Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Harris CNN Interview ALREADY SLAMMED Over Preview PROVING Hypocrisy w-Joel Pollak | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 I don't even want to say it.

00:00:14.000 The big news, the only thing anyone cares about is that Kamala Harris did a pre-recorded 18-minute interview with Tim Waltz, and that's like the headline.

00:00:22.000 And I'm sitting here being like, is this really the big story?

00:00:24.000 I mean, there's a bunch of little stories, there's a bunch of small stories, but the big political one that everyone wants to talk about is that Kamala Harris did an 18-minute pre-recorded interview, and it's just completely meaningless.

00:00:34.000 Except for the fact that we get to rag on her, and she's already getting roasted, because in a preview clip published by CNN, she says that her values haven't changed, despite flip-flopping on literally every position and adopting Donald Trump's positions.

00:00:47.000 So, at the very least, we get to roast her.

00:00:50.000 Now, that interview will be airing later tonight, but we do have a clip from it, so we'll talk about that.

00:00:53.000 Now, Donald Trump has proposed 10 questions, and they're pretty good.

00:00:56.000 Basically, it's like, if you're going to fix the economy, why aren't you doing it now?

00:01:01.000 You've been in office for three and a half years.

00:01:02.000 And I really don't think Dana Bash over at CNN is going to ask any real questions, nor, honestly, do I even care.

00:01:09.000 But there's some interesting news.

00:01:10.000 is going to remain on the ballot in North Carolina and some other swing states.

00:01:10.000 RFK Jr.

00:01:13.000 And the question is, if that's the case, they say, we can't change the ballots.

00:01:17.000 RFK's on it.

00:01:17.000 It's just too bad.

00:01:19.000 What about Joe Biden?

00:01:20.000 How are they taking Joe Biden's name off the ballot for Kamala Harris but leaving RFK Jr.' 's on?

00:01:25.000 Doesn't quite make sense.

00:01:25.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:26.000 And then a big story is Donald Trump once again getting into it with pro-lifers.

00:01:32.000 He wants the government or insurance companies to cover the cost of IVF.

00:01:36.000 Trump is correct. 0.86

00:01:37.000 And I think his position on this is right.

00:01:41.000 But we'll talk about it and we'll get into why that should be the case or what he's actually suggesting about it.

00:01:47.000 And there are still many pro-lifers basically saying, we don't have any loyalty to Trump.

00:01:51.000 We will not support him unless he is anti-abortion, which is like, Okay, I don't know who else you're going to vote for, but we'll talk about it.

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00:02:44.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Joel Pollack.

00:02:48.000 How are you doing?

00:02:49.000 Good to be here.

00:02:49.000 Absolutely.

00:02:50.000 What do you do?

00:02:50.000 Who are you?

00:02:51.000 I am the Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News.

00:02:53.000 We like Breitbart.

00:02:54.000 Yeah.

00:02:55.000 And the author of the new book, The Agenda, What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days in Office.

00:03:01.000 So this is basically the new Project 2025?

00:03:03.000 This was written before Project 2025 came out.

00:03:06.000 I actually didn't know about Project 2025 when I wrote this book.

00:03:09.000 I was just angry about Trump being convicted in Manhattan.

00:03:12.000 And I thought, instead of being angry, let me do something productive.

00:03:16.000 So I thought ahead to January 20th and thought, what does it feel like?

00:03:18.000 What does it look like when Donald Trump takes the oath of office?

00:03:20.000 What can he do?

00:03:21.000 What can he offer people to get them over this obsession with the court cases and the polls and the pundits and Kamala Harris's CNN interview?

00:03:27.000 And just talk to people about what you're going to do and what you can deliver.

00:03:31.000 And I visualized that moment and immediately I realized the media narrative was going to shift as soon as he took the oath of office.

00:03:38.000 They want to talk about the candidates for 2028.

00:03:39.000 They're not going to let him govern. 0.97

00:03:41.000 They're going to call him a lame duck.

00:03:42.000 So I said, okay, he's got to come in explosively with a list of things that he can do in the first week, really.

00:03:49.000 And so I've got over 200 executive orders, policies, actions that he can take within the constitutional limits.

00:03:55.000 Arrests that he can make.

00:03:56.000 Arrests.

00:03:58.000 Investigations to begin, pardons to give.

00:04:02.000 All kinds of things he can do right away, and it's a positive vision.

00:04:06.000 It's basically a formula, I think, for restoring America to what it ought to be.

00:04:12.000 Right on.

00:04:12.000 And he can do it right away.

00:04:14.000 And he has to, because the pressure to sideline him is going to be incredibly intense.

00:04:19.000 Well, we'll get into it.

00:04:20.000 Ian's hanging out.

00:04:20.000 It should be fun.

00:04:21.000 Do you have the pardon of Ross Albrecht by name in there?

00:04:23.000 I do.

00:04:24.000 I do.

00:04:25.000 Chapter one.

00:04:26.000 Chapter one.

00:04:27.000 Let's see the page.

00:04:28.000 I have it right there.

00:04:29.000 Ross.

00:04:29.000 Libertarians everywhere are waiting with bated breath.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, page four.

00:04:33.000 That's it.

00:04:34.000 Item number seven, yeah.

00:04:35.000 Well, I'm commuting the sentence, not pardoning.

00:04:39.000 Release and... Yeah.

00:04:40.000 Alright, so Ian's here.

00:04:41.000 I'm here.

00:04:42.000 I've done it.

00:04:43.000 I did a cover of My Hero last night.

00:04:46.000 Take that, Dave, girl! 0.99

00:04:47.000 It's fire on YouTube, Twitter, or on X, rather, and Instagram.

00:04:51.000 I uploaded it.

00:04:52.000 It's doing really well on YouTube.

00:04:53.000 And then I did a cover of Live's Lightning Crashes.

00:04:56.000 Oh, man.

00:04:57.000 Oh, it's so good.

00:04:58.000 It's just, what a great song.

00:05:00.000 I was hanging out with Richie the other day and he, Richie Jackson, he was just like, man, what's that one song?

00:05:04.000 Like, uh, you know, lightning.

00:05:06.000 Cause I'm like, oh yeah, lightning crashes.

00:05:09.000 And he's like, what a great song.

00:05:10.000 He's talking about lightning following like the clouds, the thunder rolling in and then forces flowing from the center of the earth.

00:05:17.000 And it's like, yo, the center of the earth is magnetically connected to the clouds and the lightning.

00:05:22.000 Did he know that when he wrote it, or was he just feeling it because I can feel it?

00:05:25.000 That's a good song.

00:05:26.000 Great song.

00:05:27.000 Happy to be here.

00:05:28.000 It's legendary.

00:05:29.000 I'm Hannah Klob-Riblow.

00:05:30.000 I'm a writer for scnr.com, Scnr News.

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00:05:32.000 At Tim Kast News, let's get started.

00:05:34.000 Here we go!

00:05:34.000 The Daily Mail's got the first story.

00:05:37.000 Kamala Harris says, quote, my values haven't changed in first interview as the candidate despite flip-flopping on many of her policies since 2020.

00:05:45.000 We actually have the clip.

00:05:46.000 I don't care to play it for the most part, but CNN is running this preview, so... ...look at some of the changes that you've made, that you've explained some of here, in your policy.

00:05:59.000 Is it because you have more experience now and you've learned more about the information?

00:06:04.000 Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary?

00:06:08.000 And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?

00:06:15.000 Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.

00:06:24.000 I don't want to listen to any more of this.

00:06:27.000 We were getting asked, like, are you guys going to play the interview on the show?

00:06:30.000 No.

00:06:31.000 It was live, I would watch it, but pre-recorded, I feel like it's gonna be edited.

00:06:34.000 Like that, it seemed like they cut to her talking and not, that wasn't like, didn't feel like a flow.

00:06:39.000 Well, she had to look at Tim Walls and he was like, it's okay, you can do it.

00:06:42.000 And she said, my values haven't changed.

00:06:44.000 And she looked back at him for support.

00:06:46.000 I don't think we should rag on Kamala Harris for this. 1.00

00:06:49.000 I think we should say that's very honorable of you, Vice President Harris, that your views have not changed and that you will so strongly assert that you are for the Green New Deal and open borders and decriminalizing border crossings and providing health care to illegal immigrants and that you're in favor of, you know, Bidenomics and these policies.

00:07:09.000 So everything now That has gone wrong, that you and Medicare for All, don't forget, all the things that you're supporting and have support and your views haven't changed.

00:07:18.000 Well, that makes you an inviolable candidate.

00:07:21.000 I wonder how she feels about the Venezuelan gangs overrunning Colorado.

00:07:25.000 Hijacking school buses in California.

00:07:28.000 Is it California or Colorado? 0.91

00:07:28.000 Illegal immigrants. 0.91

00:07:29.000 California is where the hijackings... Really? 0.98

00:07:33.000 The Colorado is where the Venezuelans control the apartment complex. 1.00

00:07:36.000 Well, what interested me was the staging of the interview.

00:07:39.000 If you look at how they're sitting.

00:07:41.000 First of all, they chose a dark set.

00:07:42.000 I don't know why they did that.

00:07:44.000 You know, you're the joy candidate. 0.90

00:07:45.000 But she's evil. 1.00

00:07:46.000 Yeah, it was like Cruella de Vil.

00:07:48.000 And then you've got this black tabletop, and Tim Walz sitting there kind of bolt upright, looking much bigger than her.

00:07:55.000 She's far from the camera, so she looks smaller than she actually is, but she looks diminished. 0.99

00:08:00.000 And the table's above her waist, so it almost looks like a kid at the grown-ups table for the first time.

00:08:06.000 It really doesn't look good.

00:08:08.000 I don't know who made those decisions, but If it was CNN, maybe they're trying to tank her campaign because it did not look presidential. 0.99

00:08:16.000 She looked like she was trying to prove she belonged and couldn't. 0.81

00:08:20.000 She's the smallest one there. 0.55

00:08:21.000 She shrinks really in that dark set.

00:08:24.000 And this is a much more informal set, but when you're running for president, you know, if you look in the background in the CNN set, they have all these coffee mugs strewn about.

00:08:34.000 It looks kind of messy and sloppy.

00:08:36.000 It's a cafe without people.

00:08:37.000 It's really weird.

00:08:38.000 It is weird.

00:08:39.000 I agree with you.

00:08:40.000 The lighting is very strange in this set.

00:08:42.000 I think it looks to me kind of like they might be in the box of some kind of stadium.

00:08:46.000 If you look out the windows, it looks like they're seats.

00:08:49.000 She's also dressed in grey, which Kamala Harris wears a lot of grey, but in this setting, it makes her look kind of... 1.00

00:08:54.000 Older, it's very dark.

00:08:56.000 I mean, in contrast, Dana is in this like bright purple suit sitting a little bit back from the table. 0.99

00:09:01.000 She just looks like she has more presence and that's not great when you're the person conducting the interview and you're sort of outshining the, I guess, presidential hopeful in the room.

00:09:09.000 What Obama always did was sit in an armchair.

00:09:13.000 You know, you want the Full view of the candidate, but also the kind of informality that you can get, you can move, you can change positions.

00:09:20.000 We don't see her doing anything there.

00:09:22.000 She's basically just peering over the side of the table.

00:09:24.000 I think it would be absolutely amazing if she just embraced like a super villain arc.

00:09:28.000 Just dark rings under her eyes, talks about just... 0.93

00:09:34.000 All of these policies as bluntly and as honestly as possible?

00:09:37.000 Well, honestly, we're just going to keep the border open and let millions of people flood into the country. 0.99

00:09:41.000 That's what we've been doing.

00:09:42.000 It's what we intend to keep doing.

