On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the latest in the Trump administration, including the latest on the TSA, the White House, and more. We also hear about a guy who torched a truck in Las Vegas, and the guy who caught him.
00:02:29.000You know, with everything Donald Trump's been talking about doing, everything he's actually done, this story seems like it may actually happen.
00:02:36.000So a couple of Republicans in the Senate want to abolish the TSA.
00:02:40.000They argue that it's been cumbersome post-9-11, etc., etc., and private security would be better.
00:02:46.000We also heard the GOP is planning to defund NPR and PBS.
00:02:52.000I wouldn't be surprised if in six months...
00:02:54.000Almost every bureaucratic institution has been completely gutted because they already fired most of the people at the Department of Education.
00:03:01.000And there's very little that Democrats can actually do to stop it because Trump can move faster than the courts.
00:03:08.000You get all these stories talking about the courts are blocking Trump and Trump's acting all mad about it.
00:03:13.000But if you actually look at what's getting done, the Republicans are eviscerating the bureaucratic institutions.
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00:06:47.000And then in The Spectator, they were like, yeah, so the young men in Britain, they're not...
00:06:53.000Like, 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.
00:07:09.000And it's just like, well, look, sorry, guys, we've been working really hard.
00:07:12.000You know, you guys have been slacking off.
00:08:49.000I saw this story and I immediately laughed.
00:08:50.000I looked at Phil and I was like, we've got to lead with this.
00:08:53.000Republicans look to abolish the TSA in favor of private security at airports.
00:08:58.000Senator Mike Lee of Utah is leading a bill alongside Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:09:02.000They 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.
00:09:11.000Our 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.
00:09:20.000American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.
00:09:27.000The 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.
00:09:36.000Well, what do you guys do over in the U.K.?
00:09:53.000It's just done by the government in a way that's similar.
00:10:39.000And they say, well, you're coming with us.
00:10:41.000But 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.
00:11:03.000Well, 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.
00:12:47.000Oh, okay, because I figured you'd get arrested.
00:12:50.000See, the thing is, the one thing the British government spends all of their time trying to police is negative characterizations of groups, right?
00:13:00.000So 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.
00:13:11.000As 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.
00:13:24.000As long as you're not saying that in public, you're okay.
00:13:27.000You're on a communications device, you're okay.
00:13:31.000But otherwise, yeah, you're in trouble and you're going to jail.
00:13:34.000But is what you're saying going to get you in trouble?
00:14:19.000I personally have done a lot of flying myself.
00:14:22.000And 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.
00:14:32.000TSA, and if you look at the people that are working at TSA...
00:14:36.000They're not specifically trained to do anything.
00:14:40.000They'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.
00:14:53.000You sit there, you tell people what they're allowed to have and not to have, and then you hand people bins.
00:14:59.000Maybe the person that's actually watching the x-ray machine gets a little more training, but generally...
00:15:05.000The level of training necessary to be a TSA agent is not particularly high.
00:15:11.000It's not like it's some specialized skill that you have to go to school for.
00:16:45.000So 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.
00:18:37.000And 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.
00:18:48.000This is the quality that we can provide.
00:18:50.000And the airport itself can say, we want to go with this company or we want to go with that company.
00:18:55.000The problem, though, is it's not really about stopping an individual case, right?
00:19:00.000It's really about the deterrent and not having a soft underbelly and making them think that you're going to stop them.
00:19:06.000Because 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.
00:19:15.000Because there is an active force in the world that is at war with the United States.
00:19:21.000I'm actually more concerned with leftists right now.
00:19:39.000The GOP moves to defund the chronically biased NPR and PBS after a disastrous hearing.
00:19:44.000They're always so clever with their bills.
00:19:47.000Titled the No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act, or simply the NPR and PBS Act.
00:19:53.000Ha. 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.
00:20:02.000Did you guys see the hearing that went down?
00:20:28.000In my professional life, I'm completely neutral on Trump.
00:20:31.000I 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.
00:20:42.00087 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.
00:24:07.000Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
00:24:10.000It's a very different way to describe it.
00:24:13.000It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as being illegal.
00:24:16.000You 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.
00:24:52.000He has all these papers and she can't remember shit.
00:24:55.000I'm sure there's nothing else on that.
