means federal charges are coming next.

00:48:15.000 Good. This dude's going away for a long time.

00:48:17.000 I mean, he's a terrorist. 0.98

00:48:18.000 Yep. Indeed. 0.99

00:48:20.000 And there's many more.

00:48:22.000 Here's a video of a man smearing dog feces on a Cybertruck.

00:48:26.000 And then we've got another one, I think.

00:48:29.000 Here we go.

00:48:30.000 So I tweeted...

00:48:31.000 This proves low IQ at this point.

00:48:33.000 Teslas have cameras.

00:48:35.000 They are lacking the cognitive faculties to understand.

00:48:38.000 Check this out.

00:48:38.000 ...

00:48:39.000 by glances over at the car.

00:48:40.000 Moments later, they return and quickly start keying the passenger door.

00:48:44.000 She's writing something.

00:48:45.000 ...

00:48:45.000 with a phone in the other hand.

00:48:46.000 She looks like a goblin.

00:48:47.000 You can tell in the video, too.

00:48:48.000 Like, they're actively starting to record and they're recording the whole thing.

00:48:52.000 You can easily tell this is a targeted, like, there's intent there.

00:48:55.000 And they, you know...

00:48:56.000 Kind of a mockery of it, right?

00:48:58.000 There's a camera, dude.

00:49:00.000 Seconds later, the vandal runs off.

00:49:02.000 The owners, who asked to remain anonymous, notice the damage about a half hour later and say since then they have felt unsettled and somewhat fearful.

00:49:10.000 These are felonies.

00:49:11.000 Yeah. These people are all going to prison for a long, long time.

00:49:15.000 Now, Carl, you said they're leftists.

00:49:18.000 Agreed. Let that be a synonym for...

00:49:21.000 Cognitively disabled or developmentally disabled?

00:49:24.000 I thought it was.

00:49:26.000 We'd all agreed.

00:49:27.000 Indeed, because also, as I was mentioning earlier, the math doesn't add up at all.

00:49:32.000 Let's get a bunch of people who don't produce as much as they need and see what happens.

00:49:37.000 What? You'd starve to death.

00:49:40.000 And then, is it any wonder that every time communism happens, they starve to death?

00:49:44.000 No. No.

00:49:48.000 It's consistent.

00:49:49.000 Indeed. You see, I'm making the mistake of projecting my intelligence onto other people.

00:49:57.000 When I say, but Teslas have cameras, I have an IQ above 70 and can notice cameras on Teslas.

00:50:06.000 They cannot.

00:50:06.000 If it helps, I didn't know Teslas had cameras either.

00:50:09.000 Really? I don't have one or anything.

00:50:11.000 I don't know.

00:50:12.000 I just didn't think about it, right?

00:50:13.000 It never came up.

00:50:15.000 That's how they auto drive.

00:50:17.000 Honestly, not...

00:50:18.000 Not to sound disparaging to the UK, but car ownership is not as common in the UK as it is in the US.

00:50:25.000 I mean, everyone has a car in the UK.

00:50:27.000 No. I thought no.

00:50:28.000 I thought that people used a lot of public transportation or used more public transportation.

00:50:33.000 Yeah, but that doesn't mean they don't have cars as well, right?

00:50:36.000 I mean, I just didn't know anything about Teslas mechanically, right?

00:50:39.000 So I didn't know that they were recording all the time around them, but it's not a problem for me because I'm not going to vandalize them.

00:50:44.000 Yeah, I can pull up my phone right now.

00:50:48.000 And I can look at the cameras.

00:50:49.000 Right, right.

00:50:50.000 That's awesome.

00:50:51.000 I know.

00:50:51.000 It's pretty cool because sometimes I'm waiting for like a delivery.

00:50:53.000 Yeah. And like my car's parked up front and I'm like, let's see what happens.

00:50:57.000 They're sick.

00:50:58.000 So would that mean it's always tracking?

00:51:00.000 Like it's always recording?

00:51:01.000 Apparently, yeah.

00:51:02.000 You can turn it on and off from your cell phone.

00:51:04.000 Yeah, but like if the owners found out 30 minutes later.

00:51:07.000 Yeah, they have a security system called Sentry Mode.

00:51:10.000 So if it notices movement, it starts recording.

00:51:12.000 Oh, my phone goes off.

00:51:13.000 That's brilliant.

00:51:14.000 So if I was at the mall.

00:51:17.000 A few months ago, walking around, and my phone goes, and it's like, Tesla security alarm activated.

00:51:23.000 And then I was like, I looked, and it was nothing.

00:51:25.000 I think, like, a semi-truck drove through the parking lot, and everything shook, and then the alarm went off.

00:51:29.000 And I was like, oh, okay.

00:51:32.000 But it's pretty wild, because when you look at those Waymos and other electric cars, they got cameras everywhere.

00:51:38.000 So I would just assume if people were looking at an electric car, like a Tesla, They self-drive.

00:51:44.000 But, I guess, fair point.

00:51:45.000 I mean, these people don't pay attention.

00:51:47.000 They don't know.

00:51:47.000 It's not their world.

00:51:48.000 And they see cars, and they're like, get them.

00:51:49.000 If you're not a tech guy, why would you know?

00:51:52.000 I mean...

00:51:53.000 Well, even the other day, me and Tim were in the Cybertruck driving over to Martinsburg, and I'm just sitting at the red light waiting to take a left, kind of just zoning out.

00:52:02.000 And I look over, and there's this lady just... 0.97

00:52:04.000 Pissed. Just pointing, yelling, screaming.

00:52:07.000 I'm like, yo, Tim, check this out.

00:52:08.000 Like, we got some thumbed downs.

00:52:10.000 We got a...

00:52:10.000 That was fun.

00:52:11.000 We got a few pretty...

00:52:11.000 We were laughing.

00:52:13.000 We high-fived.

00:52:14.000 We were like, yeah!

00:52:15.000 And then we talked about how punk rock we were.

00:52:16.000 Yeah, we were super...

00:52:17.000 Did you get the stickier?

00:52:18.000 I got this after I figured out Elon was based.

00:52:21.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:52:23.000 That's what I was joking.

00:52:24.000 I was going to say.

00:52:24.000 It's like...

00:52:26.000 We parked, and I was like, if anyone comes up to me, I'm gonna be like, guys, I had no idea that Elon would be this crazy when I bought it, but that's why I did!

00:52:33.000 I just got it recently.

00:52:34.000 He's awesome!

00:52:35.000 If only I had known!

00:52:37.000 The truck gets more attention than the cars, though, because the Cybertruck does stick out so much, whereas if you're driving an S or a Y or whatever, they're...

00:52:47.000 More nondescript.

00:52:47.000 I don't get those looks in my Tesla, and I kind of wish that I had a Cybertruck just so I could.

00:52:53.000 Just put like a big Tesla sign on it.

00:52:56.000 I know, right?

00:52:56.000 There was a guy who, it was like a meme, and someone put a swastika on a Cybertruck, and then he tweeted, am I legally required to have this removed?

00:53:05.000 Well, you saw that joke I posted, and you elaborated on it.

00:53:09.000 I was like, if these people actually thought Tesla owners were Nazis, they'd be doing them favors.

00:53:14.000 I was like, we should do a skit where a neo-Nazi is in his living room watching these crazy videos of Hitler or whatever.

00:53:20.000 Then his alarm goes off on his Tesla and he runs outside and he sees him spray painting and he's like, what are you doing? 0.98

00:53:24.000 And they're like, I'm putting a swastika on your car, you Nazi. 0.95

00:53:27.000 And then he goes, thanks. 0.94

00:53:29.000 You are?

00:53:30.000 Well, thank you.

00:53:31.000 Looks great.

00:53:32.000 It looks great.

00:53:33.000 It looks great.

00:53:35.000 Although, to be honest, they don't know how to draw them, so it would be weird squiggly lines and they'd be like, you got it all wrong.

00:53:41.000 Yeah, well, here's the crazy thing.

00:53:43.000 You'd think this would stop.

00:53:45.000 With the reports of people, like, okay, I just gotta say it.

00:53:48.000 The reason why I said this proves low IQ at this point is because we've seen so many of these already that by now someone might be like, oh, they have cameras and everyone's going to prison.

00:53:59.000 That guy with the DIY four-wheeler rammed into a bunch of Cybertrucks got arrested and there's a video of him.

00:54:07.000 But it's still happening.

00:54:09.000 You know what I think?

00:54:11.000 Maybe low IQ, whatever.

00:54:13.000 It shows these people don't actually watch the news, don't pay attention.

00:54:17.000 All they know is Spaceman bad and Orange Man bad.

00:54:22.000 Or do you think that they believe that they're martyrs?

00:54:24.000 Like, oh, this is, I'm an activist.

00:54:26.000 This is, because I feel like you'd have to know now that this is not going to be tolerated.

00:54:30.000 Some of them, like, you think, Carl, that they're like, I'm going to go to jail for this.

00:54:34.000 Oh, yeah.

00:54:35.000 I mean, who's the guy who set himself in five for Palestine, right?

00:54:38.000 I don't remember his name.

00:54:39.000 No, I'm Frick.

00:54:41.000 I'm not even trying to dunk on the guy.

00:54:44.000 I just thought, oh, this is some poor brainwashed kid, right? 0.99

00:54:47.000 Who's just spent far too much time on the internet and now his parents are going to have to find out that the Palestinians don't give a shit about this guy. 1.00

00:54:55.000 I'd never heard of him. 0.99

00:54:55.000 And now he's dead and that's your kid dead. 0.99

00:54:57.000 And I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ, man.

00:54:58.000 Eric Bushman?

00:54:59.000 Whatever. But, like, the leftists, they're cheering it on, right?

00:55:02.000 And it's like, I don't know his name.

00:55:04.000 I see Phil's looking at me.

00:55:05.000 I won't say it.

00:55:06.000 I know it, but I'm not going to say it.

00:55:08.000 To me, I think, like, the martyr thing doesn't track as much as they're in a different part of their brain.

00:55:15.000 They're emotional.

00:55:15.000 You can see it written all over them.

00:55:17.000 They're not accessing the same kind of logic that other people are.

00:55:21.000 Whether that's most of the time they're in that space or just something happens when they see a cyber truck, they're not accessing their logic.

00:55:28.000 What if we took these people and we brought them somewhere perhaps like a camp where we could teach them things they don't quite understand that they missed in their education, perhaps like a re-education camp?

00:55:42.000 Would that work?

00:55:43.000 I mean, it's the only option you've got left, because these people have got nowhere else to go.

00:55:47.000 What were you saying earlier about hooking them up to AI and mapping their brain and reading and writing?

00:55:51.000 We were talking about this before the show.

00:55:54.000 I was saying that one of the challenges with Neuralink is everybody's brain is different.

00:55:59.000 We have similar structure genetically, but everyone's brain is a computer that essentially organically develops, so its variables are going to be a million times different from brain to brain.

00:56:12.000 So you're going to need AI to configure a neural link to connect to someone's brain.

00:56:17.000 So you can put the electrodes on the brain, but the brain's got to figure out how to navigate that.

00:56:21.000 The computer's got to figure out how to navigate each individual brain. 0.99

00:56:24.000 So in that regard, once we do that, and I think we're very close to it, we can rewrite their brains.

00:56:32.000 So you don't need to take...

00:56:33.000 I wasn't saying that, but I guess...

00:56:34.000 You don't need to take them to a camp.

00:56:36.000 You just bring the camp to them because technology distributes that.

00:56:40.000 I got to be honest.

00:56:41.000 As much as I don't like these psychopaths, I would not be in favor of a society that sentences people to have their brains reprogrammed by Neuralink.

00:56:49.000 That would be horrifying.

00:56:51.000 Reprogram the old-fashioned way, that's fine, just not by Neuralink.

00:56:54.000 My problem is anti-technological.

00:56:56.000 Exactly. I'm a Luddite.

00:56:58.000 We can sit them in a room, put those things on their eyes that keep them open, and play films.

00:57:02.000 Clockwork Orange, yeah.

00:57:03.000 Clockwork Orange.

00:57:04.000 All day, every day.

00:57:05.000 But don't put AI into it, because that's wrong.