00:09:43.000 If you vote for me, it will continue.

00:09:45.000 And then we'll put them in your schools and your homes, displace you, and we'll defund the police so that you have to deal with the crime that ensues in your neighborhoods.

00:09:51.000 And then after the system collapses, we'll create a communist system in its place.

00:09:55.000 We'll be unburdened by what has been.

00:09:57.000 And that's what it means to be unburdened by what has been.

00:09:59.000 That would be wonderfully overt if she were. 0.91

00:10:02.000 But, you know, you mentioned the Joy candidate.

00:10:04.000 This is tripping me out.

00:10:06.000 I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Strength Through Joy?

00:10:08.000 The Nazi campaign.

00:10:08.000 The Nazi thing.

00:10:09.000 It was a state-funded leisure campaign of the Nazis all about joy. 0.96

00:10:13.000 Bringing joy to the people.

00:10:14.000 Getting them to look away.

00:10:16.000 The ball's over here.

00:10:17.000 Look over there.

00:10:18.000 I have been saying this.

00:10:19.000 The Pride progress flag is no different than the Nazi flag. 0.82

00:10:25.000 The swastika at the time, before the Germans, swastikas were all over the United States.

00:10:31.000 Go to Chicago, you'll see buildings with swastikas built into the bricks, and they have to cover them up.

00:10:36.000 Famously, in the south side of Chicago, there's a building, I think you can actually Google search it, where they had a swastika built into the bricks, because it's pre-World War II, and then they hammered wood into the gaps to make it into a square.

00:10:48.000 to cover it up.

00:10:49.000 There's an antique store in Austin.

00:10:51.000 I walked into it, and there's swastikas everywhere.

00:10:53.000 And I asked the guy, I was like, hey, don't you, like, people get mad at you?

00:10:56.000 And he's this, like, hipster Austin guy.

00:10:58.000 He's like, no, that's BS, man.

00:11:00.000 He's like, he was showing all the stuff they had, and he was like, 1910, every house had this stuff everywhere.

00:11:07.000 It was a symbol of, like, hope and peace and tranquility and luck.

00:11:12.000 There's one Chicago building that still has them.

00:11:14.000 I don't think they covered them up.

00:11:15.000 Jefferson?

00:11:16.000 No, the Baha'i Temple, which is About as peace and love as you can possibly get in the northern suburbs of Chicago near the lake.

00:11:23.000 I think it's in the movie Risky Business or one of those great John Hughes films or John Evnett films from the 80s.

00:11:28.000 But anyway, you can go there.

00:11:29.000 It's got swastikas in the stone of the building and it was built, I think, in the 20s.

00:11:33.000 But there's a bunch of buildings like that, actually.

00:11:35.000 So me and my friends, growing up in Chicago, we'd point them out like, hey, residential homes.

00:11:39.000 We'll be like, hey, look at that one.

00:11:40.000 Because back then it didn't mean what it means today.

00:11:43.000 Rainbows and the progress pride flag is no different.

00:11:43.000 Right.

00:11:46.000 It's a symbol of a political ideology of authoritarianism.

00:11:50.000 It represents something certainly different in its core ideology, but the authoritarianism is the same.

00:11:55.000 Adopting this symbol that represents like harmony and peace and luck and beauty.

00:12:01.000 And then you see in the UK they're flying these flags everywhere.

00:12:04.000 Now they're doing the joy campaign or whatever it is.

00:12:07.000 It is very similar.

00:12:10.000 Again, I will stress, the ideology at its core is relatively different.

00:12:15.000 Certainly there are overlaps, but come on, human beings overlap in their ideologies.

00:12:18.000 You know, liberals and conservatives have overlaps too.

00:12:21.000 It's an authoritarian ideology.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, you don't have to tell people to be joyful.

00:12:25.000 If things are good, they become joyful by nature.

00:12:28.000 You don't get up on stage and say, we're going to focus on joy, and everyone's like, I feel like that's when there's a bunch of smiling and laughing.

00:12:35.000 Haven't you ever seen the Ren and Stimpy Happy Happy Joy Joy?

00:12:37.000 Yeah.

00:12:37.000 When, what is it, Stimpy sticks the hat on Ren and forces him to be happy the whole time and sing the song?

00:12:43.000 Oh God, yeah.

00:12:44.000 That's sort of what the Biden-Harris administration has been doing for a long time now, right?

00:12:49.000 We'll get these abysmal jobs numbers and they'll be like, everything's fine, don't even worry about it.

00:12:54.000 People will say, oh, it's really expensive.

00:12:55.000 And they'll be like, no, you're wrong.

00:12:57.000 Everything is OK.

00:12:58.000 I mean, she is just adapting a strategy she already uses in her day job being the vice president. 0.98

00:13:04.000 The pacification through emotional manipulation.

00:13:07.000 It's like those coexist bumper stickers.

00:13:09.000 When you see those, they mean everyone except you.

00:13:12.000 Right.

00:13:13.000 So it's a group identification tool, but this joy thing really did come up.

00:13:19.000 I was at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, and everybody was talking about joy, joy, joy.

00:13:26.000 But the one thing that unites the Democratic Party isn't actually joy, it's hatred and fear of Donald Trump.

00:13:30.000 They're absolutely obsessed with it, and they really couldn't hide it.

00:13:35.000 Very excited.

00:13:36.000 I would almost call the joy part of it relief, like now they have a candidate with a pulse.

00:13:40.000 They're not going to crash entirely.

00:13:44.000 But there wasn't really much joy holding everyone together.

00:13:48.000 It was a very anti-Trump feeling in the room.

00:13:52.000 And it wasn't actually as much fun as the Republican convention.

00:13:54.000 And I'm trying to be objective here.

00:13:56.000 There have been years where the Democrats threw a fantastic convention and the Republicans

00:13:59.000 had a very mediocre one or a kind of very subdued one.

00:14:02.000 Actually in 2016 when Trump was the candidate for the first time, the convention for Republicans

00:14:08.000 in Cleveland was really not so great.

00:14:11.000 And that was partly because all the money stayed away.

00:14:14.000 So there were no parties because they were terrified.

00:14:16.000 All the lobbyists and the donors were terrified that Trump was going to crash and burn.

00:14:19.000 So they stayed away.

00:14:20.000 The Democrats had a party in Philadelphia.

00:14:23.000 They lost anyway, but they had a great convention.

00:14:25.000 This was the opposite.

00:14:26.000 Milwaukee Republican convention.

00:14:28.000 They had like a street fair inside the convention perimeter with booths and everything.

00:14:28.000 Awesome.

00:14:32.000 And the Democrats had nothing.

00:14:33.000 Like basically it was a couple of taco trucks and a porta potty.

00:14:36.000 That's basically what they had.

00:14:37.000 They had cheeseburgers with gluten-free buns at the RNC. 1.00

00:14:41.000 Oh, that's some shit. 1.00

00:14:42.000 That's how open-minded Republicans are. 1.00

00:14:43.000 Make America healthy again.

00:14:44.000 Yeah, but they had beer and local coffee, and they had souvenirs, and they had local religious groups talking to people, and... And they had outdoor podcasts in 100-degree weather for some reason, but hey, man, you know, they were ready.

00:14:56.000 Have you pulled up and, like, really shown people the Strength Through Joy Nazi campaign? 0.74

00:15:01.000 It shows a swastika on the Wikipedia.

00:15:03.000 I don't know if that's safe to play on TV, but I'm sure it is.

00:15:07.000 I mean, it is disturbing as hell that they used the tool of joy.

00:15:11.000 Strength through joy.

00:15:13.000 Yeah, but, like, I'm gonna be honest, man, like, you can't just say because Nazis said joy, no one's ever allowed to say joy.

00:15:18.000 But it's the authoritarian mentioning of it.

00:15:20.000 It's, like, the forcing it on the population to pacify them that's terrifying, you know?

00:15:25.000 It was promoting Nazism through subsidizing leisure activities, which is different from just saying she's the joy candidate. 0.69

00:15:31.000 Yeah, they were subsidizing.

00:15:32.000 They're actually using state funds.

00:15:34.000 You gotta be careful, man.

00:15:36.000 Like, you know, I'm sure Hitler liked dogs. 0.79

00:15:38.000 You know what I mean?

00:15:38.000 It doesn't mean people like dogs are Nazis.

00:15:40.000 He was a vegetarian.

00:15:41.000 It's not common for politicians to come and be like, we're gonna focus on happiness this campaign.

00:15:46.000 It's happiness, happiness, happiness. 1.00

00:15:47.000 The amount of times I said joy at that stupid convention was like, Dude. 1.00

00:15:51.000 Manipulative. 1.00

00:15:52.000 But she's just trying to be Obama 2.0. 1.00

00:15:53.000 I mean, his was hope, right?

00:15:55.000 Which, you know, in a lot of ways is a more optimistic word, the same way joy would be.

00:15:58.000 She's just trying to adapt some sort of short slogan and then position herself as this, like, you know, hardworking, comes from, you know, a more challenging upbringing person who's got this sort of derpy white guy with her.

00:16:11.000 And she's going to, you know, make the White House fun again or whatever Obama allegedly did. 1.00

00:16:15.000 Mafa.

00:16:16.000 Mafa, make America fun again.

00:16:20.000 The reason they chose the Joy candidacy thing is because she cackles like a fiend and they needed a way to spin it. 0.98

00:16:25.000 She's laughing because she's having fun.

00:16:25.000 Right.

00:16:27.000 She's just, what is it like? 0.69

00:16:29.000 She's a cackling fiend. 1.00

00:16:31.000 When it's like you're just out of your mind.

00:16:32.000 She's ecstatic.

00:16:34.000 It's the ecstasy campaign.

00:16:35.000 Yeah, Joy is an ephemeral emotion.

00:16:38.000 you feel it at brief, intense moments when something happens.

00:16:42.000 It's not something you necessarily feel over a long time.

00:16:46.000 Happiness is more kind of a long-term thing.

00:16:48.000 Greatness is a long-term thing.

00:16:49.000 Joy is like momentary.

00:16:50.000 Yeah.

00:16:52.000 Joyful.

00:16:54.000 Joyful.

00:16:55.000 When do we feel joyful?

00:16:56.000 When do we describe ourselves?

00:16:57.000 In your eyes, in your firstborn child.

00:16:59.000 Right.

00:17:00.000 Things like that, I think.

00:17:01.000 You know, beating the video game?

00:17:03.000 I don't know, maybe.

00:17:04.000 Maybe that's more like fulfillment, accomplishment.

00:17:06.000 That's accomplished, right.

00:17:07.000 Yeah, accomplishment.

00:17:08.000 I think joy, I mean, it's really, you've got kids.

00:17:11.000 Christmas?

00:17:12.000 Yeah, things like...

00:17:13.000 Family time like the greatest moments of like hugging your your mom because she got you that gift that you've always wanted Things like that.

00:17:21.000 I don't know a joy.

00:17:23.000 Yeah love and joy I feel it sometimes when I'm playing music like while I'm like like really my body starts to like sway with like vibration I'm like There's some sort of, but that more isn't like ecstasy than joy.

00:17:35.000 Force is swirling from the center of the earth again.

00:17:37.000 I can feel it.

00:17:38.000 Yeah.

00:17:39.000 Thomas Hobbes had this incredible idea, which is that happiness over a long period of time has its own noun, which he called felicity.

00:17:48.000 So that was the aim of the well-governed society was to experience felicity, which was a kind of higher level of happiness because it was so sustained.

00:17:56.000 It wasn't the huge intense excitement of winning a World Series.

00:18:02.000 I know they didn't play baseball then, but it wasn't that intense.