00:24:57.000I'm sure it's just that one, you know?
00:24:59.000So, 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.
00:25:26.000She believes because Republicans watch or listen to NPR, That means they're not biased.
00:25:32.000Republicans 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.
00:25:41.000That's why conservatives know what liberals are thinking and liberals think conservatives are insane and evil.
00:25:49.000The liberals, and you pointed to it there, the liberals actually think that conservatives are evil, right?
00:25:56.000They think that it is a moral question, that every political question is actually a moral question.
00:26:02.000And 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.
00:26:12.000Totally ignoring the fact that their morals are based on Christian...
00:26:43.000If they thought there was something wrong with you that prevented you from arriving at the morally correct liberal perspective, they'd let it go.
00:26:58.000Yes. 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.
00:27:13.000Yeah. And they said, well, the criminal didn't know better.
00:27:18.000And he was like, the guy was trying to kill me?
00:27:20.000Yeah. That's how it was in the Soviet Union.
00:27:22.000And that's how it is anywhere the left is in charge.
00:27:25.000Yeah. Because the left's fundamental position, remember, is that society is inevitable and it makes people bad.
00:27:31.000And if you're, therefore, society itself is something, there's something wrong with it, right?
00:27:36.000And 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.
00:27:46.000The people who aren't following the laws are the ones who have been made bad by society.
00:27:49.000So 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.
00:29:48.000Because it all kind of harmonizes into the same philosophy at the end of the day.
00:29:51.000So let's get into the philosophy here.
00:29:53.000We'll start with this story from the White House.
00:29:56.000Ladies and gentlemen, the White House posted a Studio Ghibli meme of a morbidly obese criminal illegal immigrant being arrested by, I assume, Tom Homan.
00:30:17.000You've got this fentanyl dealer arrested.
00:30:19.000The White House announced this a week ago.
00:30:21.000And 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.
00:30:29.000So the White House made an image of a crying, morbidly obese fentanyl drug dealer criminal legal alien being arrested.
00:30:39.000And 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.
00:30:55.000Carl, Carl, look at what the serfs responded with.
00:32:53.000It'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.
00:33:10.000If you didn't know anything about the backstory...
00:33:59.000This is something the other side hates, but it doesn't really do anything.
00:34:02.000So 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?
00:34:15.000This doesn't make me think well of the Trump administration generally.
00:34:19.000And therefore you lose a lot more political capital than you might think.
00:34:23.000Maybe. I think also one thing to consider is this is a hyper online thing.
00:34:28.000I mean, if you're not online, you're not seeing this post.
00:34:30.000Sure, but they'll write a bunch of news articles about this.
00:34:33.000They were like, the White House official communications are now mocking poor obese fentanyl dealers.
00:34:46.000How much goodwill have they lost because they've lied so much?
00:34:51.000And additionally, does the White House use the strategy of get them to complain to annoy the base or their base?
00:34:59.000Possibly. 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.
00:35:09.000And I say this as someone who's been a Trump partisan since 2016, right?
00:35:14.000I don't think anyone would ever accuse me of not sporting Trump hard enough.
00:35:19.000A couple of years ago, I went to a conference in Miami, and Curtis Yarvin, of all people, was speaking there.
00:35:25.000He 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?
00:35:35.000You'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.
00:36:00.000And it seems actually the Trump administration is kind of going in the wrong direction there.
00:36:04.000It would actually be more sensible if they had a proper plan to own the libs.
00:36:08.000What if this is the muzzle velocity that Steve Bannon was talking about?
00:36:14.000Well, just the muzzle velocity of, like, thing after thing after thing, so the other side doesn't know what to even address.
00:36:21.000Yeah, 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.
00:36:30.000The issue is essentially not to give them an easy win.
00:36:35.000This stuff is giving them an easy win.
00:36:37.000Even 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.
00:36:48.000No 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.
00:36:58.000And you are right about the sort of flood the zone thing.
00:37:02.000In a situation where you need to keep your opponent off their feet.
00:37:05.000But there is still a collective effect, which is why are they being sort of childish and chaotic?
00:37:12.000Why aren't they being authoritative and responsible?
00:37:15.000Maybe this will result in them writing a bunch of stories and defending a fentanyl dealer.