00:57:08.000 What if people were given the option?

00:57:10.000 They were like, you can go to prison for 20 years for arson, or we will erase the violent tendencies using a mind probe.

00:57:19.000 They've got to do the prison.

00:57:21.000 They have to do the prison.

00:57:23.000 That's an ethical probably thing.

00:57:25.000 Exactly. There is a moral debt that incurs in every wrong that they do.

00:57:30.000 But that's illogical, isn't it?

00:57:31.000 No. They go to prison for 20 years, there's no guarantee.

00:57:34.000 They could just come out more radicalized.

00:57:35.000 I don't care.

00:57:36.000 They have to go to prison for 20 years because they did something wrong.

00:57:38.000 Okay, what if it's prison for two years with reprogramming?

00:57:40.000 Well, it depends what the crime was, right?

00:57:42.000 What if it's two years of public works where you're basically an indentured servant to the state to pay off your moral debt, and then before you start the service, they reprogram your brain to erase the...

00:57:56.000 Violent tendencies, and then you do work to fix things.

00:57:58.000 Maybe. I'm not going to legislate the exact thing now, but the point is they have to pay their debt through suffering.

00:58:04.000 I don't agree with that.

00:58:05.000 It's illogical.

00:58:06.000 It seems emotional.

00:58:07.000 I'm not saying it's not emotional, but the point is it's what they have to do.

00:58:12.000 Well, that's not an argument.

00:58:13.000 Of course it is, right?

00:58:14.000 You've hurt someone.

00:58:16.000 So is the point penalty or rehabilitation?

00:58:18.000 When has rehabilitation ever been...

00:58:21.000 That's why I'm saying if we can rewire their brain with an AI brain chip, you're done.

00:58:26.000 The thing is about rehabilitation is that it's the wrong way to look at it because it kind of acts as if they're not really responsible for what they did, right?

00:58:37.000 So if we can just change the way that you act and the way you think, then you're, you know, because then it's kind of getting on the, well, it wasn't really your fault.

00:58:45.000 There's something wrong with the way your brain was wired, rather than treating them as a moral agent who made a decision, who now has to suffer the penalty and pay the consequences.

00:58:53.000 Right, and that's kind of building off of BF Skinner behavioral psychology of there's a variable ratio reward schedule or a penal system, and the penal system actually works less.

00:59:04.000 At changing behavior than a reward or a variable ratio reward system.

00:59:08.000 So to me, it really comes down to, like, do you think they need to incur suffering more than they need to come out of whatever period you put them into as a better citizen?

00:59:21.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:22.000 Because the issue with the kind of utilitarian calculus...

00:59:26.000 Is that it makes you forget that the purpose of punishing them is to make sure they know they did something wrong and provide the catharsis for the victims of their behavior.

00:59:36.000 So how about we settle on the island?

00:59:40.000 When you commit a crime, you get sent to the island.

00:59:44.000 I don't care what's there.

00:59:45.000 That's it.

00:59:46.000 You're just there and you can't come back.

00:59:47.000 That was Australia. 0.62

00:59:51.000 That's literally what it was.

00:59:53.000 We have cameras on it this time.

00:59:54.000 See? It's been tried.

00:59:56.000 And look how successful it is.

00:59:58.000 Wasn't that Escape from L.A.?

00:59:59.000 Wasn't that the whole thing behind that?

01:00:02.000 That's how America starts as well. 0.52

01:00:04.000 We send our criminals to America. 0.98

01:00:06.000 Is that what you think?

01:00:08.000 In our story, we were the great heroes who fled.

01:00:12.000 Ah, well, there we go.

01:00:13.000 Look, in the...

01:00:16.000 With the situation of criminals and stuff like that, part of why we put criminals in jail isn't because there's any hope of reforming or anything like that.

01:00:28.000 It's just taking someone that's dangerous off the street and putting them away.

01:00:32.000 So I don't know that reform should be an actual point.

01:00:39.000 I think taking them off, if they do get reformed, great.

01:00:43.000 If they do their time and they come out and they're like, you know what?

01:00:46.000 I learned and I changed and blah, blah, blah, fine.

01:00:49.000 But I think the most important thing is taking them out of society where they're a danger.

01:00:54.000 Do you know, Carl Benjamin, why we call, people say, they see the wind turbines, they call them windmills?

01:01:03.000 Well, I mean, I assume it's going to be something to do with the fact that we used to grind flour with windmills.

01:01:08.000 Indeed. So, a treadmill.

01:01:11.000 Do you know what a treadmill is?

01:01:14.000 I have been acquainted with them in the past, but I hate them.

01:01:17.000 So, what is it?

01:01:20.000 Well, I'm going to guess it's something that used to be used to grind flour.

01:01:23.000 Indeed, it was a prison punishment.

01:01:25.000 They would put people on a giant cylinder.

01:01:27.000 With wood planks, and you'd step, and you'd keep walking forward, and it was punishment.

01:01:33.000 So if you committed a crime, they would take you, put you on it, and make you walk for hours every single day until you collapsed.

01:01:40.000 And it would be milling the flour for the rest of the community, and your hands were tied as you walked, and you couldn't stop.

01:01:47.000 It was a tread-walking mill.

01:01:49.000 That's a great idea.

01:01:50.000 And then one day, they were like, let's make one of those, because people are lazy and need to get exercise.

01:01:55.000 It's a great idea.

01:01:57.000 That's also a good idea, to be honest.

01:01:58.000 The idea was that you were paying your debt to society by doing labor for the community.

01:02:03.000 But the point being, every time you commit a crime against society, you incur a debt that you need to pay off.

01:02:09.000 I just want to give a shout-out to whoever invented the windmill, where they were like, hey, let's make this big thing that spins in the wind, rotates a gear, and then mashes up our wheat.

01:02:19.000 Watermill's more consistent.

01:02:20.000 Pretty sure that was the judge.

01:02:22.000 That's true.

01:02:22.000 Watermill. We've never advanced a water mill linguistically into anything else.

01:02:27.000 We don't say, like, you know, go buy me a water mill.

01:02:29.000 Like, we have a treadmill and we have windmills.

01:02:32.000 I do think it's funny when people look at wind turbines and they're like, windmills.

01:02:36.000 Additionally, I think it's funny when people say wind turbine as fast as they can when they're talking generally and they say wind turbine.

01:02:42.000 I'm like, winter-bine?

01:02:44.000 A wind turbine!

01:02:46.000 I just hate the fact that we're so obsessed with them.

01:02:48.000 It's like, you know, oh god, we've got to have these giant ugly things that only function like 30% of the time.

01:02:53.000 And they kill birds.

01:02:55.000 Yeah, they kill birds. 0.95

01:02:56.000 When nuclear power exists and we're constantly, you know, it runs like 99% of the time and it's so much more productive.

01:03:03.000 No one ever accused the left of being smart.

01:03:05.000 Yeah. I just want to say the...

01:03:07.000 I think it's Microsoft.

01:03:09.000 They're starting back up Three Mile Island.

01:03:11.000 When I was in the military, I worked right next to it at the 193rd.

01:03:14.000 Wow. And they're starting it back up for, I think, AI.

01:03:17.000 Really? Interesting.

01:03:20.000 It's coming back.

01:03:21.000 Yeah, what do you think about AI, Carl?

01:03:25.000 I think the genie's out of the bottle, right?

01:03:27.000 The devil's been summoned, so...

01:03:29.000 With all this Studio Ghibli stuff that's coming out, people are taking the Studio Ghibli memes.

01:03:36.000 And they're putting them into other AIs that turn them into videos.

01:03:40.000 Then you've got the AI voice generator.

01:03:43.000 I think we are, it's closer than we realize.

01:03:46.000 Because I was saying, like, in a couple years, you're going to be able to go, Disney is not going to be Disney anymore.

01:03:50.000 It's going to be an IP storage locker, basically.

01:03:54.000 So if you go on a chat GPT and you say, like, hey, make me an image of Spider-Man, I'll say, can't do that.

01:03:59.000 But if Disney pays for a license for GPT on their servers, you can.

01:04:05.000 So I think we're really close to a company like Disney.

01:04:09.000 And Disney, if you're listening, here you go.

01:04:12.000 You open up Disney +, you've got all your shows, and then it's got make your own show.

01:04:17.000 And you'll click it, and you'll say, I want to watch a Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire, but the villains, like, I want Vulture in it, and I want Venom in it.

01:04:26.000 And not Topher Grace Venom, Tom Hardy Venom.

01:04:29.000 And give me Mary Jane and Gwen, and give me like a lover's tryst.

01:04:35.000 Random, it'll generate it, and then you'll get to watch that movie.

01:04:38.000 That is going to be all entertainment.

01:04:39.000 Have you not seen Elon doing the AI video game generation?

01:04:43.000 Eventually, it's all going to be tailor-made to the individual preference.

01:04:46.000 Bespoke. But that's going to have some serious knock-on effects, right?

01:04:50.000 Because, I mean, one of the ways that we relate to one another is shared cultural experiences.

01:04:56.000 If people don't have shared cultural experiences anymore, what the hell are we going to talk about?

01:05:01.000 Yes, I refer to this as the severance phenomenon.

01:05:03.000 Oh, really?

01:05:04.000 Yes, where people desperately try to make a show happen, despite the fact that it's not succeeding.

01:05:09.000 I haven't watched this at all, but I've seen you going off on it.

01:05:12.000 So, I actually, I don't know if we need to call it the severance phenomenon, but it is a good term for society, every individual severing from every other individual.

01:05:22.000 But the issue I take with severance is that it's not a bad show, it's just not a good show.

01:05:26.000 It's like, it's on in the background, and you're like, okay, and periodically going...

01:05:30.000 What's it about, sorry?

01:05:31.000 You can...

01:05:33.000 There's a company where you sever your work personality from your personal life.

01:05:38.000 My wife told me about this.

01:05:39.000 So at work, you have no recollection of your life.

01:05:43.000 You don't know anything that's going on.

01:05:44.000 Outside of work, you have no recollection of being in work and who works with you and what you're doing.

01:05:48.000 And the show is kind of, eh.

01:05:50.000 It's one of those shows you put in the background, but everybody's raving about it.

01:05:54.000 And so they say the issue is that Apple's burning a billion dollars a year.

01:05:58.000 They're claiming to have these big award-winning shows, but for some reason nobody will watch them.

01:06:01.000 And I'm like, yes, okay, it's not succeeding.

01:06:04.000 They argue that it's because the water cooler effect.

01:06:07.000 You need a show where people the next day at work go to each other and say, did you watch this show?

01:06:13.000 There's two problems here.

01:06:14.000 Remote working.

01:06:15.000 People are not at work anymore.

01:06:17.000 So they're not talking about these things with each other.

01:06:20.000 The other issue is, as you mentioned, everyone's getting a tailor-made cultural experience.

01:06:26.000 So for Apple to produce this show with a massive budget, You need a certain amount of individuals to pay into it.

01:06:35.000 It may be a good show, but not enough people like it to sustain it because, well, let's be honest.

01:06:42.000 Some people watching this show right now probably don't watch any TV shows.

01:06:45.000 They literally just watch Timcast videos because I produce five hours per day of content.

01:06:50.000 It's nuts.

01:06:50.000 You say I'm losing my voice?

01:06:52.000 Yeah. It's five hours.

01:06:53.000 I'm not even kidding.

01:06:53.000 Now we're doing the hour show on the Rumble mornings and I just add another hour in the day.

01:06:58.000 I'll probably explode at some point.

01:07:00.000 I did warn you about burnout, didn't I?

01:07:03.000 But it's not burnout, it's physical exhaustion.

01:07:05.000 I didn't mean, yeah, it could be literally anything.

01:07:08.000 But it's okay because I get NAD every two weeks, which is, you know, immortality serum, which just, that's the secret, I guess.

01:07:15.000 I'm actually half kidding.

01:07:16.000 But to your point about this cultural discohesion or whatever the word would be, the more we get into a decentralization of culture...

01:07:27.000 The epic works, the AAA games, the blockbuster movies will cease to exist.

01:07:32.000 Everything's going to go low budget.

01:07:34.000 AI is going to help pick up the slack to a certain degree.