00:18:06.000 It was childbirth sort of joy, but it was good fortune over a long period of time.

00:18:11.000 And I think, although he doesn't articulate it this way, I think that what Trump is offering is that and saying, you can create your own happiness in my vision of America.

00:18:22.000 Whereas Kamala Harris is saying, let's all get together and do this thing together and do the joy together.

00:18:26.000 Let's do the joy, people.

00:18:27.000 Let's do the joy now.

00:18:28.000 We're doing joy now.

00:18:30.000 And it is very contrived.

00:18:31.000 That doesn't mean it's not real to the people who are doing it.

00:18:34.000 But it is something you have to choose to participate in, and it only happens in that political setting.

00:18:39.000 It doesn't happen in general.

00:18:40.000 Did you guys ever hear about that dancing plague?

00:18:42.000 It's like a legend, where all these people were on a bridge in medieval Europe, and they started dancing, and they couldn't stop, and they died or something.

00:18:48.000 What was that about?

00:18:49.000 It's about Urgot, I think.

00:18:50.000 I don't know.

00:18:51.000 All I know is there's this story where people started dancing, and then there was a mass hysteria where people just couldn't stop dancing, and they were losing their minds, and then they all died.

00:18:59.000 Dancing plague.

00:19:00.000 Yeah, something like that.

00:19:01.000 I wonder if that is what the Democratic Party is.

00:19:04.000 Like a large-scale mass hysteria.

00:19:06.000 I mean, we call it mass formation psychosis.

00:19:08.000 So there was this great novel by Norman Rush called Mating, which is a romance novel, but he makes this incredible political point, which is that the left lives for what he calls the insurrectionary moment.

00:19:20.000 The moment where the riot happens and you break through the doors of the jailhouse or you tear down the fence.

00:19:28.000 Pull down the flag from the flagpole, and it's that moment of rebellion, and that's the joy, that's the ecstatic momentary joy, and then you don't know what to do after that.

00:19:34.000 So he's like, these socialists live for the insurrectionary moment, that moment of ecstasy when the group is doing something transgressive, and that's exciting, but the hard stuff of governing and trying to run a society, they can't do, and you can't do it if you're trying to do it for everybody.

00:19:50.000 Let's pull up this story from the post-millennial.

00:19:52.000 Trump campaign proposes 10 questions for Kamala's first interview since taking over the Democratic nomination for president. 0.71

00:19:58.000 It's no coincidence that Kamala's first interview is scheduled for the Thursday night before Labor Day weekend.

00:20:04.000 They already hope it gets lost and it hasn't even aired yet.

00:20:06.000 And I will confirm this, having worked in marketing.

00:20:09.000 Dude.

00:20:10.000 Thursday night before the Labor Day weekend.

00:20:13.000 You know what everyone's doing right now?

00:20:15.000 They're packing.

00:20:16.000 They're not watching the interview.

00:20:18.000 Tomorrow, I know this because we're packing, tomorrow they're gonna be sitting there staring at their watch waiting for the day to end so they can get in their car and try and beat traffic because it's Labor Day weekend and they're gonna be getting out of here.

00:20:27.000 PSA was predicting today is the busiest travel day of the year.

00:20:30.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:20:30.000 Did you hear that? 0.71

00:20:31.000 Yeah, that's because you're supposed to be focusing on work.

00:20:34.000 Ian, what are you doing with this thunder?

00:20:35.000 We're in the middle of recording.

00:20:36.000 I need a channel if you guys want me to part the clouds.

00:20:38.000 I thought you would come prepared for work.

00:20:40.000 I might not be very social.

00:20:41.000 Did that lightning strike?

00:20:42.000 That had to have been really close to us.

00:20:44.000 Did that pick up on the show?

00:20:45.000 Because Ian can control the weather, and he was talking about lightning crashing, and now here we are, Ian.

00:20:51.000 You mentioned Labor Day and how people are actually treating it like Leisure Day, and I'm like, yo, that day is supposed to be about work and focus and all these people trying to dip out and get out of town is like, what is this?

00:20:59.000 It's not leisure, you know?

00:21:01.000 The truth is Ian can't control the weather.

00:21:02.000 I actually checked the forecast a couple days ago and they predicted thunderstorms tonight, so we prepared for it.

00:21:07.000 I kind of want the rain now because I think the plants need it.

00:21:10.000 I've been looking around at the greenery and it's like, I can get it away if you want.

00:21:14.000 Anyway, let's talk about the questions that Trump's asking.

00:21:17.000 The first is, if you are capable of lowering prices for Americans, why haven't you done it in the three and a half years you've been in office?

00:21:23.000 You say housing affordability would be a day one priority.

00:21:25.000 Why isn't it a priority now?

00:21:27.000 These are funny questions.

00:21:28.000 You co-sponsored Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. 0.54

00:21:31.000 Do you still support these multi-trillion dollar takeovers of the American economy?

00:21:34.000 And there's a handful of other ones that are particularly good.

00:21:37.000 But I gotta be honest, we all know these questions will not be asked.

00:21:41.000 I mean, maybe, why did you conceal Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the American people?

00:21:47.000 Why did she?

00:21:49.000 They all did.

00:21:50.000 It's also just part of the shared consciousness of joy.

00:21:54.000 It was this weird, creepy, almost cult-like, to use a word they often throw at Trump supporters, cult-like, the leader is fine, everything will be fine.

00:22:04.000 Pete Buttigieg was my favorite.

00:22:06.000 Literally two days before Biden dropped out, he was on Bill Maher's show talking about how Joe Biden was great.

00:22:11.000 Maybe he had a bad debate.

00:22:12.000 Yeah, he's old, but he's incredible.

00:22:15.000 Not only is he incredible, he's better than people who are in their 30s and 40s.

00:22:18.000 He's just sharper than everybody.

00:22:22.000 It's something they do collectively, and then they gave each other permission to change their minds overnight, and that's what happened.

00:22:29.000 My question for Kamala Harris would be, what is the achievement you are proudest of?

00:22:35.000 What's your biggest accomplishment?

00:22:36.000 Which is not a gotcha question, right?

00:22:38.000 That's a friendly question.

00:22:40.000 There's no answer because she hasn't actually achieved anything except getting elected.

00:22:44.000 And I asked Democrats very casually and in a friendly way at the convention, what's her greatest accomplishment?

00:22:52.000 And they I could not answer it.

00:22:53.000 That's a great question.

00:22:54.000 It is a great question, in part because I think Harris is trying to distance herself really rapidly from Biden, which that's whose name she's been hanging out with for the last three years.

00:23:05.000 So she could hypothetically say, oh, the things that we have done this past year for, I don't know, whatever.

00:23:11.000 Small businesses in America for LGBTQ rights. 0.95

00:23:13.000 I'm very proud of my abortion tour, but all of that would be tied to the Biden-Harris campaign, which she doesn't want to be part of.

00:23:21.000 I saw this clip of an interview that someone did with Ben Stiller, the actor, where he was saying he's excited about Harris because it's time for a change.

00:23:28.000 You realize she's currently in the White House, yes?

00:23:31.000 These people don't pay attention to anything.

00:23:33.000 But, you know, my response with the The question, because I hear it asked a lot, you know, what is Kamala Harris' greatest accomplishment?

00:23:39.000 You'd think for someone who's been VP for three and a half years, she'd have done something.

00:23:43.000 She has done things.

00:23:44.000 She does have accomplishments.

00:23:46.000 She cast the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which failed, and prices have gotten worse, which she complains about and says she wants to fix.

00:23:54.000 But she has accomplished just that.

00:23:58.000 So the important thing is, If people actually knew what our accomplishments were—in fact, I recommend this to, you know, like to Elad or to James Kluge.

00:24:06.000 You guys are on the street.

00:24:07.000 You ask someone, what do you think are some of Kamala Harris's greatest accomplishments as vice president over the past several years?

00:24:13.000 And when they say, oh, I don't know, I'm not sure, say, what about casting the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act?

00:24:18.000 That was a good one, right?

00:24:19.000 And they'll go, yeah, that was good.

00:24:21.000 And it resulted in higher prices and more inflation.

00:24:23.000 Now the cost of food is up, rent is up, and everything's worse.

00:24:27.000 And that's what she did.

00:24:28.000 That's her accomplishment.

00:24:29.000 Why vote for someone like that?

00:24:31.000 What with the Inflation Reduction Act led to, I'm not familiar with the act, what happened in it that caused inflation to go?

00:24:37.000 Well, there were a couple of things.

00:24:38.000 She also cast a tie-breaking vote for the America Rescue Plan, which was the initial massive spending that Biden added on top of the spending that hadn't yet gone out the door from the Trump administration.

00:24:48.000 So, in my view, and other people, including economists, share this view, that was what really kicked off the inflationary spiral.

00:24:55.000 And then the Inflation Reduction Act was deliberately misnamed.

00:25:00.000 It was mass spending.

00:25:01.000 Yeah, it was more spending on the Green New Deal.

00:25:05.000 It was massive spending and that made inflation worse.

00:25:09.000 It did not bring inflation down.

00:25:11.000 The inflation rate slowed, but that's because the Fed had jacked up the interest rates,

00:25:14.000 which we're all now living with.

00:25:16.000 And yeah, she cast a lot of tie-breaking votes.

00:25:19.000 She had a 50-50 Senate, basically, for a lot of the time she's been vice president, so she had more opportunities to cast tie-breaking votes, but she cast the tie-breaking vote for a lot of bad things.

00:25:30.000 So if you list those things, right, that's... And she's proud of them, as she says she's proud of them, but they did bad things.

00:25:35.000 So the Inflation Reduction Act, which is cleverly named like most bills, was basically just a government spending package.

00:25:43.000 It had some tax reforms, and it certainly did not do anything to reduce inflation.

00:25:49.000 Costs went up right afterwards.

00:25:51.000 I would say that the bill literally has nothing to do with inflation at all.

00:25:54.000 It was literally, we want to spend a bunch of money on a bunch of different programs.

00:25:57.000 We want to invest in clean energy.

00:25:58.000 Green New Deal is a large component of it.

00:26:00.000 It was a backdoor.

00:26:01.000 And then They call it something that sounds good, like the Patriot Act.

00:26:06.000 Everybody supports it.

00:26:08.000 And then you hear in the news, Kamala Harris supported the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:26:11.000 And as president, she will work to reduce prices.

00:26:14.000 And that's exactly what they're going to do.

00:26:17.000 And it's like saying, you know, Donkey Kong kidnapped the—imagine Donkey Kong kidnaps the princess, but once he's elected, he'll let her go.

00:26:23.000 That's basically what they're saying.

00:26:25.000 She did it, but vote for her and she'll undo it. 1.00

00:26:27.000 It's more like a hostage situation than an actual policy.

00:26:30.000 I do feel like a hostage in this economy.

00:26:33.000 It's really bad.

00:26:34.000 The crazy thing is that they had all this spending on Green New Deal type things.

00:26:37.000 They had $7.5 billion for 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations, and they built eight in three years.

00:26:44.000 You know, because when Democrats build stuff, They go through all the government agencies that have to

00:26:50.000 approve everything and do the environmental impact statements and do this and that.

00:26:54.000 Then they have to go through all the interest groups that have to get a piece of the action.

00:26:57.000 So they've got to work through the right unions and they've got to work through the contractors

00:27:00.000 who gave the donations to the right people.

00:27:02.000 So there's like this cascade and the money goes through it.

00:27:05.000 And by the time you actually get to when the project's supposed to be built, there's no

00:27:08.000 money left.

00:27:09.000 The plans haven't been approved and you have to go back to Congress for more money.