00:37:20.000Which they can then respond with, you're defending a criminal illegal alien fentanyl dealer.
00:37:25.000Yeah, but the problem is it's not really about the individual, the actual battlefield of what the person did.
00:37:30.000The problem is it's about the character of the people engaged in the fights.
00:37:34.000And what the Trump administration should be doing at the moment is demonstrating higher character than the Democrats, which is not hard to do.
00:37:41.000And the thing is, I believe that the Trump administration has higher character than the Democrats.
00:37:46.000Because I know several of them myself.
00:38:55.000It is funny, but there is a bigger concern.
00:38:57.000I do think that while I agree and I understand what you're saying, I do think it's really minimal.
00:39:02.000The 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.
00:39:14.000We might not have to worry so much for two big reasons.
00:39:17.000Even 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...
00:39:26.000The 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.
00:39:54.000Everybody's talking about it, saying there's going to be a correction.
00:39:56.000Ezra 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.
00:40:04.000So while I respect what you're saying...
00:40:16.000There'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?
00:40:28.000Lots of people actually do change their mind and swing from one way to another.
00:40:33.000They actually decide, no, I'm going over.
00:40:36.000Just changing the demographics, as the Democrats discovered, isn't enough, actually.
00:40:40.000Because a lot of those people can be persuaded over to the Donald Trump side to make America great, right?
00:40:57.000Conditions on the ground is what changed people's mind.
00:40:59.000Because 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.
00:41:11.000It 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?
00:41:21.000So 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...
00:41:32.000If things are bad under the party of evil, then they can always go over to the Republicans and the MAGA base, right?
00:41:38.000And so you've always got that kind of castle there that people can run to as refugees politically.
00:41:44.000So it's not that the individual argument makes the difference.
00:41:48.000It's just that you set yourself up as an alternative that they can choose, and did, in large numbers.
00:41:53.000Trump winning the popular vote, the Democrats are hanging their head in shame.
00:41:57.000Because they were so proud that Trump lost the popular vote the first time around.
00:42:01.000It's like, no, you've got nothing now.
00:42:02.000Yeah. 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...
00:42:14.000I'm not superhero, but you know what I mean?
00:42:17.000Something noble is what they should be posting, I think, rather than memes.
00:43:52.000So if we're talking about how the Democrats win, moderating is how they win.
00:43:58.000But 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.
00:44:06.000And then they're not going to be able to win.
00:44:07.000And then depending on what happens in the next year, with Trump gutting their resources and these executive orders, their schemes may end as well.
00:44:20.000So 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.
00:44:30.000Okay. Well, maybe Elon does, but Elon says he thinks we can get to 60 senators.
00:45:16.000Trump's not only kicking out the illegal immigrants, the criminals, the gangs, he's kicking out people who are given temporary protected status.
00:45:24.000He's getting rid of people who came here legally under a Biden policy.
00:45:27.000And he's revoking student visas for people who are anti-Israel.
00:49:02.000The 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.
00:51:53.000Well, 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.
00:52:02.000And I look over, and there's this lady just...
00:52:04.000Pissed. Just pointing, yelling, screaming.
00:52:26.000We 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!
00:52:37.000The 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...
00:52:56.000There 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?
00:53:05.000Well, you saw that joke I posted, and you elaborated on it.
00:53:09.000I was like, if these people actually thought Tesla owners were Nazis, they'd be doing them favors.
00:53:14.000I was like, we should do a skit where a neo-Nazi is in his living room watching these crazy videos of Hitler or whatever.
00:53:20.000Then 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?
00:53:24.000And they're like, I'm putting a swastika on your car, you Nazi.
00:53:45.000With the reports of people, like, okay, I just gotta say it.
00:53:48.000The 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.
00:53:59.000That guy with the DIY four-wheeler rammed into a bunch of Cybertrucks got arrested and there's a video of him.
00:54:41.000I'm not even trying to dunk on the guy.
00:54:44.000I just thought, oh, this is some poor brainwashed kid, right?
00:54:47.000Who'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.
00:55:17.000They're not accessing the same kind of logic that other people are.
00:55:21.000Whether 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.
00:55:28.000What 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?
00:55:43.000I mean, it's the only option you've got left, because these people have got nowhere else to go.