01:07:37.000 But, I mean, look at these movies that come out of Netflix.

01:07:39.000 They're not the big blockbusters anymore.

01:07:41.000 Look at the risk they took with Snow White.

01:07:44.000 Massive bomb.

01:07:45.000 $600 million estimated in reshoots, in the initial budget reshoots and marketing.

01:07:50.000 And it's made $92 million.

01:07:52.000 It's not expected to make back any of its money.

01:07:54.000 Rachel Zegler...

01:07:56.000 92 million so far internationally.

01:07:58.000 With the name Snow White attached to it.

01:08:01.000 It had a lot of problems.

01:08:03.000 Yeah, I believe it.

01:08:05.000 But let's break this down.

01:08:06.000 What were the problems?

01:08:07.000 Rachel Zegler's cultural identity is an affront to a large portion of Americans. 1.00

01:08:12.000 And the film was trying to avoid being ableist with the dwarves. 0.97

01:08:17.000 So incorporating the seven bandits.

01:08:20.000 But then everyone got offended by that.

01:08:21.000 So they tried to do it every way possible.

01:08:24.000 They said, okay.

01:08:25.000 We need the nostalgia factor.

01:08:27.000 So we gotta do the dwarves.

01:08:29.000 No, but we can't because ableists do CGI little gremlin things. 0.99

01:08:33.000 Okay, but what about the people who are still gonna get mad?

01:08:35.000 Then put bandits in it instead.

01:08:37.000 Okay, well now they did both.

01:08:39.000 Quite literally, both.

01:08:40.000 There's the seven bandits and the seven dwarves. 1.00

01:08:42.000 Which makes no sense.

01:08:42.000 There's no prince anymore because princes are offensive.

01:08:45.000 Disney tried to make a film that would somehow latch onto every cultural identity in this country and they got nothing for it.

01:08:52.000 So as...

01:08:53.000 We talk about the culture war.

01:08:55.000 That's the big picture of the left and the right.

01:08:57.000 At the base, look at video games.

01:09:00.000 Video games can't muster up the same audiences anymore.

01:09:02.000 They're getting released fewer and far between.

01:09:07.000 In order to make a massive production, you need a massive amount of people to lend their resources to that production.

01:09:14.000 It's not happening anymore.

01:09:17.000 I think, to your point of what you were saying, once we get into this AI-generated entertainment world, which we're already almost there with video games, imagine you've got Baldur's Gate.

01:09:26.000 Take the code of Baldur's Gate, load it into an AI, and then say, give me a new version of this with new characters and a new story.

01:09:34.000 It breaks the whole thing down and then rewrites a new version of it just for you.

01:09:38.000 Who will you talk to about it?

01:09:40.000 Nobody. Who would care?

01:09:41.000 Right. Who would care?

01:09:42.000 There'd be nothing, oh, this interesting thing happened in my AI-generated game.

01:09:46.000 Okay, so in mine as well.

01:09:47.000 It's like explaining a dream to somebody.

01:09:49.000 There's no shared value or principles embedded into the story to talk about either.

01:09:53.000 But also it kind of goes around the...

01:09:56.000 There's a real problem with just AI-generated content anyway, which is on almost a kind of spiritual level, which is...

01:10:02.000 Whenever you're...

01:10:04.000 The purpose of all art is to transmit a message, and it's to tell the other person who's receiving it something about the human condition.

01:10:13.000 And this is what me and Phil were talking about just before the podcast.

01:10:17.000 Music is algorithmic, but...

01:10:20.000 There's always something human in the music that makes you want to listen to it, right?

01:10:24.000 You know, some story in the song that makes you want to pay attention.

01:10:28.000 So that's the author of that looking into your soul and saying, I know something about you, and I'm going to show you something about me.

01:10:35.000 And AI destroys that completely.

01:10:37.000 It's not just AI.

01:10:38.000 This is why multiculturalism doesn't work. 0.98

01:10:40.000 Have you ever seen the videos on YouTube just for laughs, gags?

01:10:45.000 No. So they are videos.

01:10:48.000 You've seen them, Cody, right?

01:10:49.000 So one example is a little girl, and she has a table with four buckets full of coins.

01:10:55.000 And she waves to somebody.

01:10:57.000 She points at the buckets.

01:10:59.000 The guy looks over, walks over.

01:11:01.000 She then grabs two of the buckets, and they're very light, and she puts them down.

01:11:04.000 And then she shrugs at the guy and goes, and then she points over there to another location.

01:11:09.000 He turns around, and when she does, they spin the whole cart around.

01:11:12.000 She then grabs the ones that appeared to be on the other side and walks with them, and then the guy tries to grab the coins, and he can't, and he's looking at her.

01:11:18.000 So they're gags, right?

01:11:20.000 There's no speech.

01:11:22.000 It's just literally goofy sounds in the background.

01:11:25.000 There's laughing and goofy music.

01:11:27.000 They do this because it's appealing to every person in the world.

01:11:32.000 Anybody can watch that and understand the gag, even if they don't know the language.

01:11:36.000 So what we're getting now with movies that try to sell internationally is everything's being reduced to the lowest common denominator.

01:11:44.000 So you mentioned...

01:11:46.000 You know, when it comes to music, it's conveying a message.

01:11:48.000 Pretty sure Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter conveys no message at all.

01:11:54.000 I don't know.

01:11:55.000 There is a message in there.

01:11:56.000 It's just not a very good one, right?

01:11:58.000 Right, but to be fair, yes, there is a message, but it's rudimentary at best.

01:12:02.000 It's appealing to the downgrade.

01:12:04.000 That's what it is.

01:12:05.000 Well, it's appealing to the most amount of people, so it has to be extremely lowest common denominator.

01:12:13.000 So it's...

01:12:15.000 You know, the average person's kind of like, I get nothing from this.

01:12:19.000 Actually, I take that back.

01:12:20.000 A large portion of the population say, this is crass and I get nothing from this.

01:12:24.000 But in general, enough people go, switch it up like Nintendo.

01:12:29.000 I mean, vulgar culture appeals to vulgar people, right?

01:12:33.000 And that's been the way things have always been.

01:12:36.000 And that's fine.

01:12:38.000 You can have the AI slop for the vulgar crowd.

01:12:40.000 That's fine.

01:12:41.000 Let them eat the trough if they want, right?

01:12:43.000 But it also...

01:12:45.000 It's this constant leveling down effect in all arts.

01:12:49.000 And it's not just music, it's computer games, it's movies, it's literature.

01:12:53.000 When it can all be generated by AI, then it's going to become that you will pay over the odds for something that isn't particularly good but was made sincerely by a human being.

01:13:04.000 Here's the best part.

01:13:07.000 How do they train?

01:13:09.000 So Surge brought this up last week or two weeks ago.

01:13:13.000 AI can't make an image of a wine glass filled to the brim.

01:13:18.000 It's because there are no images of wine glasses filled to the brim on the internet.

01:13:22.000 All the wine glasses, you know.

01:13:24.000 It also can't make images of clocks except for, I think it's something like 1107 or 1007.

01:13:32.000 1007, all analog clocks.

01:13:33.000 When you go into any AI image generator and say make an image of a clock at...

01:13:38.000 5.15pm, it'll always put the hands at the exact same places, and it'll tell you it's not.

01:13:43.000 And the reason is because of the amalgam of images it's trained off of.

01:13:48.000 What happens when we start making movies, music, and video games and art from AI and publishing it, and then the AI re-ingests that art back into itself?

01:13:59.000 The same thing that happens when you cannibalize it.

01:14:03.000 Species, right?

01:14:04.000 You start getting...

01:14:05.000 No, no, really, you get...

01:14:05.000 Necrotizing, fasciitis, or...

01:14:07.000 Pryon diseases, and all this sort of stuff.

01:14:08.000 Cephalitis. Yeah, yeah, all these sort of things.

01:14:10.000 It's going to be the artistic equivalent of that.

01:14:12.000 Yep. So what'll happen is, the way I used to describe the AI future is that 50 years from now, everyone will be wearing a corn costume.

01:14:22.000 But that's normal clothes.

01:14:24.000 They'll go to the grocery store.

01:14:26.000 Everything's corn or corn derivative.

01:14:27.000 They'll go to Old Navy.

01:14:29.000 Everything is corn.

01:14:31.000 It's just corn suits.

01:14:32.000 And for a person in the past, like, why is everybody wearing corn?

01:14:36.000 Because the United States subsidizes corn and uses corn products for everything.

01:14:40.000 So a rudimentary AI that was learning about what people wanted would be like, there is a disproportionate amount of corn production and corn derivatives in everything.

01:14:49.000 So what it would do is it would start to prioritize Corn for production, for art, for fashion.

01:14:55.000 And then after 50 years, you know, two generations go by.

01:14:59.000 All that matters is corn.

01:15:00.000 Because the AI is just blasting it out.

01:15:03.000 It's the paperclip maximizer put on attire.

01:15:07.000 Right. Yeah.

01:15:09.000 Yeah, paperclip.

01:15:10.000 That was the other analogy for it, right?

01:15:12.000 Yeah, the paperclip maximizer where it will, you know, it won't see any consequence to what it's trying to do.

01:15:19.000 It'll just...

01:15:20.000 Take even the atoms and just turn everything into a paperclip.

01:15:24.000 As a way of saying, it doesn't understand the impact.

01:15:27.000 You give it a clear goal.

01:15:29.000 It'll pave over other things that you want to keep intact.

01:15:34.000 Have you ever seen the game, the paperclip maximizing gain?

01:15:37.000 I've heard of it, I think.

01:15:39.000 But the issue is that human beings are being retrained by their own algorithms.

01:15:43.000 Like Jack Doris is a really great example.

01:15:45.000 He starts Twitter.

01:15:46.000 He's the free speech wing of the free speech party.

01:15:48.000 Then, on his own platform, there's this recursive loop of wokeness because it generates rage.

01:15:55.000 Rage gets shares.

01:15:56.000 He then turns into this woke, impaired individual who believes he's consumed his own refuse from his own machine. 0.73

01:16:06.000 And it altered his mind to the point where we had that Joe Rogan episode and he genuinely didn't understand his own biases.

01:16:13.000 Humans are going to be reprogrammed by the AI.

01:16:17.000 Then program the AI in turn and create a recursive loop which will be a spiral down a toilet.

01:16:24.000 Yeah, that's the thing that we've actually been seeing a lot is people conform to the technology, whether it's a bicycle or a phone.

01:16:32.000 Your posture conforms to it.

01:16:34.000 Your mind conforms to it.

01:16:37.000 I think it's going to be picking up over the next five to ten years.

01:16:41.000 You mentioned the spiritual element.

01:16:47.000 For me, culture has always been there's a shared story and impregnated into that story are values that we can sense.

01:16:55.000 You don't even need to be trained on story to sense it.

01:16:57.000 And as that starts to degrade, I don't know if this is causation or correlation, but we're starting to see that severance happening.

01:17:05.000 Severance, right?

01:17:07.000 All comes back to this show.

01:17:10.000 But yeah, I think you're completely correct.

01:17:12.000 Let's talk about Snow White.

01:17:14.000 So Forbes has a story.

01:17:15.000 Yes, Snow White is bombing at the box office.

01:17:18.000 It is one of the lowest rated films on IMDb.

01:17:22.000 And in a crazy turn of events, Rachel Zegler is getting roasted by the son of the producer of the film because he had to fly to New York City to reprimand her because she's burning the film to the ground and they need the money.

01:17:35.000 So he wrote this long response.

01:17:38.000 Someone said, your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress.

01:17:41.000 Any words on this?

01:17:42.000 Because that's creepy as hell and uncalled for.

01:17:45.000 People have the right to free speech.

01:17:46.000 No shame on your father.

01:17:48.000 And did you really want to do this?

01:17:49.000 Yeah, my dad, the producer of an enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20-year-old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie, for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for.

01:18:04.000 This is called adult responsibility and accountability, and her actions clearly hurt the film's box office.

01:18:10.000 Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions.

01:18:14.000 Tens of thousands of people worked in that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires, at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue-collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful.

01:18:24.000 Well, you hired her, man.

01:18:29.000 Or your dad hired her.