00:27:12.000 That's basically how Democrats run California and that's how it works in Washington now. 0.64

00:27:16.000 Whereas Trump is like, I need to get something done.

00:27:20.000 I don't care what the rules are.

00:27:21.000 We're getting it done.

00:27:22.000 I'm finding the right person to do it.

00:27:23.000 We're doing it.

00:27:24.000 I actually think, and I say it in the book, that if you want to build the EV stations,

00:27:27.000 have Trump do it because he'll take the money and he'll find a way to do it.

00:27:31.000 You know, the way he did with the Jerusalem embassy, you know, they told him it's going

00:27:34.000 One of the ideas for reducing inflation was to take money from people.

00:27:37.000 Not kidding.

00:27:38.000 Let's just take an existing building, repurpose it, we're done, embassy.

00:27:41.000 Just get it done.

00:27:42.000 One of the components of the Inflation Reduction Act was hiring 87,000 new IRS agents.

00:27:49.000 One of the ideas for reducing inflation was to take money from people.

00:27:53.000 Not kidding.

00:27:54.000 They were trying to bring prices down by taking more money from people, raising taxes in various

00:28:01.000 areas.

00:28:02.000 While Kamala Harris chatted at a rally today and she's like, I'm going to reduce taxes 0.98

00:28:06.000 for a hundred million people blah blah blah Listen, okay?

00:28:12.000 87,000 IRS agents are not needed to go after 100 billionaires.

00:28:14.000 Or 10,000 millionaires.

00:28:15.000 Here's the problem.

00:28:19.000 Let's say you want to raise a million dollars.

00:28:22.000 What's easier?

00:28:23.000 Send one million letters out automatically through, you click a button and it just prints and then sends them out?

00:28:28.000 Demanding a dollar from each person, or else, or going to one multi-millionaire and saying, you owe me a million dollars.

00:28:34.000 That multi-millionaire is going to be like, sure, let me call my lawyer and then get back to me in a year after we go to court over it.

00:28:40.000 But you send a bill to a regular working-class Joe that says, you owe us a buck, he's going to be like, okay, I guess.

00:28:45.000 Granted, it's worse than that.

00:28:46.000 They want to raise a hundred million dollars, which means they're not going to go to a billionaire and say, you owe us a hundred million dollars, because Bezos or Musk is easily going to say, Let me call my lawyer.

00:28:56.000 I promised my legal firm two million bucks.

00:28:58.000 They're gonna get this bill tossed out and they're gonna make it so bad for you, it's not worth pursuing.

00:29:01.000 More than go.

00:29:04.000 I don't know.

00:29:04.000 Let's send a million people a demand letter for $100.

00:29:06.000 Ain't no working class Joe's gonna hire a lawyer to stop the $100. 1.00

00:29:10.000 And they're gonna sit there and they're gonna be stressed out and they're gonna be sweating bullets being like, I don't understand why I owe this money.

00:29:15.000 What do I do?

00:29:17.000 We're living paycheck to paycheck.

00:29:17.000 I don't have it.

00:29:18.000 Doesn't matter.

00:29:19.000 That's how they rip the money from the economy. 1.00

00:29:21.000 These people are bad. 0.84

00:29:22.000 Kamala Harris is lying. 0.99

00:29:22.000 They are bad people. 0.99

00:29:24.000 Okay.

00:29:24.000 You know, I certainly think that she won't get asked any of these real questions though.

00:29:27.000 Was the EV charging station, I'm gonna call it a scam.

00:29:32.000 Was that part of the Green New Deal or part of the Inflation Reduction Act?

00:29:36.000 That was part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

00:29:39.000 Bipartisan?

00:29:40.000 Right.

00:29:41.000 What's funny about the bipartisan part is that the bill was like $1.2 trillion, I think.

00:29:47.000 And when Trump suggested, as he came into office, that they should spend $1 trillion on infrastructure, Mitch McConnell was like, no, that's never passing.

00:29:54.000 I'm never passing a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. 0.97

00:29:57.000 You got to be crazy.

00:29:58.000 And then of course when Biden came into office, they did a 1.2 or whatever it was trillion

00:30:03.000 dollar infrastructure bill.

00:30:04.000 It turned out McConnell meant that was too little money.

00:30:05.000 He wanted to spend more than that.

00:30:08.000 He just wouldn't give Trump a win for anything.

00:30:09.000 So they have this infrastructure bill.

00:30:12.000 And the irony is that what's happened is at first this was supposed to be a way of phasing

00:30:16.000 out the fossil fuel industry.

00:30:18.000 But then the fossil fuel industry, being smart, got their lobbyists together.

00:30:22.000 And now they are trying to get a piece of that seven and a half billion and saying,

00:30:26.000 well, why don't you just build the EV stations at our existing gas stations?

00:30:30.000 So they're now going to get heavily subsidized by this spending that was meant to replace them.

00:30:35.000 I don't have a problem with it because I think we should have both options.

00:30:38.000 I think drivers should have as many options as possible.

00:30:41.000 But that's what happens in Washington.

00:30:43.000 So all these interest groups play this game and the money just never goes to what it's supposed to unless you have someone like Trump whose whole mode of being is to cut through all this and just get stuff done.

00:30:54.000 Do you guys think we should watch the Trump-Tulsi town hall?

00:30:58.000 We should pull it up and check out some of it.

00:31:00.000 Yeah.

00:31:01.000 I can pull up and play a little bit of it.

00:31:02.000 Yeah.

00:31:03.000 Yeah, currently live.

00:31:04.000 How long is this supposed to go?

00:31:07.000 Miserably quiet.

00:31:08.000 Let me see if I can find a better source.

00:31:09.000 Come on, The Hill!

00:31:10.000 I'll try to find a better source.

00:31:11.000 with jobs. You know, you want them to go. Let me say I'm going to find a better source.

00:31:14.000 And it's hard to believe I have come on the Hill. But I look I look forward to every day

00:31:19.000 because we're going to just to go back to the contrast between the I'll try to find

00:31:23.000 a better Harris Walls debate. Our interview on this. Look, it's like brightly colored

00:31:28.000 room American flags live. He's wearing color. Beautiful.

00:31:32.000 Real people. You know, and Trump repeats himself a lot. She's heard a lot of the lines

00:31:37.000 before. But he also risks with every interaction with real voters. You risk that someone's going

00:31:42.000 to say something you don't like. The problem is what he's done, especially this time,

00:31:46.000 even more than in 2016, 2020, is he's asked people for their vote. You don't have to agree

00:31:50.000 with everything he says, but he's doing the retail politics that politicians are

00:31:53.000 supposed to do. He's basically talking to real people and saying, this is why you should vote for

00:31:58.000 me. This is why I'm asking for your support. She's not doing that. She's giving

00:32:00.000 speeches and disappearing. They worked hard to get those plans. And that's what they want. Is this

00:32:05.000 just naturally really quiet?

00:32:06.000 He wants to have it's really a communist type of government.

00:32:10.000 And I just saw her tell see on. She was sitting behind a desk doing. 0.98

00:32:15.000 It's funny you noticed that.

00:32:16.000 Dana Bash, you can make yourself big tonight.

00:32:18.000 All you have to do is be fair.

00:32:20.000 I haven't seen the questions, but they gave out a sample.

00:32:23.000 In fact, she's going to be on later on tonight with a tape.

00:32:27.000 It was a tape. We're doing it live.

00:32:29.000 Why are we doing it live and she's doing it there? 0.98

00:32:33.000 But...

00:32:34.000 Because one's real and one's fake.

00:32:36.000 That's right, he's real.

00:32:36.000 But she was sitting behind that desk, this massive desk, and she didn't look like a leader to me, I'll be honest.

00:32:42.000 I don't see her negotiating with President Xi of China.

00:32:47.000 I don't see her with Kim Jong-un like we did with Kim Jong-un. 0.73

00:32:51.000 So we're going to have to see what happens.

00:32:53.000 I'll tell you what, November 5th is going to be the most important day in the history of this country.

00:33:00.000 The 5th of November, huh?

00:33:01.000 Isn't that crazy?

00:33:02.000 Heck of a day.

00:33:06.000 I want to see how Tulsi looks.

00:33:08.000 There are a lot of people who want to feel hopeful about our future.

00:33:12.000 I want to introduce you to Luke, who is one of those people.

00:33:16.000 I hope it's Luke Rudkowski.

00:33:17.000 Good looking guy.

00:33:21.000 Thank you.

00:33:22.000 My name is Luke Pulaski.

00:33:26.000 I'll be voting for the first time in November, and I'm researching each candidate.

00:33:30.000 I have two questions for you.

00:33:32.000 First, as I've been living on my own and buying my own gas and groceries, I have noticed that everything has become more expensive.

00:33:39.000 For me personally, I try to eat healthy and stay lean.

00:33:42.000 A pound of meat has gone from $4 to almost $7.

00:33:45.000 I also would like to buy a home someday, but that seems just impossible now.

00:33:50.000 What's your plan to make life more affordable and bring down inflation for someone like me?

00:33:54.000 Very good.

00:33:55.000 Thank you.

00:33:56.000 Good.

00:33:57.000 Energy.

00:33:57.000 Yeah.

00:33:58.000 Hydrogen.

00:34:00.000 It's probably the question I get most.

00:34:02.000 You know, they say you're going to vote with your stomach.

00:34:05.000 I don't know if you've heard it, but it's a little bit true.

00:34:07.000 And groceries, food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

00:34:11.000 We've never seen anything like it.

00:34:12.000 We have seen something like it in the Great Depression, but... Some people don't eat bacon anymore.

00:34:12.000 50, 60, 70%.

00:34:20.000 That's a shame.

00:34:20.000 And we are going to get the energy prices down.

00:34:24.000 You know, this was caused by their horrible energy Wind.

00:34:24.000 There you go.

00:34:29.000 They want wind all over the place.

00:34:31.000 Or hydrogen.

00:34:32.000 Can you believe these people?

00:34:34.000 This was caused by energy.

00:34:36.000 This was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending.

00:34:41.000 They're spending us out of out of wealth, actually.

00:34:44.000 They're taking our wealth away.

00:34:45.000 But it was caused by energy.

00:34:47.000 And what they've done is they started cutting way back.

00:34:50.000 We were in third place when I left.

00:34:52.000 We were by far in first place, beating Russia, beating Saudi Arabia.

00:34:56.000 And we were going to dominate to a level that we've never seen before.

00:35:01.000 And then we had a bad election.

00:35:03.000 I'll be very nice.

00:35:04.000 I'm supposed to be nice when I talk about the election.

00:35:07.000 Because everybody is afraid to talk about it.

00:35:08.000 Oh, please, sir, don't talk about the election.

00:35:10.000 Please.

00:35:11.000 You know, if you can't talk about a bad election, you really don't have a democracy,

00:35:16.000 if you think about it, right?

00:35:18.000 But...

00:35:20.000 But what they did, Tulsi, is they took back the oil production.

00:35:28.000 The oil started going crazy.

00:35:30.000 That started the inflation.

00:35:32.000 Then they went back.

00:35:32.000 They said, go back to where Trump was.

00:35:34.000 The problem is that we would have been three times that level right now.

00:35:38.000 We would have been so dominant over Russia and Saudi Arabia.

00:35:42.000 Look, Saudi Arabia, Russia, a lot of oil.

00:35:45.000 You know, we had something in Alaska, ANWR, that I created.

00:35:45.000 We would have had more.

00:35:52.000 So imagine if on the CNN interview they had flags behind.

00:35:55.000 Yeah.

00:35:56.000 I mean, they had coffee mugs and... Trump's team demands it.

00:36:00.000 Yeah.

00:36:01.000 Maybe demand is the right word.