00:55:47.000What were you saying earlier about hooking them up to AI and mapping their brain and reading and writing?
00:55:51.000We were talking about this before the show.
00:55:54.000I was saying that one of the challenges with Neuralink is everybody's brain is different.
00:55:59.000We 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.
00:56:12.000So you're going to need AI to configure a neural link to connect to someone's brain.
00:56:17.000So you can put the electrodes on the brain, but the brain's got to figure out how to navigate that.
00:56:21.000The computer's got to figure out how to navigate each individual brain.
00:56:24.000So in that regard, once we do that, and I think we're very close to it, we can rewrite their brains.
00:56:41.000As 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.
00:57:36.000They have to go to prison for 20 years because they did something wrong.
00:57:38.000Okay, what if it's prison for two years with reprogramming?
00:57:40.000Well, it depends what the crime was, right?
00:57:42.000What 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...
00:57:56.000Violent tendencies, and then you do work to fix things.
00:57:58.000Maybe. I'm not going to legislate the exact thing now, but the point is they have to pay their debt through suffering.
00:58:21.000That's why I'm saying if we can rewire their brain with an AI brain chip, you're done.
00:58:26.000The 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?
00:58:37.000So 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.
00:58:45.000There'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.
00:58:53.000Right, 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.
00:59:04.000At changing behavior than a reward or a variable ratio reward system.
00:59:08.000So 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?
00:59:22.000Because the issue with the kind of utilitarian calculus...
00:59:26.000Is 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.
01:00:16.000With 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.
01:00:28.000It's just taking someone that's dangerous off the street and putting them away.
01:00:32.000So I don't know that reform should be an actual point.
01:00:39.000I think taking them off, if they do get reformed, great.
01:00:43.000If they do their time and they come out and they're like, you know what?
01:00:46.000I learned and I changed and blah, blah, blah, fine.
01:00:49.000But I think the most important thing is taking them out of society where they're a danger.
01:00:54.000Do you know, Carl Benjamin, why we call, people say, they see the wind turbines, they call them windmills?
01:01:03.000Well, I mean, I assume it's going to be something to do with the fact that we used to grind flour with windmills.
01:01:57.000That's also a good idea, to be honest.
01:01:58.000The idea was that you were paying your debt to society by doing labor for the community.
01:02:03.000But the point being, every time you commit a crime against society, you incur a debt that you need to pay off.
01:02:09.000I 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.
01:02:22.000Watermill. We've never advanced a water mill linguistically into anything else.
01:02:27.000We don't say, like, you know, go buy me a water mill.
01:02:29.000Like, we have a treadmill and we have windmills.
01:02:32.000I do think it's funny when people look at wind turbines and they're like, windmills.
01:02:36.000Additionally, 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.
01:03:29.000With all this Studio Ghibli stuff that's coming out, people are taking the Studio Ghibli memes.
01:03:36.000And they're putting them into other AIs that turn them into videos.
01:03:40.000Then you've got the AI voice generator.
01:03:43.000I think we are, it's closer than we realize.
01:03:46.000Because I was saying, like, in a couple years, you're going to be able to go, Disney is not going to be Disney anymore.
01:03:50.000It's going to be an IP storage locker, basically.
01:03:54.000So 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.
01:03:59.000But if Disney pays for a license for GPT on their servers, you can.
01:04:05.000So I think we're really close to a company like Disney.
01:04:09.000And Disney, if you're listening, here you go.
01:04:12.000You open up Disney +, you've got all your shows, and then it's got make your own show.
01:04:17.000And 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.
01:04:26.000And not Topher Grace Venom, Tom Hardy Venom.
01:04:29.000And give me Mary Jane and Gwen, and give me like a lover's tryst.
01:04:35.000Random, it'll generate it, and then you'll get to watch that movie.
01:04:38.000That is going to be all entertainment.
01:04:39.000Have you not seen Elon doing the AI video game generation?
01:04:43.000Eventually, it's all going to be tailor-made to the individual preference.
01:04:46.000Bespoke. But that's going to have some serious knock-on effects, right?
01:04:50.000Because, I mean, one of the ways that we relate to one another is shared cultural experiences.
01:04:56.000If people don't have shared cultural experiences anymore, what the hell are we going to talk about?