01:18:30.000 I agreed.

01:18:31.000 When you look at her tweets, it's like, was it a secret?

01:18:34.000 Yeah. You knew what you were getting.

01:18:35.000 Yep. And they deserve it.

01:18:36.000 They thought this was popular.

01:18:38.000 They thought she represented young people and they didn't want to see it.

01:18:42.000 And they were wrong.

01:18:43.000 So get woke, go broke.

01:18:44.000 I hope the $600 million loss was worth it.

01:18:47.000 There's something about this that I think goes beyond the woke stuff as well.

01:18:52.000 Because my wife loves Disney films.

01:18:57.000 In a sort of mythological, romantic way.

01:19:00.000 My wife thinks of Disney films the way I think of the Iliad.

01:19:04.000 These to her are like character-forming movies because of the value setting.

01:19:08.000 Function that they have.

01:19:09.000 You know, they tell this big mystical fairy tale where there are, you know, there is a perfect world and a perfect story that always plays to the end.

01:19:17.000 And I think that there are people who are genuinely emotionally traumatized by what they're doing to these films.

01:19:25.000 Because I took my son to his boxing lesson the other day, right?

01:19:28.000 And we ride our bikes down to this boxing lesson.

01:19:30.000 On the way back, we go past a bus stop.

01:19:32.000 And in this bus stop is a Snow White advert.

01:19:35.000 But someone has vandalized it.

01:19:37.000 But it's literally sprayed, painted onto it, boycott.

01:19:40.000 And it's like, wow.

01:19:41.000 Is that some guy from 4chan who's got...

01:19:43.000 He's not going to do that.

01:19:45.000 Or is that someone who was like my wife? 0.99

01:19:48.000 Like, you know, like a mother who's really pissed off about Snow White is being perverted and degraded by Disney as a company.

01:19:56.000 Like, I don't know.

01:19:57.000 I don't know who did it.

01:19:57.000 But like, it's just...

01:20:00.000 In the middle of, like, a town in England.

01:20:02.000 Someone is so pissed off about this.

01:20:04.000 They went and vandalized the bus.

01:20:06.000 I've never seen that before.

01:20:06.000 I didn't boycott Snow White.

01:20:08.000 I just didn't want to see it.

01:20:10.000 Yeah, same.

01:20:11.000 It's just no interest to me at all.

01:20:12.000 But it doesn't hold a kind of romantic position in my heart.

01:20:15.000 Whereas for a lot of young women, I think it does. 0.95

01:20:18.000 It also, I mean, these newer remakes of older films, it doesn't feel like they're after the same kind of value setting.

01:20:25.000 It really seems virtue signaling and shallow.

01:20:29.000 It doesn't have the same kind of weight underneath.

01:20:34.000 Let's take a look at what Snow White was.

01:20:37.000 You get this Rachel Zegler doing press where she's mocking Snow White, the movie itself, saying a guy basically stalks her and then she marries him.

01:20:46.000 Like, huh, kind of creepy, right?

01:20:48.000 She's not trying to find her prince.

01:20:51.000 She's trying to be the leader she knows she can be.

01:20:54.000 You guys know the story of Snow White?

01:20:57.000 Vaguely. It is the least inspiring hero's story ever told.

01:21:01.000 It's not a hero's story.

01:21:02.000 Snow White is a victim the whole time.

01:21:04.000 Literally, the main character is just the victim of a story of a fumbling, bumbling queen who kills herself.

01:21:09.000 So the story for Snow White, simply put, Snow White's parents are dead.

01:21:13.000 She's a maid. 1.00

01:21:14.000 She's the princess.

01:21:16.000 The evil queen is like, ha ha, oh no, Snow White's coming of age and she's going to be prettier than me. 1.00

01:21:20.000 I'm going to hire a guy to kill her. 1.00

01:21:22.000 The guy brings in the woods and says, I can't do it. 1.00

01:21:23.000 Get out of here.

01:21:24.000 She runs into the woods.

01:21:25.000 The animals dance and sing.

01:21:26.000 She finds a dwarf's house, cleans it up, becomes their maid, still a maid. 1.00

01:21:30.000 They all dance and sing.

01:21:32.000 The queen finds out she didn't die.

01:21:33.000 So she poisons an apple, sneaks by, tricks her into eating it.

01:21:37.000 Snow White passes out.

01:21:38.000 Then the queen goes on top of a mountain to try and push a boulder, gets struck by lightning and dies.

01:21:42.000 And then the prince finds Snow White, kisses her, and she wakes up and they're happily ever after.

01:21:46.000 Snow White literally did nothing the whole movie. 1.00

01:21:51.000 You'd be looking at this through the lens of a man.

01:21:53.000 Exactly. But what my point is, Rachel Zegler said, no, she's the hero of the story.

01:21:59.000 She unifies the bandits.

01:22:01.000 She saves the guy from the dungeon and then calls out the queen and restores the kingdom.

01:22:06.000 That's not what Snow White was.

01:22:08.000 Snow White was just some chick who was being chased around and then passed out. 1.00

01:22:12.000 You're saying that no one wants to...

01:22:14.000 See a story about, like, a guy chasing the girl.

01:22:16.000 It's like, sorry, no, that's all of female romance. 0.90

01:22:20.000 That's Twilight, that's Fifty Shades of Grey.

01:22:23.000 Twilight actually was two guys.

01:22:24.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

01:22:26.000 That's literally Snow White.

01:22:28.000 It's literally all of female romance. 0.72

01:22:30.000 That's the female hero story. 1.00

01:22:32.000 Oh, yeah.

01:22:32.000 What about, what's your face with the long hair?

01:22:34.000 Well, that's because the guy goes and he's like, put on your hair, I want to come bang it.

01:22:38.000 That's the woman's story, is that the guy pursues her because she's so important. 1.00

01:22:43.000 Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pagiot had a really good breakdown of what the original story is about, with the older woman seeing a younger beauty, and at first...

01:22:55.000 Is that the one, or is it Sleeping Beauty, where she gives her a mirror? 0.85

01:23:02.000 Well, there's the mirror on the wall that tells the queen that, ah, you're good looking, but sleeping...

01:23:07.000 But it's a similar trope.

01:23:09.000 Sleeping Beauty, like, she gets cursed to sleep at a certain age.

01:23:12.000 I can't remember.

01:23:13.000 I'm not a girl.

01:23:14.000 I didn't watch these things.

01:23:16.000 I was watching Undercats.

01:23:18.000 To be honest, yeah, like, all these stories are, like, the prince comes and kisses her and then she wakes up.

01:23:22.000 Right. And that's fine.

01:23:24.000 You know, I'm not heartbroken that they've perverted it, but I can see why a lot of people are.

01:23:29.000 But this is the thing, right?

01:23:30.000 There's this meme about the male power fantasy.

01:23:33.000 And the meme they use is Spider-Man.

01:23:35.000 He's got the busload of children and Mary Jane.

01:23:38.000 He's holding them both.

01:23:39.000 And then Green Goblin is like, who will it be?

01:23:41.000 Spider-Man?

01:23:42.000 Mary Jane?

01:23:43.000 Or suffer the children?

01:23:44.000 And then he saves them both.

01:23:45.000 He actually saves everybody.

01:23:46.000 And he's like, no!

01:23:47.000 And then he defeats the bad guy.

01:23:49.000 That's the male power fantasy.

01:23:50.000 You've got a great Green Goblin voice.

01:23:52.000 And then the female power fantasy is that all the guys want you no matter what. 1.00

01:23:57.000 So in Twilight, Bella...

01:23:59.000 Doesn't that mean pretty or something?

01:24:01.000 It means beautiful in Italian.

01:24:02.000 It's literally her name and there's a vampire and he saves her from getting hit by a car and he's like, you're just so pretty.

01:24:08.000 I have to have you.

01:24:09.000 And then the werewolf is like, no, I have to have her.

01:24:11.000 Now we fight.

01:24:12.000 And that's Twilight.

01:24:14.000 With shirts being taken off.

01:24:16.000 It speaks to what, you know, women have an inherent value and that is the fact that they can make more people and men have to go out. 0.99

01:24:25.000 Into the world and do something to prove that they are of value.

01:24:30.000 And that's every single story, whether it be about women or about men.

01:24:36.000 The hero's journey is the man's activity.

01:24:39.000 Women's value in society is they're desired by men because they hold the key to more humans. 1.00

01:24:48.000 Notice how in the women's story, the sort of question is... 1.00

01:24:53.000 Is she truly as intrinsically desirable as she was hoping she would be?

01:24:58.000 And the man proves that she is through the labors that he goes through.

01:25:02.000 There's a symbiosis in the stories as well.

01:25:04.000 Do you actually know what Twilight's about?

01:25:06.000 Have you ever seen it?

01:25:07.000 I've heard about it.

01:25:09.000 It's literally that Bella has something within her that all of the vampires want. 0.67

01:25:14.000 And they look at her and they're like shaking.

01:25:18.000 She just stands there and she's like, they want her.

01:25:21.000 Pheromones. That's the combination. 0.66

01:25:24.000 That's how male and female stories interact, as you were saying.

01:25:28.000 I've got to read the super chat in this segment because it's a fair point.

01:25:31.000 Shaker Silver says, You're undervaluing Snow White's heroism.

01:25:33.000 The hunter spared her from seeing her kindness and helping animals.

01:25:38.000 She tames the unruly dwarves who take on the evil queen. 1.00

01:25:40.000 It's a tale of heroic femininity.

01:25:42.000 Yeah, actually, yeah.

01:25:44.000 She cleans their house and gets these scummy dwarves in order and gets their life together. 1.00

01:25:50.000 You know?

01:25:51.000 Respect. But that's the woman's role traditionally in society, isn't it? 1.00

01:25:55.000 It's to order the domestic sphere.

01:25:56.000 Yeah. So men will sit around in piles of their own... 1.00

01:25:59.000 Men are barbaric. 0.85

01:26:00.000 Yeah, men are literally barbaric. 0.99

01:26:02.000 Absolutely. I was when I was a single man.

01:26:03.000 I was a total barbaric.

01:26:04.000 You were.

01:26:04.000 We all were, right?

01:26:05.000 So it's actually pretty funny because...

01:26:07.000 I was hanging out with my wife.

01:26:10.000 I can't remember what she was watching.

01:26:11.000 Probably Married to Strangers.

01:26:13.000 Women love that show. 1.00

01:26:14.000 You know that one?

01:26:15.000 Love at First Sight.

01:26:17.000 90 Day Fiance.

01:26:18.000 Whatever. It's like women just love. 1.00

01:26:19.000 And we were talking about something.

01:26:22.000 And I can't remember what happened in the news. 0.99

01:26:24.000 And then I made a comment like, well, you know, that's why women are crazy. 1.00

01:26:28.000 That's what they say. 1.00

01:26:29.000 And then she was like, men are crazy. 0.99

01:26:31.000 And then I laughed. 0.98

01:26:32.000 I was like, oh yeah?

01:26:33.000 And then I looked out the window and Mike was skating.

01:26:35.000 Special Mike, one of our writers.

01:26:37.000 And I was like, yeah, you're right. 0.99

01:26:39.000 Actually, guys are nuts. 0.95

01:26:40.000 The guys here are jumping off buildings and Mike smacked himself in the face and had to get stitches. 0.97

01:26:46.000 And I'm like, that's actually true. 0.98

01:26:48.000 Men and women are both crazy for different reasons. 0.92

01:26:50.000 My wife's favorite hobby is finding me just a... 1.00

01:26:53.000 A video of a guy doing something retarded. 0.97

01:26:55.000 It's like, you know, some guy's jumping off a roof into a swimming pool or something. 0.61

01:26:59.000 And it's like, why do men do this?

01:27:00.000 I'm like...

01:27:02.000 It's hard to explain.

01:27:04.000 There is a reason, though.

01:27:06.000 It's kind of badass.

01:27:08.000 It's the search for glory, right?

01:27:09.000 That's actually what it is.

01:27:10.000 It's glorious.

01:27:11.000 If you pull it off, then you're incredible.

01:27:14.000 And if you don't, you've broken something and it's going to really hurt.

01:27:16.000 You could say the same thing.