00:36:02.000 They, they... require it.

00:36:05.000 Yeah.

00:36:05.000 When we did the interview, they said, we want American flags.

00:36:07.000 And I was like, absolutely.

00:36:08.000 Wow.

00:36:09.000 So they actually insisted on that.

00:36:10.000 Yeah.

00:36:11.000 So it makes you wonder who's advising Kamala Harris.

00:36:13.000 We're going to pay down our debt.

00:36:14.000 I mean, this is we're going to reduce your taxes still for back up.

00:36:17.000 And your groceries are going to come tumbling down and your interest rates are going to be

00:36:22.000 tumbling down. And then you're going to go out. You're going to buy a beautiful house.

00:36:26.000 He's just so much better presentation than American dream.

00:36:31.000 Anybody.

00:36:32.000 The American dream.

00:36:33.000 See what he does there also is he creates a picture of what it's going to look like.

00:36:36.000 Yep. Yeah. And that's so much more powerful than joy.

00:36:41.000 national security but first I think it's important to point out

00:36:45.000 What Luke is talking about, the cost of groceries, the cost of gas, the cost of housing, mortgages, rent, everything has gone up.

00:36:54.000 Kamala Harris's plan that she has announced is government price controls.

00:36:58.000 I think it's important to touch on, you just laid out your plan.

00:37:02.000 What's going to happen if Kamala Harris institutes price controls? 1.00

00:37:06.000 So that's a communist plan.

00:37:07.000 It's never worked.

00:37:08.000 And it's been tried by others.

00:37:10.000 Believe it or not, Richard Nixon tried it.

00:37:12.000 A lot of people tried it.

00:37:13.000 It's been tried many times, and it always leads to the same failure.

00:37:18.000 Tremendous inflation, lack of product.

00:37:21.000 You don't have anything.

00:37:22.000 The stores are not stocked.

00:37:23.000 It has never worked.

00:37:24.000 It's called control.

00:37:25.000 They want control.

00:37:29.000 He's fantastic.

00:37:31.000 And he's in command of the details, too.

00:37:33.000 We're going to go price control.

00:37:36.000 Actually when she announced it she got absolutely slaughtered by even Democrats because it doesn't

00:37:41.000 work.

00:37:42.000 I'm just glad he didn't say schlonged.

00:37:43.000 Don't lose it.

00:37:44.000 Washington Post called her a communist.

00:37:45.000 You know why she's not talking about climate change anymore?

00:37:49.000 She's not talking about it.

00:37:50.000 You know why?

00:37:51.000 Because people don't want to hear it.

00:37:53.000 They want to find, they want to live a good life.

00:37:56.000 They want to live a life.

00:37:57.000 They don't want to stop your industry with climate change.

00:38:00.000 They used to call it death.

00:38:01.000 Different things.

00:38:02.000 Global warming.

00:38:03.000 Remember?

00:38:03.000 That wasn't working because it was getting a little bit cooler.

00:38:06.000 So they said, what are we going to do?

00:38:07.000 We'll call it global cooling?

00:38:08.000 No.

00:38:09.000 So they came up with the word, words, climate change, because that takes care of everything.

00:38:15.000 Climate change.

00:38:15.000 The climate's changing.

00:38:17.000 But according to them, we're all going to be gone in about, what do we have, three years left?

00:38:21.000 They had 12 years.

00:38:23.000 So in about three years.

00:38:24.000 So apparently she's also playing Kamala Harris in his debate track. 0.86

00:38:27.000 Yeah, that's what I heard.

00:38:29.000 Yeah, that's unfair.

00:38:31.000 She's good.

00:38:37.000 I've heard this reporting that Democrats are nervous that the expectations for Kamala Harris during the debate are too high, and she's not going to be able to meet them. 0.72

00:38:48.000 Yes, that is the candidate you picked.

00:38:50.000 I mean, the bar is very close to the ground, but yeah, that's probably too high.

00:38:57.000 Our country has the biggest problem the world has is nuclear weapons.

00:39:01.000 They are a destructive force, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.

00:39:07.000 And we have to make sure they're never used.

00:39:09.000 We have to make sure it's not going to happen.

00:39:11.000 Talk about climate change, nuclear catastrophe.

00:39:14.000 And Ukraine invaded Russia.

00:39:15.000 You're exactly right.

00:39:17.000 You brought up Ronald Reagan already.

00:39:19.000 Ronald Reagan famously said, A nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought.

00:39:25.000 And I think it's interesting you talked about climate change, Mr. President.

00:39:27.000 The Democrats and Kamala Harris, they were quick to talk about how climate change is an existential threat.

00:39:34.000 But what they're not talking about is the existential threat of nuclear war and World War III, which is exactly where we sit today because of the warmongers and their puppets, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:39:48.000 And they don't want to talk about it because The consequence of where they have taken all of us, the American people and the world, is economic hardship around the world, destruction of our economic well-being, and an annihilation of humanity, our families, our kids, our communities.

00:40:06.000 It doesn't get worse than that.

00:40:07.000 I wonder how much that factors into people's thinking about the election.

00:40:13.000 Because when you look at Kamala Harris, I don't think you see someone who is strong enough to deal with whatever is a global challenge.

00:40:19.000 Or Tim Walz.

00:40:20.000 Yeah.

00:40:22.000 When I heard that, I felt so sad because they're at a point where they feel like this outcome, the annihilation of the world, is inevitable.

00:40:31.000 So I wanted to ask you about this because it's important that Yep.

00:40:35.000 Literally a warrior.

00:40:37.000 She's on the terrorist watch list, so we don't know.

00:40:41.000 That's crazy.

00:40:41.000 A colonel?

00:40:42.000 A lieutenant colonel in the National Guard?

00:40:43.000 She got it from Russia.

00:40:44.000 She wasn't a colonel.

00:40:45.000 a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard.

00:40:48.000 She got it.

00:40:49.000 Dr. Orban, a very strong leader from Hungary, Prime Minister of Hungary,

00:40:53.000 She's still in it.

00:40:54.000 asked him recently about what's the problem in the world.

00:40:58.000 A few years ago, during my term, we didn't have Israel being attacked.

00:41:05.000 We didn't have Russia attacking Ukraine.

00:41:07.000 And they asked him, why is it so bad now?

00:41:10.000 The Middle East is on fire. 0.91

00:41:12.000 So many places are on fire.

00:41:14.000 And there are plenty of places that could very well and very quickly catch on.

00:41:19.000 What's the problem?

00:41:20.000 He said, you have to bring Trump back as President of the United States.

00:41:24.000 You will have no problem.

00:41:26.000 He single-handedly kept things.

00:41:28.000 And it's true. 0.56

00:41:31.000 And I could do it with telephone calls by being smart.

00:41:34.000 But literally, he said, you have to bring Trump back.

00:41:36.000 Now, he used a term I wouldn't use.

00:41:38.000 He said everybody was afraid of Trump.

00:41:40.000 You know who was afraid of Trump?

00:41:42.000 They said China was afraid of Trump.

00:41:44.000 Russia was afraid of Trump.

00:41:46.000 And I don't want to say that.

00:41:47.000 I will say this.

00:41:48.000 They respected me, and they respected our nation.

00:41:51.000 They don't respect our nation anymore.

00:41:53.000 They don't respect our nation anymore.

00:41:56.000 Think of it.

00:41:57.000 What would the world be like If Russia didn't do what they did and they would have never done it. 0.70

00:42:02.000 I used to speak to Putin about it.

00:42:04.000 I had a very good relationship.

00:42:06.000 No chance.

00:42:07.000 You know what happened?

00:42:08.000 I think Afghanistan, when he saw the horrible What he's saying resonates with a lot of people.

00:42:15.000 I've been to Israel five times since October 7th, and Israelis are terrified of Trump losing, because they do feel like people feared Trump.

00:42:21.000 I've been to Israel five times since October 7th.

00:42:25.000 And Israelis are terrified of Trump losing because they do feel like people fear Trump.

00:42:34.000 None of these wars happened.

00:42:36.000 And Israelis don't want to be at war.

00:42:38.000 It's not a war they chose.

00:42:40.000 And they don't want to go to war in Lebanon, but nobody trusts Biden when he says, don't do Iran, because Iran just does anyway. 1.00

00:42:47.000 And what he's saying is true. 0.81

00:42:49.000 I mean, when people fear the United States and they don't know what we're going to do, then they don't start wars.

00:42:55.000 It's intimidation.

00:42:59.000 He's good at that, but the problem was he intimidated his own populace as well, so a lot of them didn't want to vote, but you gotta look past that.

00:43:05.000 I think there's some truth to that, too.

00:43:11.000 She was the first one to leave, you know.

00:43:12.000 Kamala was the first one to quit.

00:43:15.000 She never made it to the first state in the primaries, which was Iowa.

00:43:18.000 Never even came close.

00:43:19.000 Other people did, but she never even came close.

00:43:22.000 And all of a sudden, she was picked, and she's now running for president.

00:43:27.000 And, look, it just started, really.

00:43:29.000 It just really started.

00:43:30.000 The polls have us up here.

00:43:32.000 We're up in this state.

00:43:33.000 We're up in states, but it's close.

00:43:37.000 It's close.

00:43:39.000 Where are they right now?

00:43:40.000 It's close.

00:43:41.000 And, you know, they cheat like hell, so we don't want to have it too close.

00:43:45.000 Because we have to win this.

00:43:47.000 We're not going to have a country.

00:43:49.000 But with him, I was so far up.

00:43:51.000 He had a thing called... How did he do in the debate?

00:43:53.000 Did you think he did well?

00:43:55.000 Not too good.

00:43:56.000 Also, the storm is supposed to get a lot worse.

00:43:58.000 They wanted to have a debate.

00:43:58.000 I said, OK, it's a little bit early.

00:44:00.000 I just checked the radar and in the next hour, it's supposed to get substantially worse.

00:44:07.000 I'll move the clouds.

00:44:08.000 And that was not a good debate for them.

00:44:10.000 That was not a good debate.

00:44:12.000 So that was the beginning of the end for him.

00:44:15.000 And they started looking.

00:44:16.000 But they picked a woman that had absolutely no vote. 1.00

00:44:19.000 She got no votes.

00:44:21.000 And now she's running.

00:44:22.000 So when you say threat to democracy, they are a threat to democracy.

00:44:27.000 I'm not a threat to democracy.

00:44:30.000 I followed her around during that campaign in 2019 because she didn't make it to 2020. 1.00

00:44:34.000 And the level of malpractice in the campaign was unbelievable.

00:44:39.000 Just terrible decisions, awful event staging, zero policy consistency.

00:44:45.000 She had also made mistakes two years before in her Senate campaign where they had all this money and they blew through it on first-class tickets and high-end hotels and they were almost out of money early in the race.

00:44:55.000 She just can't manage a campaign very well. 1.00

00:44:59.000 It's good news for us, then.

00:45:00.000 Yeah, well, she has a short runway here. 1.00

00:45:04.000 On purpose.

00:45:06.000 Less runway to screw up.

00:45:11.000 We cannot hear what's happening.

00:45:13.000 Is there a protester?

00:45:15.000 He is weird.

00:45:17.000 Must be a protester.

00:45:18.000 He's weird, I'm not weird, he's weird.

00:45:20.000 I'm weird, for the record.

00:45:22.000 No, he's a weird guy.

00:45:28.000 He's a weird dude.

00:45:29.000 You know, see, they come up with soundbites.

00:45:31.000 They always have soundbites.

00:45:33.000 And one of the things is that JD and I are weird.

00:45:37.000 That guy is so straight.

00:45:38.000 JD is so... He's doing a great job.