01:05:01.000Yes, I refer to this as the severance phenomenon.
01:05:04.000Yes, where people desperately try to make a show happen, despite the fact that it's not succeeding.
01:05:09.000I haven't watched this at all, but I've seen you going off on it.
01:05:12.000So, 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.
01:05:22.000But the issue I take with severance is that it's not a bad show, it's just not a good show.
01:05:26.000It's like, it's on in the background, and you're like, okay, and periodically going...
01:09:17.000I 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.
01:09:26.000Take 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.
01:09:34.000It breaks the whole thing down and then rewrites a new version of it just for you.
01:11:01.000She then grabs two of the buckets, and they're very light, and she puts them down.
01:11:04.000And then she shrugs at the guy and goes, and then she points over there to another location.
01:11:09.000He turns around, and when she does, they spin the whole cart around.
01:11:12.000She 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.
01:12:45.000It's this constant leveling down effect in all arts.
01:12:49.000And it's not just music, it's computer games, it's movies, it's literature.
01:12:53.000When 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.
01:13:33.000When you go into any AI image generator and say make an image of a clock at...
01:13:38.0005.15pm, it'll always put the hands at the exact same places, and it'll tell you it's not.
01:13:43.000And the reason is because of the amalgam of images it's trained off of.
01:13:48.000What 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?
01:13:59.000The same thing that happens when you cannibalize it.
01:14:32.000And for a person in the past, like, why is everybody wearing corn?
01:14:36.000Because the United States subsidizes corn and uses corn products for everything.
01:14:40.000So 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.
01:14:49.000So what it would do is it would start to prioritize Corn for production, for art, for fashion.
01:14:55.000And then after 50 years, you know, two generations go by.
01:17:15.000Yes, Snow White is bombing at the box office.
01:17:18.000It is one of the lowest rated films on IMDb.
01:17:22.000And 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.
01:17:49.000Yeah, 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.
01:18:04.000This is called adult responsibility and accountability, and her actions clearly hurt the film's box office.
01:18:10.000Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions.
01:18:14.000Tens 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.
01:19:09.000You 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.
01:19:17.000And I think that there are people who are genuinely emotionally traumatized by what they're doing to these films.
01:19:25.000Because I took my son to his boxing lesson the other day, right?
01:19:28.000And we ride our bikes down to this boxing lesson.
01:19:30.000On the way back, we go past a bus stop.
01:19:32.000And in this bus stop is a Snow White advert.
01:20:12.000But it doesn't hold a kind of romantic position in my heart.
01:20:15.000Whereas for a lot of young women, I think it does.
01:20:18.000It also, I mean, these newer remakes of older films, it doesn't feel like they're after the same kind of value setting.
01:20:25.000It really seems virtue signaling and shallow.
01:20:29.000It doesn't have the same kind of weight underneath.
01:20:34.000Let's take a look at what Snow White was.
01:20:37.000You 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.
01:22:32.000What about, what's your face with the long hair?
01:22:34.000Well, that's because the guy goes and he's like, put on your hair, I want to come bang it.
01:22:38.000That's the woman's story, is that the guy pursues her because she's so important.
01:22:43.000Jordan 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...
01:22:55.000Is that the one, or is it Sleeping Beauty, where she gives her a mirror?
01:23:02.000Well, there's the mirror on the wall that tells the queen that, ah, you're good looking, but sleeping...
01:27:30.000And 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.
01:27:38.000And then in the video, he's like, I pulled it off the world record for whatever this move is called.
01:27:43.000And then the next clip is him showing his broken ankle.
01:27:49.000And I was thinking about it because as skateboarders, you land the trick, you ride away uninjured.
01:27:54.000Maybe the board breaks, you ride away, you're fine.
01:27:56.000But 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.
01:28:03.000There was one the other day where some British parkour guy was climbing a bridge in Spain.
01:28:16.000Was it Danny Wei jumped the Great Wall of China on a skateboard?
01:28:22.000Sprained his ankles, went back and did it again because it was so awesome?
01:28:26.000Yeah, 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.
01:28:40.000He 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.
01:28:52.000Yeah, that was Jake Brown at the X Games.
01:28:54.000But yeah, he pretty much fell off of a building.