01:27:17.000 Men don't ever take pictures like this.

01:27:21.000 There's a video I saw of a guy doing parkour.

01:27:25.000 And he's on a building probably 15 feet tall.

01:27:27.000 This is nuts.

01:27:28.000 He jumps a 30-foot gap.

01:27:30.000 And there's an I-beam and he kicks it and then backflips, lands on the ground in front of like 30 other guys who all start screaming and cheering.

01:27:38.000 And then in the video, he's like, I pulled it off the world record for whatever this move is called.

01:27:43.000 And then the next clip is him showing his broken ankle.

01:27:46.000 He was like, this was the result.

01:27:48.000 It's purple and swollen.

01:27:49.000 And I was thinking about it because as skateboarders, you land the trick, you ride away uninjured.

01:27:54.000 Maybe the board breaks, you ride away, you're fine.

01:27:56.000 But for a lot of these guys that are jumping off buildings doing parkour, They land it, but literally break their ankles and get injured in the process.

01:28:03.000 There was one the other day where some British parkour guy was climbing a bridge in Spain.

01:28:08.000 He's like 150 feet up.

01:28:10.000 Just falls off and that's him dead.

01:28:11.000 Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:28:12.000 And it's just like, okay, well... 1.00

01:28:15.000 Guys are nuts! 1.00

01:28:15.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:28:16.000 Was it Danny Wei jumped the Great Wall of China on a skateboard?

01:28:22.000 Sprained his ankles, went back and did it again because it was so awesome?

01:28:26.000 Yeah, well, also, Danny Way is the dude who, at the X Games, went on the mega ramp, which is a 70-foot gap going 50 miles an hour, a 20-foot tall vert wall launching him 28 feet on top, so he's 50 feet in the air.

01:28:40.000 He comes down and his ankles hit the top of the ramp and he front flips, slams on the ground, gets carted out injured, broken, I think he broke his foot, Goes back up, does it again, and successfully lands.

01:28:52.000 Yeah, that was Jake Brown at the X Games.

01:28:54.000 But yeah, he pretty much fell off of a building.

01:28:56.000 You thinking of Danny Way?

01:28:57.000 Danny Way clipped his ankles on the edge of the quarter pipe and front flipped.

01:29:01.000 Okay, do you remember the one where Jake Brown slammed a flat?

01:29:04.000 Jake Brown launched off the wall, ejecting off it, fell 48 feet.

01:29:08.000 Lacerated his liver and busted his stuff.

01:29:10.000 He didn't come back, though.

01:29:11.000 No, but he still walked off.

01:29:12.000 He walked off.

01:29:13.000 It's like, they're not skateboarders.

01:29:15.000 These guys are stuntmen.

01:29:16.000 The dudes that are doing that type of stuff, that's ungodly.

01:29:18.000 The Danny Way one was when he was coming back down off a 540 and his ankles hit.

01:29:23.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:29:24.000 He goes forward.

01:29:24.000 Jesus. He flips over and everyone's like, I think that might have been the same time as Jake Brown.

01:29:29.000 It might have been the same event.

01:29:30.000 He flips over and slams and slides down, gets up, goes back up, does it again.

01:29:36.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:29:37.000 Yeah, everyone's like...

01:29:38.000 And apparently he said, like, yeah, my foot was broken, but I had to do it.

01:29:42.000 There's something cool about it, man.

01:29:43.000 It's just badass.

01:29:45.000 I've interviewed Danny Way and Paul Cech, who's his trainer, after they had to rehabilitate him.

01:29:52.000 And you could just sense, he was just like, yeah, my body will get better, but, you know, I'll get back to it.

01:29:57.000 There's something just different in the wiring.

01:30:00.000 Well, you have to be, dude. 0.99

01:30:01.000 You have to be a little crazy. 0.99

01:30:02.000 I would imagine. 0.97

01:30:04.000 I think I have the video.

01:30:06.000 Oh, yeah, dude.

01:30:08.000 Oh, yeah, dude.

01:30:09.000 Let's play it.

01:30:10.000 Let's play it.

01:30:15.000 What do we got here?

01:30:16.000 We got a backflip.

01:30:19.000 That was for a 540.

01:30:22.000 Oh, my God.

01:30:24.000 He hit his ankles on the coping and front flip to the ground.

01:30:28.000 Dude. Yo, he gets back up and he goes and does it again.

01:30:31.000 Oh, my God.

01:30:34.000 Here's another angle of it. 0.99

01:30:37.000 So, you know, when I was talking to my wife and we were like, you know, women are crazy. 1.00

01:30:40.000 She was like, guys are crazy. 0.97

01:30:42.000 I thought for a second and like...

01:30:43.000 Mike just went to the hospital for bashing his face.

01:30:46.000 I'm like, yeah, she's right.

01:30:48.000 Have you heard of the theory?

01:30:51.000 Kurt Doolittle talks about this, where there's the masculine neurology and the feminine neurology that evolved over time.

01:30:57.000 And he even says that the left comes from the feminine neurology, the right comes from the masculine.

01:31:02.000 But the masculine neurology, it's positive forces being able to protect.

01:31:07.000 It's negative forces, violence.

01:31:08.000 The feminine neurology, it's positive forces, nurturing. 1.00

01:31:12.000 It's negative.

01:31:13.000 Force is coercion, because for the feminine, it's typically smaller. 1.00

01:31:19.000 That's how it has to kind of do what it does.

01:31:22.000 So back to the Snow White thing, that is pretty interesting that from that lens, what she has to do to kind of arrive at that kind of ending of the film.

01:31:33.000 It kind of follows that train of the feminine neurology. 0.83

01:31:35.000 I mean, I think that's an accurate description either way, right?

01:31:38.000 Because that's very clearly what we're watching.

01:31:41.000 You know, the feminine left. 0.97

01:31:42.000 There's the devouring mother that wants to consume all of our societies and make sure that no one has any freedom of their own. 1.00

01:31:49.000 And the problem is that this is why I was criticizing the Trump administration.

01:31:53.000 They're being a bit too much of the aggressive man, whereas what they need to be is the father. 0.95

01:31:57.000 They need to take on the responsible role of the father, not posting memes shitting on the left. 0.98

01:32:01.000 So, puns shitting on the left. 0.99

01:32:03.000 Yes. No, no, you're right. 0.97

01:32:06.000 Yeah, punning the left.

01:32:08.000 Punning the left.

01:32:09.000 But, like, you know, posting memes is too adolescent, you know what I mean?

01:32:13.000 They need to be the respectable father.

01:32:15.000 There was a response that said, why is a Zoomer running the White House account?

01:32:19.000 Yeah. I mean, it's a great question.

01:32:22.000 Hilarious. You know, they should have genuine, like...

01:32:27.000 You could put the fear of the father into the left, and that would essentially make them back down.

01:32:32.000 But at the same time, make them feel like the right person is in charge.

01:32:36.000 Because by winding them up, what you're signaling to them is, no, it's just your brother is in charge, right?

01:32:42.000 And he's going to needle you now and make your life a living hell.

01:32:45.000 And that's not responsible, right?

01:32:47.000 And that's not the end of the story.

01:32:49.000 That's the problem.

01:32:50.000 That doesn't put a cap on the end of it.

01:32:51.000 It's not a foot forward towards harmony or cohesion.

01:32:54.000 Exactly. Yeah, I feel you.

01:32:56.000 Well, the adults were supposed to be back in charge when Biden got elected, and boy were they not.

01:33:01.000 They were asleep.

01:33:02.000 Yeah, and worse.

01:33:04.000 That's one of the reasons that Trump won the resounding victory, right?

01:33:07.000 Everyone actually wanted to put the adults back in charge.

01:33:10.000 So I'd like to see them pivot more to a more mature perspective at this point.

01:33:14.000 You know, Trump has, to a great degree, he's not the same man he was in 2016.

01:33:19.000 I know, I know.

01:33:20.000 That was a big issue, and I said that all the time back then, because I was still supporting the Democratic Party up to 2020.

01:33:26.000 One of the stories I like to tell was that when I went to Glenn Beck's studio, my Uber driver on the way there, we were talking, he's like, where are you going?

01:33:34.000 He's like, oh, I'm going to do this thing with Glenn Beck, and he's like, oh, cool, cool.

01:33:37.000 He's like, yeah, I'm kind of independent. 0.84

01:33:40.000 He's like, I like Trump, but man, I wish you would shut up. 0.91

01:33:45.000 And he was like a Latino guy, and I was like, I started laughing, I was like, yup. 1.00

01:33:49.000 But he toned it down.

01:33:50.000 And so after 2020, or mid-2020, I was in favor of the Democrats.

01:33:56.000 They booted Tulsi and Bernie and Yang. 0.99

01:33:58.000 And I was like, this party sucks. 0.99

01:34:00.000 So I'm going for Trump. 1.00

01:34:01.000 Because there's nothing they're offering, Biden.

01:34:04.000 And after this, Trump went through some heavy stuff.

01:34:09.000 He came back a bit calmer.

01:34:11.000 He still goes after them.

01:34:13.000 He still insults them.

01:34:13.000 But he's a bit more serious about it.

01:34:15.000 But the problem isn't Trump himself, right?

01:34:17.000 The problem is the people around Trump, who, again, I all like, they're just flush with the victory, and they're feeling their oats, and it's like, okay, that's great, but you need to rein yourselves in.

01:34:31.000 You need to show that kind of backbone to restrain your own...

01:34:34.000 Yeah, that's funny, but also...

01:34:58.000 It's not responsible.

01:35:00.000 It's bro-y, isn't it? 0.97

01:35:01.000 It's too bro-y. 0.78

01:35:02.000 It's very young man and not enough dad.

01:35:04.000 Exactly. And it's really pissing them off, and it's freaking them out.

01:35:08.000 And it's not reassuring everyone that the adults are actually back in charge.

01:35:12.000 But we want Canada.

01:35:15.000 I don't know why you do, but it's just going to be another blue state.

01:35:19.000 Why would you want Canada?

01:35:21.000 Greenland's a group.

01:35:21.000 Well, I didn't say we'd give them political representation.

01:35:24.000 Okay, well, that's a different story.

01:35:26.000 That's a different story.

01:35:27.000 Dude, I've been saying, I never got more death threats than when I jokingly said, we will take Canada.

01:35:33.000 It was nuts.

01:35:35.000 Alison was like, what did you do?

01:35:36.000 Because we're getting slammed by death threats.

01:35:39.000 Security companies getting concerned.

01:35:40.000 And I was like, I don't know, what are they saying?

01:35:42.000 They're like, they're mad that you want Canada.

01:35:44.000 And I was like, oh yeah.

01:35:46.000 I'm not happy to boot this.

01:35:47.000 I said we were going to destroy their economy so that we can annex them and then take away their political representation.

01:35:52.000 Was it Canadians getting mad?

01:35:54.000 Yes. No doubt.

01:35:55.000 Canadians were sending death threats. 0.89

01:35:57.000 Wow. Yeah.

01:35:58.000 They're usually very polite.

01:35:59.000 Unbecoming of them.

01:36:00.000 Very much.

01:36:01.000 This is the point though, isn't it?

01:36:03.000 It's freaking them out to the extent where Canadians are sending death threats.

01:36:07.000 Do you think any of it, and this is a genuine question, do you think any of it is...

01:36:12.000 Using those kinds of tactics to call attention to certain arrangements between us and other countries.

01:36:18.000 I don't doubt that that's part of Trump's strategy.

01:36:21.000 But it's not the only way of achieving that goal.

01:36:24.000 Right, right.

01:36:24.000 It's not the only way you can get people to focus on...

01:36:26.000 No, and every time you make a decision, you're weighing up...

01:36:31.000 It costs some benefits, right?

01:36:32.000 And, yeah, the benefit is that Trump gets this to be the issue that they are laser-focused on, because the great thing about Trump is it's kind of unpredictable, right?

01:36:41.000 You didn't know what he was going to do tomorrow.

01:36:43.000 Is Trump going to send troops across Canadian border?

01:36:45.000 I mean, it's a non-zero chance, right?

01:36:48.000 That's the thing.

01:36:49.000 And you don't know.