00:45:41.000 Kind of boring.

00:45:41.000 Smart.

00:45:43.000 Yeah.

00:45:43.000 Top student.

00:45:45.000 Great guy.

00:45:46.000 And he's not weird, and I'm not weird.

00:45:49.000 I mean, we're a lot of things.

00:45:50.000 We're not weird, I will tell you.

00:45:51.000 But that guy is weird.

00:45:53.000 Must be talking about Waltz.

00:45:54.000 Yeah.

00:45:54.000 You know, he called.

00:45:55.000 He signed for... And this is... Who would think that this is even happening?

00:46:01.000 Here comes the tampon Tim thing.

00:46:03.000 Men playing in women's sports and all of this. 0.76

00:46:05.000 But he has it.

00:46:06.000 He has it at a level that nobody can believe.

00:46:09.000 A bill that every boy's bathroom will have tampons.

00:46:15.000 Hence his name.

00:46:18.000 Tampon Tim.

00:46:19.000 He did it!

00:46:22.000 Think of it.

00:46:23.000 And you know, on the question of abortion, he is the one abortion in the ninth month.

00:46:31.000 And if the baby in Minnesota, and I'd love to win Minnesota because those people aren't digging this guy.

00:46:39.000 They're not digging this guy.

00:46:41.000 But think of this.

00:46:45.000 Six states.

00:46:46.000 Six states.

00:46:46.000 Minnesota is one of them.

00:46:48.000 If the baby is born, you're allowed to execute the baby after. 0.72

00:46:53.000 After birth, in Minnesota, you're allowed to execute.

00:46:53.000 Think of that.

00:46:57.000 And you remember the former governor, not the current governor, who's terrific, Glenn Youngkin.

00:47:02.000 We're going to win, maybe.

00:47:03.000 We're going to go over that one so intensely.

00:47:05.000 But the former governor.

00:47:07.000 And he said, you sit the mother down and the father down.

00:47:11.000 You sit them down and you talk.

00:47:14.000 And the baby is born, and you make a decision what to do.

00:47:17.000 He meant, do you execute the baby after birth?

00:47:21.000 Yes, he did.

00:47:22.000 And according to what they have passed and legislation in Minnesota, they're allowed to execute the baby after birth.

00:47:30.000 And this guy... That seems pretty wild.

00:47:32.000 ...is a participant.

00:47:32.000 Let me think.

00:47:34.000 And that's why she picked him, because she is, in fact, A Marxist slash communist.

00:47:40.000 Remember, I'd say all the time, our country will never be socialist, right?

00:47:44.000 We will not have a socialist... Well, I was right.

00:47:47.000 We skipped socialism.

00:47:49.000 We went to communism.

00:47:51.000 I haven't heard him say that before.

00:47:53.000 That's pretty good.

00:47:54.000 Mr. President, we have...

00:47:57.000 Time for one final question.

00:47:59.000 I don't know if we can get a mic to Bernardo.

00:48:02.000 He's got an important question given very soon we will be honoring the anniversary of September 11th and all of the lives that were lost on that tragic day in that tragic attack where we were attacked by radical Islamist terrorists and Bernardo wanted to share.

00:48:21.000 There are no restrictions on abortion in Minnesota.

00:48:23.000 None.

00:48:25.000 Mr. President, my name is Bernardo.

00:48:28.000 I'm a voter here in Wisconsin.

00:48:29.000 I live in the wonderful La Crosse County here.

00:48:34.000 I'm also a father of eight.

00:48:41.000 I have seven here with me.

00:48:42.000 How old is he?

00:48:45.000 Does he have eight different women?

00:48:50.000 And the anniversary of 9-11 is coming up.

00:48:54.000 I'm concerned that we're more vulnerable now than ever.

00:48:59.000 And we have a Democrat nominee who doesn't even want to say the words, says we shouldn't say the words, radical Islamic terror.

00:49:11.000 How are we going to protect America from a terrorist attack?

00:49:16.000 First of all, it's a great question.

00:49:17.000 And, you know, we have radical Islamists pouring into our country, along with everybody else right now.

00:49:23.000 They're coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

00:49:26.000 We kept them out.

00:49:27.000 We had one year where Border Patrol put down — it was, I believe, 2019.

00:49:32.000 And I don't believe this.

00:49:33.000 I don't believe it's right, but I'll take it.

00:49:35.000 They said zero came in in 2019.

00:49:37.000 That was my term.

00:49:39.000 Zero.

00:49:40.000 Now we have thousands.

00:49:42.000 I'd like to say that was true.

00:49:44.000 It's probably not, because I can't imagine that.

00:49:46.000 But we were very tough on that.

00:49:48.000 Now they have thousands and thousands coming in, along with the prisoners and along with the crime.

00:49:52.000 And remember, a lot of these countries, like Venezuela, their crime is way down because they've moved their criminals into our country. 0.98

00:49:59.000 It's not even believable.

00:50:01.000 But your question on Islamists and all of the jihad and all of the things that they talk about, They have to respect your country.

00:50:09.000 They have to respect your leader.

00:50:11.000 You know, I had no radical Islam crime for four years, and I didn't want to talk about it.

00:50:18.000 I wanted to.

00:50:19.000 I talked about it after, but I didn't want to talk about it.

00:50:22.000 I don't want to say like I had.

00:50:24.000 Absolutely.

00:50:24.000 And the next day you get hit.

00:50:26.000 But we had none four years of it because they respected your president, they respected your country, and we have to bring back that level of respect.

00:50:35.000 And we're going to do it.

00:50:36.000 We're going to do it.

00:50:37.000 And we're not letting the wrong people into our country. 0.99

00:50:41.000 Thank you very much.

00:50:42.000 Great question.

00:50:43.000 And do they respect commoners?

00:50:44.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:50:45.000 I know you have run out of time here, but thank you for having this conversation with the people of Wisconsin and people across the country who are watching and concerned about these very same issues.

00:50:56.000 They're wrapping up, so we'll wrap up.

00:50:57.000 But we will jump to a story that I see people have been asking us about.

00:51:00.000 And so earlier on, we'll get the story right here.

00:51:03.000 We have this from NBC News.

00:51:04.000 Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected.

00:51:10.000 In an interview with NBC News, the former president defended himself over abortion rights.

00:51:13.000 rights.

00:51:14.000 They say that former President Donald Trump said in an interview,

00:51:16.000 If elected, his administration would not only protect access to in vitro fertilization,

00:51:21.000 but would have either the government or insurance companies cover the cost of the expensive

00:51:24.000 service for American women who need it.

00:51:27.000 We are going to be under the Trump administration.

00:51:28.000 We are going to be paying for that treatment.

00:51:30.000 We're going to be mandating the insurance company pay.

00:51:33.000 Asked to clarify whether the government would pay for IVF services or whether insurance companies would do so, Trump reiterated that one option would be to have the insurance companies pay under a mandate.

00:51:41.000 Yes.

00:51:42.000 Abortion and IVF have been a political liability for Trump.

00:51:44.000 Blah, blah, blah.

00:51:45.000 Thanks for your opinion, NBC News.

00:51:46.000 First thing I'm going to say about this.

00:51:48.000 This is a low-tier issue that will move the needle barely.

00:51:52.000 But Trump is pulling off a big ask maneuver.

00:51:56.000 By saying he wants the government to pay for IVF, he is trying to cut off Democrats' ability to say that he wants to ban IVF.

00:52:06.000 At the same time, no one's going to choose to vote or not vote for Trump based on IVF.

00:52:10.000 This policy will likely never happen, but what he's basically doing is jumping over the Democrats' attack and saying, what are they saying?

00:52:18.000 We want to ban it?

00:52:19.000 We're going to make the government pay for it!

00:52:20.000 They're trying to shutting him down.

00:52:21.000 That's a socialist maneuver.

00:52:22.000 The guy who was just talking about avoiding socialism and communism is like, the government's going to pay for a new social program.

00:52:29.000 Because what you really mean is the people.

00:52:30.000 are going to pay for it. My taxes are going to pay for her pregnancy now. I think it's a good 0.97

00:52:36.000 policy anyway. Ask me first. I'm for it. I'm completely for it. So you know what happens?

00:52:41.000 Donald Trump did this thing where he was like, college graduates should get citizenship here.

00:52:44.000 And the right lost their mind. They were like, no. Even Laura Loomer, who is the number one Trump

00:52:48.000 fan, said this is a bad policy. I said, Trump's right. The problem is everyone immediately

00:52:53.000 assumed Trump was saying everyone gets a permit to live here, whatever.

00:52:58.000 No, no, I was like, Trump is correct.

00:53:01.000 If there are people who are here, who meet certain guidelines, certain restrictions, and with a limited number of availability, we should absolutely allow people to work here if they graduated from these universities, because we don't want people coming to our universities, developing IP, or getting access to our IP, and then going back to China to develop those companies.

00:53:21.000 But this means what?

00:53:22.000 Is the number a thousand people per year or some low number?

00:53:24.000 It just means Trump is correct, but there's got to be restrictions.

00:53:28.000 Now, when it comes to the IVF thing, it can't be for... it should be only in necessity.

00:53:35.000 A couple that is dealing with fertility issues that are struggling to conceive, who meet certain requirements, will have, in my opinion, it is a good policy, and I am not a conservative, a government-covered or insurance company-covered IVF.

00:53:47.000 Why?

00:53:48.000 Our birth rates are way too low and they're below replacement.

00:53:52.000 So, I'm not a laissez-faire libertarian, no government, no taxes.

00:53:56.000 I actually think there are certain things we can do as a society, and we should do.

00:54:00.000 And I certainly think this, on the surface level, needs to be explored.

00:54:05.000 But if the idea is the United States is a birthrate below replacement, that is apocalyptic, then I am absolutely in favor of IVF treatments for people who need it.

00:54:14.000 But need is the... I'll be honest, man, I kind of agree with you.

00:54:18.000 I'm into social programs, certain ones.

00:54:19.000 Like, they're very, very good in the right usages.

00:54:23.000 You know, the fire department's phenomenal.

00:54:24.000 And it's hard to be in the right usages.

00:54:26.000 Yeah, but helping pregnancies is maybe, you know...

00:54:28.000 I think the problem is that IVF has now been lumped in with abortion the way that birth control got lumped in with abortion.

00:54:35.000 And I don't think those three things are exactly the same in any way, even though Democrats will lump them under the overhead of women's rights, women's reproductive rights.

00:54:44.000 IVF, infertility, the birth rate, really important conversations to have.

00:54:48.000 And I think that there are tremendous consequences to the conception of embryos outside the womb.

00:54:53.000 You have to have a plan.

00:54:53.000 We're talking about this for the show.

00:54:54.000 Like, what do you do?

00:54:56.000 On the other hand, It's not the same thing as having an abortion.

00:55:00.000 People who are seeking abortions are probably not also seeking IVF, so we should stop sewing them together like they're one thing. 0.81

00:55:05.000 And I also feel similarly about birth control, right?

00:55:07.000 I think if you want to take the birth control pill, that's a different conversation than, I have now become pregnant and I would maybe like to terminate the life of this baby.

00:55:14.000 Well the reason those things are conflated is deliberate.

00:55:16.000 So Democrats are using IVF to talk about abortion without talking about killing a baby.

00:55:22.000 Yeah.

00:55:23.000 Now they're talking about having babies.

00:55:24.000 It's the same idea in a sense that there's a radical ability to do whatever you want with pregnancy but they're talking about babies in a positive way.

00:55:34.000 It's a brilliant attack and it is one that Republicans have to respond to because IVF goes to not just the Women, but also the idea of family. 0.81

00:55:47.000 And there are many, many working women who are putting off pregnancy and want to know that they can still have babies in their forties or whatever.