01:31:13.000Force is coercion, because for the feminine, it's typically smaller.
01:31:19.000That's how it has to kind of do what it does.
01:31:22.000So 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.
01:31:33.000It kind of follows that train of the feminine neurology.
01:31:35.000I mean, I think that's an accurate description either way, right?
01:31:38.000Because that's very clearly what we're watching.
01:33:20.000That was a big issue, and I said that all the time back then, because I was still supporting the Democratic Party up to 2020.
01:33:26.000One 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?
01:33:34.000He's like, oh, I'm going to do this thing with Glenn Beck, and he's like, oh, cool, cool.
01:33:37.000He's like, yeah, I'm kind of independent.
01:33:40.000He's like, I like Trump, but man, I wish you would shut up.
01:33:45.000And he was like a Latino guy, and I was like, I started laughing, I was like, yup.
01:34:15.000But the problem isn't Trump himself, right?
01:34:17.000The 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.
01:34:31.000You need to show that kind of backbone to restrain your own...
01:36:32.000And, 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?
01:36:41.000You didn't know what he was going to do tomorrow.
01:36:43.000Is Trump going to send troops across Canadian border?
01:36:45.000I mean, it's a non-zero chance, right?
01:37:22.000No, it's just that when I look at the UK, I am sad.
01:37:27.000The 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...
01:37:40.000Because, 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.
01:39:14.000But 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.
01:39:39.000So he's not going to align with Trump.
01:39:41.000Instead, 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.
01:39:50.000But 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.
01:40:05.000And also what he's done is he's handed the sort of nationalistic perspective to the liberals.
01:40:10.000If 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?
01:40:20.000He would have come out as a radical right-winger and they would have been like, oh no, God, you're crazy.
01:41:49.000Hopefully, 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.
01:42:31.000But 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.
01:42:40.000We need people of principle to push out the neolibs and the far-left crackpots.
01:44:10.000I 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.
01:44:26.000Midway through Trump's administration, it's now appearing in all these places.
01:44:29.000By the end of Trump's administration, it's everywhere.
01:44:32.000And then it's like, okay, we cannot let this keep going.
01:44:40.000On the technical stuff, Trump is doing a superb job, right?
01:44:44.000On all the actual decisions that he personally is making, and most of his team are making, he's doing a spectacular job.
01:44:50.000It's just there is a means of communication that the The Europeans and the Canadian types, they don't get it.
01:44:58.000And 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.
01:45:07.000So they wouldn't be able to just sit there and whine about him.
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01:50:10.000No. 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.
01:50:31.000Everybody knows this about Taco Bell is that it's like five ingredients prepared 50 different ways with different names for the exact same things.
01:52:32.000Waiting. Soapy Enigma says, hey, just wanted to shout out the Boonies HQ Discord.
01:52:37.000There's some changes coming to make things a bit cooler, so come join us over there.
01:52:41.000Come share your tricks, and let's boost the space.
01:52:44.000Yeah, 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?
01:52:53.000Yeah, 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.
01:53:07.000We want to do something like that with the Timcast Discord, where we would give a $10,000 grant.
01:54:12.000I 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.
01:54:22.000And then I was like, I will never get a divorce.
01:58:10.000The Romulans, which are supposed to be a civilization of people driven by passion and impulse, attacked a Klingon civilian colony, largely women and children.
01:58:20.000When 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.
01:58:36.000to try and save as many people as possible, even though they were enemies with the Klingons.
01:58:40.000The Klingon Empire saw that as an act of honor and sacrifice.
01:58:43.000The 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.
01:58:51.000The Klingons then opened up communication.
02:01:39.000Can't wait until I can show that to my kids.
02:01:41.000The Human Centipede 2. Mr. Spensar says, Hey Carl, happy to see you outside of the tax prison.
02:01:46.000You had a chat about responsibility to civilization.
02:01:54.000Well, congratulations on getting your copy of Islander 3. Well done about the kids, too.
02:02:05.000So 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.
02:02:13.000We want to make a really, really beautiful thing that has deep philosophical essays in it and poetry and all these other things.
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02:02:24.000So we were like, okay, we'll give it a go.
02:02:25.000And the first one sold like 6,500 copies.
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