01:36:50.000 So it focuses their minds, but it also makes them think, right, OK, we need contingency plans, right?

01:36:56.000 We need to seriously think about breaking away from the U.S. orbit of influence.

01:37:01.000 Maybe we need to reconsider NATO.

01:37:03.000 Maybe we need to reconsider the entire post-World War II settlement.

01:37:06.000 And there are a lot of people who are actually in favour of that.

01:37:08.000 I think we should invade the U.K. I know.

01:37:11.000 It couldn't get any worse.

01:37:12.000 We'll bring freedom and democracy and we'll be welcomed as liberators.

01:37:15.000 Yeah, well, that's worked every other time, isn't it?

01:37:17.000 I don't know.

01:37:18.000 It didn't work in a row.

01:37:18.000 Well, this time, this is the one time.

01:37:21.000 You're going to liberate Canada next?

01:37:22.000 No, it's just that when I look at the UK, I am sad.

01:37:27.000 The thing is, I am too, but the point being, there are other ways of approaching these problems that Trump could have used that would have not...

01:37:38.000 Not kicked off the storm.

01:37:40.000 Because, I mean, one thing that Trump, I don't think he appreciates, is that he's making it very difficult to be right-wing outside of America.

01:37:46.000 So, look at Canada at the moment.

01:37:48.000 The Liberal Party is storming ahead under a globalist who's running the Bank of England for a while.

01:37:54.000 Everything bad about Canada is because of the Liberal Party, because of Trudeau. 0.98

01:37:57.000 Everything that's shit in Canada, they've done, and yet they're the ones who are more than 50% in the polls at the moment. 0.99

01:38:02.000 And the Conservative has got to come out and be like, I hate Donald Trump. 0.99

01:38:06.000 I'm going to fight Donald Trump.

01:38:07.000 It's like, A, no one really believes that. 0.61

01:38:09.000 B, why the hell do you have to say that?

01:38:11.000 That should be your closest ally.

01:38:12.000 Trump should be bigging you up and giving you all the opportunity you need to get ahead in the polls.

01:38:17.000 That is a good point.

01:38:18.000 And it's the same in Europe.

01:38:19.000 It's the same in England.

01:38:20.000 The prediction markets have poly of dropping.

01:38:23.000 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

01:38:24.000 And if Trump was a bit more, I guess, if he had a wider view of things.

01:38:35.000 Then understanding why it's important to get Canada into the fold.

01:38:39.000 See, Trump could have approached it saying, look, I'm not going to work with Trudeau.

01:38:44.000 I'm not going to work with Canada. 0.50

01:38:46.000 I'm not going to work with Trudeau.

01:38:47.000 Trudeau has ruined Canada.

01:38:49.000 Look what he's done to you.

01:38:50.000 But that Pierre guy, we're going to give him favorable trade deals.

01:38:53.000 We're going to make sure the fentanyl trade or whatever it is.

01:38:56.000 I love Canada.

01:38:58.000 I love Pierre Polivier.

01:38:59.000 Things are going to be great, and he would have given him a boost in the polls.

01:39:02.000 Same with all of the right-wingers in Europe.

01:39:05.000 Same with Nigel Farage, even though he's been a traumatic failure at the moment.

01:39:09.000 That's a bummer, isn't it?

01:39:10.000 Yeah, it's terrible.

01:39:11.000 It's really, really disappointing.

01:39:13.000 I don't know.

01:39:14.000 Yeah, actually.

01:39:14.000 But the point is, Trump is actually making it difficult for right-wingers everywhere else because he's giving the liberals a really strong hand because of these silly things.

01:39:23.000 And these weren't necessary.

01:39:25.000 I like that, yeah.

01:39:27.000 So we all liked that video of Pierre Polyev eating the apple with the journalist.

01:39:31.000 And he was like, what does that mean?

01:39:33.000 What are you saying?

01:39:33.000 And he's just roasting them.

01:39:34.000 But he has to be a moderate guy for what Canada represents.

01:39:38.000 It's a very liberal country.

01:39:39.000 So he's not going to align with Trump.

01:39:41.000 Instead, Trump basically declares, I don't want to say war because in the sense of international things, we are actually getting dangerous close to foreign wars.

01:39:50.000 But he basically starts a spat with Canada for a variety of reasons, putting the conservatives in a weakened position where they can't agree with him on the ideals that are correct because it puts them in alignment with Trump.

01:40:04.000 And Trump's a bad guy to Canada now.

01:40:05.000 And also what he's done is he's handed the sort of nationalistic perspective to the liberals.

01:40:10.000 If you notice their rhetoric, it's hardcore Canadian nationalism in a way that Poliev wouldn't have been able to do in the absence of Trump not saying anything, right? 0.98

01:40:20.000 He would have come out as a radical right-winger and they would have been like, oh no, God, you're crazy. 0.78

01:40:24.000 Could be accelerationism.

01:40:25.000 Maybe, but I don't think it's planned.

01:40:28.000 I think this is all kind of spontaneous.

01:40:30.000 And so now the Liberals have got the hard right position in Canada.

01:40:33.000 So he's got no room to maneuver at all. 0.99

01:40:35.000 It's like, damn, man, this was not wise. 0.96

01:40:37.000 He doesn't seem like the guy who cares about what Canada's doing. 0.98

01:40:40.000 Well, sure, but that's not helpful.

01:40:42.000 There are mass layoffs now in their steel and aluminum industries.

01:40:45.000 No doubt, but that's not going to improve relations between America and Canada.

01:40:50.000 Moreover... If the idea is to destroy the concept of an international alliance of right-wingers, Trump's going about it.

01:40:58.000 Because Trump is just going to make it not possible to be right-wing in other countries.

01:41:02.000 I don't think Trump cares.

01:41:04.000 That's great, but that's going to be bad when the entire world is left-wing and it's just America.

01:41:11.000 They'll work against you.

01:41:12.000 And this is what I mean about declining political capital, what I said earlier.

01:41:16.000 So you consider yourself an anti-Trump liberal?

01:41:18.000 I'm kidding.

01:41:20.000 The point being, Trump is not solidifying his own victory, right?

01:41:29.000 Trump will be a blip in the historical record rather than setting the new paradigm that the entire Western world revolves around.

01:41:37.000 And this is a wasted opportunity, is what I'm saying.

01:41:40.000 Are you having any meetings while you're here?

01:41:42.000 No, but, I mean, if Trump wants to give me a call, I can make some time.

01:41:44.000 I think you should talk to a lot of the people in his orbit, if you were able to.

01:41:47.000 I mean, I'd be more than happy to.

01:41:49.000 Hopefully, I think, you know, hopefully they might see a lot of clips like this, because I do think you're making a lot of really important points.

01:41:54.000 I just want to be clear as well.

01:41:56.000 I say this as a die-hard Trump partisan, right?

01:41:58.000 Yeah. I mean, you know, like...

01:42:00.000 One of my favorite things going through 2016 to 2020 is watching you desperately trying to resist becoming...

01:42:05.000 It was so great.

01:42:07.000 Yeah, but to be fair, we had Tulsi Gabbard.

01:42:09.000 I know, I know.

01:42:09.000 And it was just the left, I could see them making it impossible not to love Trump.

01:42:15.000 Well, so there were a few things.

01:42:17.000 One, Trump was a lot worse culturally back then.

01:42:21.000 Sure. He mocked a journalist who got attacked and he laughed about it.

01:42:25.000 We also had...

01:42:27.000 Tulsi Gabbard, who I don't agree with at the time.

01:42:30.000 She shifted a lot of positions.

01:42:31.000 But my view was largely we can't allow the psychopaths to take over a major political party in this country and turn it into whatever that is.

01:42:40.000 We need people of principle to push out the neolibs and the far-left crackpots.

01:42:45.000 The crackpots won.

01:42:46.000 And then, you know, when it came to 2020, Trump put out his second-term policy plan, and I said, I'm for most of these things.

01:42:54.000 I have to support it, especially considering I know Biden is bad.

01:42:58.000 But also there was a cultural element to it as well, where like, you know, you're a man on the left.

01:43:02.000 I used to be a man on the left.

01:43:03.000 You know, it was one of those things just like Trump represents non-leftism.

01:43:07.000 You know, he represents a paradigmatic shift away from what they were trying to achieve.

01:43:12.000 And so if you were on the left, you couldn't ever have sympathy for Trump.

01:43:15.000 But Trump...

01:43:16.000 It was charming, funny, and you didn't know what he was going to do next.

01:43:19.000 And the left was evil and wrong about everything, and Trump became increasingly more correct about everything.

01:43:25.000 But I think that's where I've always been.

01:43:28.000 I grew up in a family where I had a conservative parent, a liberal parent.

01:43:31.000 I was constantly in the position of, stop making me defend Trump.

01:43:35.000 Because you're lying about him.

01:43:36.000 I know.

01:43:37.000 And so I'm making all these videos where I'm like, Trump didn't do that.

01:43:39.000 I know.

01:43:40.000 Like, we can say...

01:43:41.000 I watched all of your videos.

01:43:42.000 Of course.

01:43:43.000 And I was like, come on, Tim.

01:43:45.000 But it wasn't an issue of like, I must be the left.

01:43:49.000 It was, my views are center-left on a lot of issues in the libertarian sphere.

01:43:55.000 Aligning with Trump isn't the future that I'm hoping for in this country.

01:44:00.000 They're lying about him every day.

01:44:02.000 They're not giving us a proper alternative.

01:44:04.000 They're giving us no choice.

01:44:05.000 And then they went so insane.

01:44:07.000 I was like, Trump, please help us.

01:44:08.000 We have no choice.

01:44:10.000 I mean, 2020, when Trump gets first elected, it's fascinating how the Gamergate stuff evolves from this ideology spreading through universities, through media, through social media, but at the highest levels of institutions wasn't yet there.

01:44:26.000 Midway through Trump's administration, it's now appearing in all these places.

01:44:29.000 By the end of Trump's administration, it's everywhere.

01:44:32.000 And then it's like, okay, we cannot let this keep going.

01:44:36.000 I agree.

01:44:37.000 Well, we got him back.

01:44:38.000 I do think we're winning.

01:44:39.000 Oh, yeah.

01:44:40.000 On the technical stuff, Trump is doing a superb job, right?

01:44:44.000 On all the actual decisions that he personally is making, and most of his team are making, he's doing a spectacular job.

01:44:50.000 It's just there is a means of communication that the The Europeans and the Canadian types, they don't get it.

01:44:58.000 And he could just communicate in a different way that would, even if they're not persuaded, it would kind of put them on the back foot once again.

01:45:07.000 So they wouldn't be able to just sit there and whine about him.

01:45:09.000 We're going to go to your chats, my friends.

01:45:10.000 So smash that like button right now.

01:45:13.000 Today, for every like, it is one more fired federal employee.

01:45:19.000 I found...

01:45:19.000 Like, like, like, like, like.

01:45:21.000 Exactly. Let me get my phone.

01:45:22.000 It works.

01:45:22.000 The most effective one was every like represents another year in prison for Anthony Fauci.

01:45:27.000 Oh, yeah.

01:45:27.000 And we got 17,300 likes, right?

01:45:30.000 People were just like, they couldn't mash like fast enough.

01:45:33.000 We're going to read your Rumble Rants and Super Chats starting now.

01:45:37.000 And we got that uncensored call-in show coming up in about 20 minutes.

01:45:41.000 So you don't want to miss it.

01:45:41.000 You want to go to Rumble.com slash TimCastIRL.

01:45:44.000 Use promo code TIM10 at Rumble to get $10 off your annual membership and watch the Uncensored Call-In Show where our members actually call in.

01:45:52.000 All right.

01:45:53.000 Rain20J says, hopefully Carl doesn't need to deal with the Dirty Dirty Smear merchants again anytime soon. 0.96

01:45:59.000 They've been all right with me recently, actually.

01:46:02.000 Because we're doing a lot of good work over at Loat Seaters, so go subscribe.

01:46:07.000 It's really paying off, and they can't deny it at this point.

01:46:11.000 You coined that phrase, didn't you?

01:46:12.000 I did, yeah.

01:46:13.000 It popped up everywhere.

01:46:15.000 Everyone was tweeting smear merchants.