00:55:57.000 And it's a huge anxiety.

00:55:58.000 So it really resonates with people, but maybe Trump read this book.

00:56:01.000 I don't know because I've got it in here.

00:56:03.000 I'm going to plug my book again.

00:56:04.000 You actually have in there?

00:56:05.000 Yeah.

00:56:06.000 The agenda.

00:56:07.000 Page 81.

00:56:08.000 So Trump can come in and he can issue regulations immediately or an executive order to HHS, Health and Human Services, to explore regulations that would allow insurance companies to begin to offer coverage for fertility treatments, which are typically paid out of pocket.

00:56:22.000 So it's not that every insurance policy has to offer it.

00:56:25.000 And I don't think businesses should be saddled with the huge insurance costs.

00:56:28.000 IVF is very expensive.

00:56:30.000 But maybe you can ease the burden of some of the regulations to allow insurance plans that maybe offer you IVF and don't offer you other things.

00:56:38.000 We have so many conditions that are covered under these Obamacare platinum plans, bronze plans, gold plans, whatever.

00:56:44.000 Right now you have a situation where women with PhDs are taking jobs as Amazon drivers and Starbucks baristas because those companies cover IVF with their insurance and their existing policies at whatever they're working at. 1.00

00:56:57.000 See, I'll give a little pushback.

00:56:59.000 I mean, the idea that there are women who are trying to go into their 40s without having a family and want us to now pay for that, that I don't agree with. 0.81

00:57:08.000 I'm saying need in terms of a healthy couple at a reasonable age saying we're having issues and IVF may be the only option.

00:57:16.000 The idea to me, or I should say that I think we're suffering a cultural problem in this country, Where people are telling women, just put it off, put it off, put it off, and then someone else will bear the brunt of that decision that you've made or because society has told you to make it.

00:57:29.000 But some people are like, they eat too much cake and then they get fat and they can't have kids properly.

00:57:33.000 And I'm not going to pay for that.

00:57:34.000 I'm not going to pay for that.

00:57:35.000 They'll be like, we don't know why we're having trouble.

00:57:37.000 We're just having trouble.

00:57:38.000 We'll check your diet.

00:57:40.000 Agreed.

00:57:40.000 And that's why I said there have to be restrictions.

00:57:43.000 This cannot be.

00:57:45.000 And this is the important distinction.

00:57:47.000 I think it's a fair argument to say we shouldn't do this program at all because it will devolve into subsidizing bad behaviors.

00:57:55.000 Fair point.

00:57:55.000 Obesity, 78% of the population, something like that.

00:57:58.000 I'm saying these things can work as long as they're regulated very strongly.

00:58:03.000 In that, no.

00:58:05.000 If your issue is caused by your own bad choices, we're not bearing the brunt of that.

00:58:08.000 See, I'm in favor of universal basic health care, is what I describe it as.

00:58:12.000 If you break a bone, then you go to a doctor and we, I think the taxpayer covers the minor costs of a doctor resetting the bone and giving you one of those self-setting plaster casts or whatever.

00:58:23.000 Or if you have the flu, would you seem to have a flu? 0.97

00:58:25.000 Because it's stupid that a ten-year-old kid dies because he's got the flu. 1.00

00:58:28.000 I think that's dumb. 1.00

00:58:29.000 But if you've got Cancer. 0.98

00:58:31.000 And you need advanced treatments.

00:58:32.000 You need insurance for that.

00:58:34.000 I don't know that my idea could actually work.

00:58:36.000 I'm just saying, when these leftists say we should have Medicare for all, everyone should be covered no matter what, that's physically impossible.

00:58:41.000 There's not enough treatments for every disease that exists to just cover anybody.

00:58:44.000 Especially when you're printing money to pay insurance companies.

00:58:48.000 Like, why don't we just lower the cost of the treatment and pay them less? 0.83

00:58:51.000 Market competition.

00:58:53.000 So a voucher system seems to be a decent idea.

00:58:56.000 And when I look at this, I see the challenge as Democrats are going to bloat it, and they're going to try and give everybody access until the system collapses.

00:59:05.000 And my proposal is, we should be maximizing the incentives for having families.

00:59:10.000 Another example is the child tax credit.

00:59:13.000 And I love this story.

00:59:14.000 When J.D.

00:59:15.000 Vance said we should expand the child tax credit, the media said, J.D.

00:59:19.000 Vance thinks people without children should pay more taxes.

00:59:22.000 And when Kamala Harris said the exact same thing, they said, Kamala Harris wants to lower taxes for parents. 1.00

00:59:27.000 Right.

00:59:28.000 Media is crooked.

00:59:29.000 Sometimes it was the same journalist.

00:59:30.000 You can actually look, there was one journalist from CBS who said something like, experts question JD Vance's child tax credit.

00:59:37.000 And then she wrote the same article, or she wrote the article on the same topic about Kamala Harris and it was, hooray, child tax credit.

00:59:44.000 And she raised the tax credit.

00:59:46.000 JD Vance proposed $5,000 and Kamala was $6,000.

00:59:50.000 I wonder if Kamala Harris is trying to offer Americans the Trump policies without Trump, because that's what her campaign is becoming. 1.00

00:59:57.000 She doesn't have her own policies on her website. 0.87

00:59:59.000 She keeps stealing Trump's ideas.

01:00:01.000 No taxes on tips and stuff like that.

01:00:03.000 So are we getting... The wall.

01:00:04.000 She's now behind the wall.

01:00:05.000 So is it Trump without the Trump?

01:00:07.000 The Trump policies without the Trump tweets?

01:00:10.000 They realized it.

01:00:10.000 They realized the only thing they can't... They sat down and said, what should our policies be?

01:00:13.000 And they're like, guys, we only have one issue.

01:00:15.000 It's that we are not Trump.

01:00:17.000 So let's just take all of his policies, copy his campaign, and say we're not him.

01:00:21.000 And that's it.

01:00:22.000 Yeah, that's one thing she... if you challenge her, at least in an interview, she'll be like, what do you want, Trump to win? 0.76

01:00:28.000 And I'm like, is that going to be her diplomacy tactic with Putin?

01:00:31.000 What do you want, Trump to be president?

01:00:32.000 He'd be like, yes, I do, actually.

01:00:35.000 Get out of my... trying to negotiate.

01:00:37.000 And she'd be like, excuse me, I'm speaking. 0.97

01:00:41.000 We can't send this horrible feminist girl boss into any sort of serious diplomatic negotiation. 1.00

01:00:46.000 We all know that.

01:00:48.000 It's interesting that you reference people taking jobs at Amazon a couple years ago, and I wish I could remember the outlet, but I had read a story about women who were specifically working on Amazon warehouses because if they worked there for a certain amount of time, they would get access to one cycle of IVF.

01:01:01.000 through their insurance and I find this to be interesting like there are lots of women who are delaying you know for their career or whatever else but there are also women who just like find themselves in a position of infertility who will do whatever they can including very serious manual labor To have children. 0.92

01:01:18.000 I think the idea of family is something Americans resonate with.

01:01:22.000 They hold very dear to their hearts.

01:01:24.000 And the fact, like you pointed out, that the Democrats have managed to make infertility an issue where Republicans are on the bad side is fascinating.

01:01:32.000 It wasn't even an issue.

01:01:33.000 Nobody was talking about getting rid of IVF.

01:01:35.000 It was just this Alabama court case.

01:01:37.000 But look, there are also men who are showing up without any sperm motility.

01:01:40.000 And yeah, I mean, that's got other causes as well.

01:01:43.000 And that's where Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

01:01:45.000 comes in and he's talking about all these mysterious health problems that we're facing as a society, which I think is fascinating.

01:01:52.000 I'm not sure I agree with him on everything, but I think generally to have a candidate who's talking about health...

01:01:57.000 is compelling because a lot of us have anxieties about it.

01:01:59.000 He's right.

01:02:00.000 He wanted to get rid of the three trillion in Ozempic that we spend per year.

01:02:03.000 He wants to spend a fraction of that on giving every family in America three organic meals a day.

01:02:08.000 I think that might actually be a nice subsidization as opposed to letting you use your food stamps on Pepsi.

01:02:15.000 Yeah, seriously.

01:02:18.000 Guys, you can use food stamps to buy candy bars. 0.96

01:02:22.000 It's ridiculous!

01:02:24.000 I am all for food benefits, 100%. 0.75

01:02:27.000 There's a mom and she can't meet her bills, and she needs to feed her kids. 1.00

01:02:31.000 Let's get some food for that mom. 1.00

01:02:32.000 But you can take your EBT card in every state that offers it, and you can go to the grocery store and buy a big ol' bar of chocolate.

01:02:38.000 Skittles.

01:02:39.000 I don't want to blame these company names too hard, but come on.

01:02:42.000 And you know what you can't buy?

01:02:43.000 When you're at Walmart, you get food benefits, and they have those hot chickens up front.

01:02:47.000 They'll have the whole chicken ready to go.

01:02:48.000 You pick it up, you bring it home, you feed your family.

01:02:50.000 You can't buy that with food benefits.

01:02:51.000 Oh, that's lame.

01:02:52.000 Prepared food you can't buy.

01:02:54.000 You can buy unprepared food, which means you can go to the candy bar aisle, and you can grab nachos, chips, Hershey's chocolate cookies and cream, whatever, Snickers bars.

01:03:03.000 Good luck trying to take that away from those companies.

01:03:05.000 I don't think that, I mean that's something RFK might, I don't know what his plan is actually.

01:03:10.000 I just heard him talking about it today.

01:03:11.000 When he was on the show with us when we were at the Libertarian Convention, you know, we talked about all this stuff.

01:03:16.000 I agree with you, there's not I don't agree with him on everything but it was really interesting to see someone who is so passionate about the conditions of the environment and the way it affects people's health and the long-term importance of investing in especially children's health talk about this.

01:03:31.000 I mean there's a creativity and an innovation there that I think we would need in any successful government and you know, I think I know a lot of people who have struggled with infertility and their first step isn't to say, please give me IVF.

01:03:43.000 It's to say, well, can I fix my diet?

01:03:45.000 Can I fix my lifestyle?

01:03:46.000 What's something I can do before that?

01:03:48.000 Because IVF is a demanding process.

01:03:51.000 It involves a lot of hormones. 1.00

01:03:52.000 I mean, in addition to the expense, it's emotionally, psychologically and physically taxing for I think everyone involved.

01:03:59.000 But it doesn't seem like this is a conversation the Democrats are having.

01:04:04.000 When Republicans talk about families, they're talking about how can we make it easier for you to be with your children, to have children?

01:04:09.000 How can we give your children a better start in life?

01:04:12.000 And with Democrats, it's like how can we be as controlling to your lives as possible and also maybe give you the option to have or terminate your children?

01:04:22.000 As you mentioned, the conservative policy is, how can we help you be with your kids and have more kids, and the Democrat policy is, how can we help you eliminate your children?

01:04:29.000 The pro-life, the intensely pro-life people that are like, zero tolerance for any kind of, you know, killing of any kind of embryo, fetus, whatever, I think their resistance to IVF is that the woman is incited to produce multiple embryos, and maybe all of them could potentially become human children at some point, you know, from embryo to child.

01:04:51.000 But that five of them will be destroyed and only one of them will be taken if the parent wants only one kid.

01:04:56.000 And so they're like, nope.

01:04:58.000 Let's pull this up.

01:04:59.000 The second you have an embryo.

01:05:01.000 It's all right.

01:05:01.000 So let's pull this tweet up.

01:05:02.000 We have this from Lila Rose, who is of course, is it live action?

01:05:07.000 I never know.