01:46:16.000 That's what they are.

01:46:17.000 That's literally their jobs, you know.

01:46:20.000 All right.

01:46:21.000 XboxLad says, hey guys, check out the U.S. Debt Clock and look at tax income.

01:46:25.000 Why? What's going on?

01:46:27.000 U.S. DebtClock.org, is that what it is?

01:46:30.000 Yeah, that's it.

01:46:31.000 And where's tax income?

01:46:32.000 Tax income.

01:46:33.000 I don't know where that is.

01:46:35.000 Tax. There's too many!

01:46:37.000 Yeah, I know.

01:46:38.000 There's too many.

01:46:40.000 Okay, total federal, total debt.

01:46:43.000 I don't know.

01:46:44.000 Savings per taxpayer is up to $2,000, though.

01:46:46.000 That's not bad.

01:46:48.000 The doge clock.

01:46:49.000 It's all right.

01:46:49.000 I don't know where tax income is, though.

01:46:51.000 Is that revenue per citizen?

01:46:55.000 Total local revenues?

01:46:56.000 No, no, the green one a bit up at the top.

01:46:58.000 Is that it?

01:46:59.000 Federal tax revenue.

01:47:01.000 Is that what they mean by tax income?

01:47:03.000 I think so.

01:47:05.000 Is it going up?

01:47:06.000 Five trillion, sorry.

01:47:07.000 Yeah, five trillion?

01:47:08.000 Yeah. Yeah, well, our debt is still going up a lot.

01:47:11.000 It is slowing down, which is pretty cool.

01:47:12.000 Significantly, actually.

01:47:14.000 Little John says, God, I hope Ian isn't here.

01:47:16.000 Hopefully he is home putting graphene.

01:47:18.000 Oh, I can't read that.

01:47:20.000 I can't read that.

01:47:24.000 Everyone else here read it.

01:47:26.000 All right.

01:47:27.000 Some randomness says, My tire went flat.

01:47:31.000 Then the air pump was out of order.

01:47:33.000 Then the tire ripped open and I locked my keys and phone inside the car.

01:47:36.000 All on my birthday, I'm using all my karma points to demand Sargon stop dissing Mexican food.

01:47:42.000 You know what?

01:47:42.000 You don't like it?

01:47:46.000 I'm really sorry that you've done all these things to yourself, but Mexican food still fucking sucks, man. 1.00

01:47:53.000 What? What do you mean? 0.99

01:47:54.000 I'm not even going to explain myself.

01:47:55.000 No, no, no.

01:47:56.000 Hold on.

01:47:57.000 I think you're talking about Tex-Mex.

01:47:59.000 I don't know what that is.

01:48:01.000 Exactly. You see, I've proved it.

01:48:02.000 He's wrong.

01:48:02.000 Just food that Mexicans make.

01:48:05.000 So, I went to Brazil, and I said, I want real Brazilian food.

01:48:10.000 And the guy said, okay, I'll get you real Brazilian food.

01:48:12.000 And you know what it was?

01:48:13.000 Farofa. It was steak.

01:48:15.000 Ah. It's steak.

01:48:17.000 I think, like, and rice.

01:48:18.000 I went, well, for sure.

01:48:20.000 Like, that's delicious.

01:48:22.000 Yeah. But he was like, he's like, hey, look, man, like, everybody just eats chicken and steak.

01:48:25.000 That's normal.

01:48:26.000 I went to Thailand.

01:48:26.000 I said, I want real Thai food.

01:48:27.000 And my friend was like, you want real Thai food?

01:48:29.000 I was like, real Thai food.

01:48:30.000 Okay, guess what it was?

01:48:31.000 Chicken and rice.

01:48:32.000 I went to a Thai restaurant in San Francisco.

01:48:35.000 It was a real Thai restaurant.

01:48:36.000 I was like, okay, I couldn't read anything on the board.

01:48:39.000 I didn't know what it was.

01:48:39.000 So I was like, choose this thing.

01:48:40.000 They give me this weird bowl.

01:48:42.000 It's full of liquid, but there's full of stuff in the liquid.

01:48:45.000 Soup? No, no, no, it wasn't.

01:48:46.000 It was kind of like a stew, I guess.

01:48:48.000 But I couldn't identify any of the components of it.

01:48:51.000 It was like large, weird, lumpy things.

01:48:53.000 It looked like an alien dish.

01:48:54.000 And I was just like, right, I'm not eating this.

01:48:56.000 So of course, I've seen the way you make your steaks.

01:49:00.000 You're in no position.

01:49:00.000 Here's my point.

01:49:01.000 No position.

01:49:02.000 Of course, there's specialty dishes, but typically what people think is a regional dish or national dish is an American-made abomination. 0.92

01:49:12.000 So when you go to Mexico, they're going to give you thin strips of steak with rice.

01:49:17.000 Oh, okay.

01:49:18.000 It's delicious.

01:49:19.000 That's fine, but...

01:49:19.000 Lightly salted, maybe a little...

01:49:20.000 Everything I've seen that people have been like, that's Mexican, I'm saying that. 0.99

01:49:23.000 But that's actually Tex-Mex.

01:49:24.000 This is the thing.

01:49:25.000 And people in the United States think they're getting Mexican food.

01:49:27.000 Burritos. And tacos.

01:49:29.000 They do have tacos in Mexico, but the way we eat in Mexico, it's actually Tex-Mex.

01:49:33.000 You go to a real Mexican restaurant, and they're going to give you, it's going to be steak.

01:49:37.000 It's going to be carne asada, it's going to be pollo asada, things like that.

01:49:39.000 So Taco Bell's lying to us.

01:49:41.000 Oh, bro.

01:49:42.000 They tried opening Taco Bell in Mexico, and they marketed it as American food.

01:49:48.000 Because they were like, what is it?

01:49:49.000 Taco Bell's terrible as well.

01:49:51.000 Ouch! It's a bowl of rice with some beans.

01:49:57.000 Bro, have you not had a cheesy gordita crunch with the Doritos Locos Taco?

01:50:02.000 Now I want to go to Taco Bell on the way home.

01:50:05.000 The Doritos Locos Taco.

01:50:07.000 We have Taco Bell over in the UK.

01:50:09.000 You like Doritos?

01:50:10.000 No. Okay, well it's a giant Dorito, nacho cheese, with beef, lettuce, cheese, then they take a pita, they put cheese, and then they put some, like, ranch on it.

01:50:19.000 And that is...

01:50:21.000 American food, yeah.

01:50:22.000 Absolutely. It's delicious.

01:50:24.000 I don't eat it all the time, but when I do...

01:50:25.000 And then more cheese.

01:50:26.000 If cheese is three ingredients in it...

01:50:29.000 The funny thing about...

01:50:31.000 Everybody knows this about Taco Bell is that it's like five ingredients prepared 50 different ways with different names for the exact same things.

01:50:40.000 It's awesome.

01:50:40.000 But it's delicious.

01:50:41.000 I wouldn't change it.

01:50:43.000 I mean, what are you eating?

01:50:44.000 Blood pudding?

01:50:45.000 Come on, huh?

01:50:46.000 I like blood pudding.

01:50:47.000 It's good.

01:50:47.000 I was going to say, only as part of a fried breakfast.

01:50:50.000 I love English breakfast.

01:50:51.000 It's the best.

01:50:52.000 I know.

01:50:53.000 Tomato, beans, mushrooms.

01:50:54.000 What else you got?

01:50:55.000 Eggs? Eggs.

01:50:56.000 Yeah. Sausage, bacon.

01:50:58.000 You know, just anything else, really.

01:50:59.000 But, like, they're bangers, not just sausages, right?

01:51:01.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:51:01.000 There's, like, bread in them.

01:51:03.000 Oh, well, I mean, it depends.

01:51:05.000 Like, if you want a high-quality one, you get, like, Cumberland sausage or something.

01:51:08.000 So it's proper meat with chives or something.

01:51:11.000 I don't know.

01:51:12.000 They give you fresh tomato slices?

01:51:14.000 Yeah. It is good.

01:51:16.000 American breakfast, waffles and syrup?

01:51:18.000 Have you ever looked at the amount of sugar in maple syrup?

01:51:23.000 It's crazy.

01:51:23.000 It's just sugar.

01:51:24.000 It's pure sugar.

01:51:25.000 I looked at it and I was like, wow, I can't eat that.

01:51:28.000 This is your breakfast.

01:51:28.000 It's 50 carbs in a couple tablespoons.

01:51:32.000 So people, when they pour all over, I'm like, bro, that's like 100 carbs right there.

01:51:36.000 Pure sugar on your sugar loaf.

01:51:39.000 Tim's trying to sound virtuous, but look at all the Pop-Tarts when you walk out.

01:51:42.000 It's just boxes and boxes.

01:51:45.000 It doesn't have maple syrup on it.

01:51:48.000 No, the other day he's like, hey man, try this, what was it, a cookies and cream Pop-Tart.

01:51:52.000 I was like, I bet it's amazing.

01:51:54.000 No, no, no, no.

01:51:54.000 He's lying.

01:51:55.000 It was a cookies and cream Pop-Tart with ice cream between the two Pop-Tarts.

01:52:00.000 That was great too.

01:52:02.000 He was actually downplaying it.

01:52:04.000 Yeah, we actually, we had everybody make Pop-Tart ice cream sandwiches.

01:52:08.000 But that's always allowed.

01:52:09.000 I just don't do it all the time, you know what I mean?

01:52:11.000 It's fine.

01:52:13.000 McDonald's I won't eat though.

01:52:15.000 What have we here?

01:52:16.000 No, McDonald's, I won't go near.

01:52:17.000 Everybody loves McDonald's fries, but not me.

01:52:20.000 I ain't touching it.

01:52:21.000 The fries are the problem with McDonald's, though.

01:52:23.000 Think about it.

01:52:24.000 It's a burger that's been fried on a grill.

01:52:26.000 And seed oils, nonetheless.

01:52:29.000 Well, I heard they're going to bring back tallow.

01:52:30.000 They might bring back tallow.

01:52:31.000 Yeah, I know.

01:52:31.000 RFK, what are you doing?

01:52:32.000 Waiting. Soapy Enigma says, hey, just wanted to shout out the Boonies HQ Discord.

01:52:37.000 There's some changes coming to make things a bit cooler, so come join us over there.

01:52:41.000 Come share your tricks, and let's boost the space. 0.93

01:52:44.000 Yeah, so boonieshq.com has its own Discord membership, and I think you guys just paid somebody a couple hundred bucks for doing a board slide?

01:52:53.000 Yeah, so each month they have a trick of the month, like a boonies bounties thing, and you get to submit your best trick of that month, and then yeah, you win $200, get all the Discord members vote on it, so if you aren't in there, that's a way to get your votes in and get to be a boss.

01:53:07.000 We want to do something like that with the Timcast Discord, where we would give a $10,000 grant.

01:53:12.000 To someone for a cultural endeavor.

01:53:14.000 We are still in legal limbo because $10,000 is a lot of money.

01:53:17.000 Our lawyers are like, this is a very hot...

01:53:19.000 It's expensive sweepstakes.

01:53:21.000 We've got to go over the laws.

01:53:22.000 For the Boonies Bounties, it's similar.

01:53:24.000 It's a contest.

01:53:25.000 But it's so much simpler to give someone $200 with a do a skate trick and then we judge who wins.

01:53:32.000 But the Discord for the Boonies are the judges.

01:53:35.000 We have no say in it.

01:53:36.000 So the community decides who actually gets to win.

01:53:38.000 Oh, that's great.

01:53:39.000 And then people go on Instagram or I guess anywhere, right?

01:53:42.000 Or is it Instagram?

01:53:43.000 Yeah, it's mainly Instagram.

01:53:44.000 And then we just, like Tim said, just give it over to the Discord members.

01:53:47.000 And it's kind of crazy because sometimes we'll think like, well, we thought this guy should have won, but then it's up to the members.

01:53:52.000 So that's the benefit of being a Discord member.

01:53:54.000 Yeah, we want to decentralize this stuff.

01:53:56.000 But also we want to boost skateboarding.

01:53:58.000 We love it.

01:53:59.000 Yeah. All right, let's grab some more.

01:54:02.000 Ooh, this is a good one.

01:54:03.000 Steven Richman says, can I get a shout-out to my wife Amanda?

01:54:06.000 15 years today, and she still puts up with me, hoping for 15 more. 0.89

01:54:10.000 Congratulations, sir.

01:54:10.000 That's incredible.

01:54:12.000 I told, I was talking to Allison, we were watching something on the news about a divorce, and then we started talking about marriage, and I started complaining about Reagan and no-fault divorce.

01:54:22.000 And then I was like, I will never get a divorce.

01:54:25.000 I do not believe in divorce.

01:54:26.000 I will never initiate divorce.

01:54:27.000 Nothing could ever happen.

01:54:28.000 Literally nothing.

01:54:30.000 There's very rare circumstances based on legal precedent and what society would do, but never going to happen.

01:54:36.000 And then I pounded the table and yelled, death before dishonor.

01:54:39.000 But she's thrilled.

01:54:41.000 Oh, she absolutely was.

01:54:43.000 I'm glad you think that.

01:54:44.000 And I was like, marriage is...

01:54:47.000 I've been saying this for a while, but I believe...

01:54:50.000 Absolutely. I think a large component of the culture war is those who serve God and those who want to be God.

01:54:58.000 And my explanation was my oath in marriage is not just for you.

01:55:03.000 It's not just for me.

01:55:04.000 It's not just between us.

01:55:05.000 It is to God.

01:55:06.000 That's what an oath is.

01:55:07.000 Exactly. And I reject those who would break their oaths.

01:55:12.000 And that's why Hachiko the dog is one of the most honorable symbols of loyalty.

01:55:17.000 And you're familiar, right?

01:55:19.000 No. The dog who waited for 10 years for his owner who died.

01:55:22.000 Oh, that's lovely.

01:55:23.000 In Japan, he didn't know that his owner had died, and he would come to the train station every day at 5 to wait for him.

01:55:30.000 For 10 years, he stayed there.

01:55:31.000 They kept trying to remove him.

01:55:32.000 He would run back.

01:55:33.000 So in Japan, they built a statue in his honor.

01:55:36.000 And then he has a holiday for a loyalty day.

01:55:39.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:55:40.000 That's honor.

01:55:41.000 Now, if only he knew, I'd have no problem with him moving on and being sad.

01:55:44.000 But so long as he didn't.

01:55:46.000 And there's so many other stories about dogs that refuse to abandon.

01:55:50.000 That's tremendous.

01:55:52.000 Yeah. That's another reason why I really despise law enforcement that violate their oaths, and they know they do.

01:55:58.000 They are oath breakers, and I think they're, you know what, the lowest circle of hell is for betrayers and the disloyal.

01:56:06.000 I think it's always been that way as well.

01:56:07.000 I mean, do you know, the word warlock is used as like an evil villain, right?

01:56:13.000 It means oath breaker.

01:56:14.000 Wow, really?

01:56:15.000 Yeah, literally it means oath breaker.

01:56:17.000 Wow. So, you know, this gets embedded in the culture from history.

01:56:22.000 Whether you realize it or not, you know, breaking an earth is just the worst thing you can do because someone else was relying on you.

01:56:26.000 Back to that spiritual degradation that like, you know, oh, this don't seem to matter as much to people these days.

01:56:33.000 It feels just like a minor contractual engagement rather than, you know, like I'm married and we have our spats and we have our things.

01:56:42.000 But to me, those are the moments where you really realize, okay, this is how I should be communicating instead.

01:56:47.000 You start to learn more by sticking to the oath rather than breaking the oath because that would just feel easier in the moment.

01:56:54.000 It's really hard to believe that people take oaths seriously these days anyway.

01:56:58.000 They sound archaic, right?

01:57:00.000 But all of society used to be built on oaths.

01:57:03.000 Everything. It was your oath to your friends, your family, your wife, your lord, your king, your god.

01:57:09.000 The whole thing was predicated on...

01:57:11.000 This is why I was really disappointed to learn about the corruption at the highest levels of the Klingon Empire.

01:57:16.000 Oh yeah, me too.

01:57:16.000 Because they're supposed to be an honor-based society.

01:57:19.000 And I'm half-kidding, by the way.

01:57:22.000 But, Carl, you're familiar with the Kittimer Accords, right?

01:57:25.000 Oh, no.

01:57:26.000 I need some Trekkies in here.

01:57:28.000 I've watched enough Star Trek to be familiar with most.

01:57:30.000 I'm going to tell everyone the story because the writing is just so tremendous.

01:57:33.000 And this is what the boomers gave to us at the end of the 80s. 0.75

01:57:36.000 And this is what we are losing today, culturally.

01:57:38.000 So by all means, mock Star Trek, but let me tell you this.

01:57:41.000 Star Trek, the original series, was a bit campy. 0.91

01:57:43.000 It was very silly. 0.69

01:57:44.000 The bad guys were the Klingons. 0.74

01:57:47.000 When they relaunched The Next Generation, some 20 years after the first series ended, they wanted to show that the story had progressed.

01:57:53.000 So in the introductory episode, the pilot, they have a Klingon on the bridge of the new Enterprise, which is shocking.

01:58:01.000 I mean, they were enemies.

01:58:02.000 The story they wrote was that the Klingons were an honor-based society, and the Federation was largely dishonorable.

01:58:09.000 They didn't like them.

01:58:10.000 The Romulans, which are supposed to be a civilization of people driven by passion and impulse, attacked a Klingon civilian colony, largely women and children. 0.54

01:58:20.000 When a distress signal was sent out, the Enterprise picked up the distress signal and rushed as fast as they could to the colony and encountering an overwhelming force in the Romulans they could not defeat, but engaged in battle anyway. 0.98

01:58:36.000 to try and save as many people as possible, even though they were enemies with the Klingons. 0.58

01:58:40.000 The Klingon Empire saw that as an act of honor and sacrifice.

01:58:43.000 The Romulans destroyed the Enterprise, killing all the Federation personnel, but they died trying to save their enemy because it was the right thing to do. 1.00

01:58:51.000 The Klingons then opened up communication.

01:58:53.000 What an amazing writing.

01:58:59.000 And I grew up as a little kid, and the boomers gave that to me. 0.85

01:59:01.000 And I was like, man, I love these stories.

01:59:03.000 To be honorable.

01:59:04.000 To be the man who knows you're going to run into a burning building.

01:59:07.000 There's a pizza delivery guy, I think it was.

01:59:08.000 Ran into a burning building to save a couple kids, and he got burns all over his arms, but he saved those kids' lives.

01:59:13.000 And you know what's really sad?

01:59:14.000 Those kids are going to grow up, they're going to be 20 years old, and they're not going to think about them.

01:59:17.000 Maybe once in a while.

01:59:19.000 Maybe once in a while.

01:59:20.000 But on a day-to-day, it's not going to come up.

01:59:21.000 But that guy's going to live with those scars for the rest of his life.

01:59:24.000 And that's what it means to be a man.

01:59:25.000 But the thing is, this is why we need to have a much more conscious view of mythology, right?

01:59:32.000 Because that's set now forever.

01:59:36.000 Gladiator, what we do in Life Echoes in Eternity.

01:59:39.000 That's generally the principle of mythology.

01:59:41.000 That story can be told over and over and over.

01:59:45.000 And now, however many hundreds of thousands of people who watch this, they're going to go, oh, who the hell's that guy?

01:59:49.000 And so the story, it's set forever now.

01:59:52.000 So his heroic sacrifice wasn't in vain.

01:59:55.000 That's what heroism mythology is for.

01:59:58.000 And I will stress too, I care not for badges when I see these people in the White House with all of these things on their chest.

02:00:04.000 No, the badge to me is the veteran who is scarred, maimed, injured, or paralyzed.

02:00:09.000 That is the true mark of a hero and sacrifice and honor.

02:00:13.000 That I get to walk around.

02:00:15.000 I'm a 40-year-old guy skateboarding in my own little...

02:00:18.000 Why? Because there are people who are willing to die to save my life.

02:00:21.000 And I don't have to do that.

02:00:23.000 I owe them everything.

02:00:24.000 So I'm a big...

02:00:25.000 That's another reason why I want our leadership to be veterans.

02:00:28.000 It's why I was a fan of Tulsi Gabbard.

02:00:30.000 It's why I'm a fan of J.D. Vance.

02:00:32.000 I really, really think that...

02:00:34.000 Our president, vice president at the highest level, they should have served.

02:00:38.000 Donald Trump, he's much better than what else we got.

02:00:40.000 And he's not bad.

02:00:41.000 He's a good guy.

02:00:42.000 But I like J.D. Vance.

02:00:44.000 I get the feeling that Trump was a necessary corrective to the corruption in the system, right?

02:00:50.000 Agreed. It's very difficult to get a prim, honorable man to do what was necessary.

02:00:59.000 I mean, I'm not saying he's dishonorable or anything, but he's not prim and noble in that way, right?

02:01:05.000 He's a brawler.

02:01:06.000 He's a street fighter, politically.

02:01:08.000 He's a new businessman.

02:01:09.000 He knows all the dirty games. 1.00

02:01:10.000 And he's like, no, you know, fucking lined head or fucking... 1.00

02:01:14.000 Little Marco. 1.00

02:01:15.000 Yeah, Little Marco, all of these names.

02:01:17.000 He's like, no, I'm going to bully you all out of the way because I know what needs to be done to save this.

02:01:23.000 It'll turn out pretty well.

02:01:24.000 Let's grab a couple more here. 0.91

02:01:25.000 Chubby Wubby says, Tim Snow White has a lower rating than The Human Centipede 2. Underrated film, by the way, guys.

02:01:35.000 Forgotten classic.

02:01:36.000 That's what they all say.

02:01:37.000 Never mind.

02:01:38.000 Not even just the first one.

02:01:39.000 Can't wait until I can show that to my kids.

02:01:41.000 The Human Centipede 2. Mr. Spensar says, Hey Carl, happy to see you outside of the tax prison.

02:01:46.000 You had a chat about responsibility to civilization.

02:01:54.000 Well, congratulations on getting your copy of Islander 3. Well done about the kids, too.

02:02:05.000 So for anyone who's wondering, Islander is a philosophy magazine, a sort of traditionalist philosophy magazine that we produce, and we did the first one.

02:02:13.000 We want to make a really, really beautiful thing that has deep philosophical essays in it and poetry and all these other things.

02:02:21.000 And we didn't know if there was going to be a market for it.

02:02:24.000 So we were like, okay, we'll give it a go.

02:02:25.000 And the first one sold like 6,500 copies.

02:02:27.000 I was like, oh, that's not bad.

02:02:28.000 So we thought, I would do it again, do another one.

02:02:30.000 The second one sold like 7,500.

02:02:32.000 I was like, okay, great.

02:02:33.000 And so we printed 10,000 of this last one.

02:02:36.000 And we sold out within like three or four weeks.

02:02:38.000 And so they're all gone now.

02:02:40.000 And it's like, wow, okay, people are really enjoying this.

02:02:43.000 So the last thing I'll say before we go to the Uncensored show is, with all due respect to Mash Touré...

02:02:48.000 Because I think he's a cool dude.

02:02:49.000 He's a good dude.

02:02:49.000 He made a sweater where it says freedom over everything.

02:02:52.000 It's freedom, line, everything.

02:02:54.000 And I was thinking about that because he gave me the sweater and I actually have it, I have it hung up.

02:02:59.000 And so I was walking past it one day and I stopped and I thought, nah, duty over everything.

02:03:04.000 We have a responsibility to each other and to the world and to God and to life and to everything.

02:03:09.000 And freedom over everything leads to degeneracy and moral decay.

02:03:13.000 Yeah. So, my friends, smash that like button. 0.73

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02:03:50.000 You go to that Discord.

02:03:52.000 Maybe it's not the Discord.

02:03:53.000 Maybe it's somewhere where you meet with people and you say, I thought of this thing.

02:03:56.000 You give that one sentence and light bulbs start lighting up over people's heads.

02:04:01.000 And then who knows, maybe in a year, Donald Trump's at a rally saying exactly what your idea was because it made it that far.

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