01:05:08.000 I always call it live action.

01:05:10.000 Live action it is.

01:05:11.000 Okay.

01:05:11.000 Pro-life activists, she tweets, there's a crucial conversation happening right now about protecting children and political strategy.

01:05:20.000 She says, we are pro-life activists.

01:05:22.000 What should our response be when Trump repeatedly takes step after step back from what it means to protect innocent pre-born lives to the point of supporting abortion pills and vowing to veto abortion bans?

01:05:33.000 Is it wrong for Trump supporters to demand that pro-life activists be endlessly loyal to Trump in response to repeated betrayal?

01:05:39.000 Expressions of disappointment are not enough.

01:05:41.000 Disappointment is not being counted at the ballot box.

01:05:43.000 The currency in the language in this season is votes.

01:05:46.000 Trump has plenty of opportunity to still win the pro-life vote, and it will only help his campaign. 0.55

01:05:51.000 I want Trump to win as a pro-life candidate, but let's be clear, Trump winning as a pro-abortion candidate is a loss for the pro-life movement.

01:05:57.000 Given the current situation, we have two pro-abortion tickets.

01:06:00.000 A Trump win is not a pro-life win right now.

01:06:02.000 Pro-lifers will need to challenge both leaders either way.

01:06:05.000 We only help Trump by sounding the alarm.

01:06:08.000 Trump is losing pro-life votes regardless of what I say because of his own actions.

01:06:11.000 Kamala Harris supports abortion up until birth, unrestricted and tax-funded.

01:06:16.000 Of course, Harris does not deserve the pro-life vote.

01:06:19.000 But this does not mean Trump should not be challenged with the truth.

01:06:22.000 We'll continue to speak the truth and demand better from the Trump campaign for the sake of innocent babies who cannot speak for themselves.

01:06:27.000 Fear cannot keep us from doing and saying what is right.

01:06:30.000 We are two months after the election.

01:06:32.000 It's not too late for Trump to change course.

01:06:34.000 She goes into mention, she urges Trump to say he will fight for life, etc., etc. 0.99

01:06:40.000 I have no problem with the statement, but when she said that she and many others wouldn't vote for him over this, is just one of the gosh darn stupidest things I've ever heard. 0.97

01:06:48.000 Is this over the IVF statements? 0.96

01:06:50.000 No, no, the conflict has been, she tweeted, if you're not pro-life, you don't get pro-life votes.

01:06:55.000 Which is an absurdity.

01:06:57.000 As if the only—welcome to Single Issue Voters, I guess, I get it. 0.92

01:07:00.000 But as if—I tweeted, and this is so funny, because I'm sorry, but people are really dumb, and this is just reality, and I'll explain, I'll explain.

01:07:10.000 If you won't ban war, you don't get anti-war votes. 0.95

01:07:13.000 Yeah, if you're not Jesus, you don't get the Christian vote.

01:07:15.000 That's basically what I was going to tweet.

01:07:17.000 I'd held back.

01:07:18.000 If Donald Trump could ban war, I think war is wrong.

01:07:21.000 Trump should be coming out and saying that he will ban war all the time, no matter what, and never allow it to happen, and he will shut... Well, he can't do that. 0.97

01:07:27.000 That's ridiculous.

01:07:29.000 I'm going to vote for the person who's going to get me as close to possible to my goals. 0.83

01:07:34.000 We don't jump from A to Z overnight.

01:07:35.000 We have to go through B, C, D, E, F, G, etc, etc.

01:07:38.000 And so, let me tell you, in response to these tweets that I've made, so we're trying to book members of Congress, and our booking is telling us that there are members of Congress who are like, isn't Tim coming after Trump now? 1.00

01:07:50.000 Like, are you people really this stupid? 1.00

01:07:52.000 Holy crap. 1.00

01:07:53.000 They are. 0.99

01:07:54.000 They are.

01:07:55.000 Unnamed, they will remain.

01:07:56.000 Trump's saying he won't sign a law on the national level about abortion.

01:08:01.000 So he was saying, no, we achieved overturning Roe versus Wade.

01:08:05.000 It's now back to the states.

01:08:06.000 Let's leave it at the states.

01:08:07.000 And I think that's the right position for him to take because I don't think he can win if he's advocating, at least during the campaign, signing federal legislation on abortion.

01:08:19.000 He's a moderate.

01:08:20.000 Yeah, and I do think though that this IVF issue, look, it pains me to say it because I didn't like him as a candidate, but Barack Obama probably had the best answer on abortion when he was asked at the Saddleback Church in a debate over that issue with John McCain in 2008.

01:08:36.000 And first he said, and he got ridiculed for saying it, at first he said, at some level these issues are above my pay grade.

01:08:40.000 I don't know if you guys remember he said that.

01:08:43.000 And they are.

01:08:43.000 I mean, we can't expect presidents to be medical experts, ethical experts.

01:08:49.000 So one of the things I suggest that Trump do is convene an ethical panel to study all aspects of the IVF issue.

01:08:56.000 Because I think all of these questions, like the extra embryos, what happens to them?

01:09:01.000 Those are valid questions.

01:09:03.000 Have we ever, as a society, sat down and said, are those embryos just to be thrown away?

01:09:08.000 What happens to them?

01:09:08.000 We've never really done it.

01:09:10.000 So that's something you can do.

01:09:11.000 Again, day one, just say, we're going to have this panel of ethicists, not just scientists, not bureaucrats, but we're going to talk to religious leaders.

01:09:17.000 We're going to have this process of trying to figure out where we want to go as a society.

01:09:20.000 And maybe we won't come to answers, but at least we'll explore the questions.

01:09:24.000 I think that the other thing Obama said was, whether you're pro-life or pro-choice, let's all agree to have fewer abortions.

01:09:31.000 Now, he didn't govern that way.

01:09:33.000 He governed as the most radically pro-abortion president we've ever had until that point, but I think... Democrats don't agree with that today.

01:09:39.000 They don't agree with that today.

01:09:40.000 No, in fact, yeah.

01:09:42.000 I won't say where exactly, but I've seen people literally flying abortion flags.

01:09:47.000 There are transgender activists, males, saying they want to get a uterus implant so they can have an abortion, and just for that reason. 0.97

01:09:54.000 There was, what's her face, Lena Dunham, who wrote how she wished that she had an abortion.

01:09:59.000 No, no, hold on.

01:10:00.000 Sometimes when you hear that, it's from someone who had a kid, and then they're like, I should have aborted my kid.

01:10:04.000 No, no, no.

01:10:04.000 She wasn't even pregnant.

01:10:06.000 She was just wishing to have gotten pregnant to have an abortion for no reason other than to have the abortion. 1.00

01:10:10.000 It doesn't work the other way. 0.99

01:10:10.000 You never hear a female-to-male transgender person saying, I wish I had testicles so I could have a vasectomy. 0.99

01:10:16.000 It doesn't actually work. 0.99

01:10:17.000 Nobody ever says that.

01:10:18.000 You might actually hear that.

01:10:19.000 It's just a question of are we looking for it, you know?

01:10:21.000 I don't know.

01:10:22.000 But we actually tried to find out at the Democratic Convention how many abortions they did because they had the abortion truck and then they had the vasectomy truck, but they left after a day or two, so I don't know how many they actually did.

01:10:32.000 Some people counted 25.

01:10:32.000 Really?

01:10:32.000 Yeah.

01:10:34.000 But the question at hand with Lila is should pro-life individuals not vote for Trump or say they won't vote for Trump because of this issue?

01:10:43.000 No, no, no.

01:10:45.000 I don't think that zealotry and obsession over single issues is the way to handle your politics.

01:10:52.000 It doesn't work.

01:10:54.000 I have been in the position before where I've been so offended by something a candidate I supported had said that I said, I'm just not voting in this particular race.

01:11:01.000 It's actually happened this year.

01:11:02.000 We have a race for district attorney in L.A.

01:11:04.000 and the current guy is a Soros guy. 0.86

01:11:06.000 He's terrible.

01:11:07.000 But the guy challenging him has said some really awful stuff.

01:11:11.000 I think what Trump hasn't done is what that guy did.

01:11:13.000 Trump hasn't disrespected pro-life voters.

01:11:15.000 He hasn't told them that they're wrong. 1.00

01:11:17.000 He hasn't told them that they're stupid people, that they're ruining his chances. 1.00

01:11:21.000 He hasn't said anything like that. 1.00

01:11:23.000 So I think if your candidate takes a position which is not ideal, I don't think you abandon the candidate because one is going to be better than the other.

01:11:30.000 If, however, your candidate runs you down and treats you like dirt, which is what's happening in LA, Then I think you say, you know what?

01:11:36.000 You actually didn't get my vote.

01:11:37.000 Like I would love to vote for you because the guy who's the alternative is so bad.

01:11:41.000 But if you're going to treat me like this now, how are you going to treat me after you get into office?

01:11:44.000 Especially if your objective is to push for policy that you would be happier with, right?

01:11:51.000 They're probably going to make more progress with Trump than with Harris.

01:11:54.000 Harris is becoming more and more radical on the abortion issue, I feel like, by the minute.

01:11:59.000 And at least with Trump, maybe he's not perfect on the issue, but he is much more amenable to a more intense pro-life worldview than she would be.

01:12:07.000 I like what you said before about having an ethical conversation about IVF, and I think that's What I was most interested in when Alabama had the case involving parents whose embryos had been dropped and destroyed by someone who had broken into this clinic, they wanted to sue the hospital and the state under a wrongful death of a child act.

01:12:34.000 And that would acknowledge that these embryo were their children because all of these parents wanted them, right?

01:12:39.000 I mean, it's heartbreaking.

01:12:40.000 It's a terrible situation.

01:12:42.000 And I think that it would be nice if both parties would have the conversation about we have all this wonderful science and technology and we can do all these things.

01:12:51.000 We need to revisit the question of life and where does it start and when do we give it value and how much value do we give it at every stage because it does matter.

01:12:59.000 Like parents who go through IVF want those children.

01:13:03.000 If they conceive six embryos and they want two kids, not six, what do they do?

01:13:08.000 What does that look like?

01:13:09.000 And we were talking a little bit before the show about embryo adoption, which I'm not a legal expert, but I have heard from a lot of lawyers that it looks more like the transfer of property than it does adoption paperwork, which is also fascinating.

01:13:22.000 Put that on the Ethical Committee's agenda list.

01:13:25.000 But why is it that these aren't the conversations that we have?

01:13:29.000 Even people that I know who've gone through fertility treatments have talked about You know, because of their religious beliefs or whatever else.

01:13:35.000 Asking the doctor, well, do you have to fertilize a lot or could you keep them separate and fertilize one at a time?

01:13:40.000 Like, what conversations are people not even aware they could have with their doctor because they're given so little information other than Trump's trying to take it away and actually, you know, you must do it this way.

01:13:52.000 You know, there's so much, I think, There are so many gray areas with this where people are so scared and they're pouring so much money into this what feels like a single shot that they don't even know what their options are because we won't talk about them.

01:14:05.000 You know, Tim raised another issue, which is the fact that we're not replacing our population.

01:14:10.000 And that wasn't the case 20 years ago.

01:14:12.000 We had a birthrate above replacement rate.

01:14:16.000 I'm really fascinated by this problem because I'm not sure exactly what happened in the last 20 years.

01:14:21.000 You know, some people say it's these things that have distracted us or whatever, but I think that that's also a conversation to have.

01:14:28.000 And maybe the reframe for conservatives is sort of what Obama did for Democrats on abortion, where Obama said, well, let's talk about reducing the number of abortions, no matter what the actual laws are.

01:14:36.000 Maybe conservatives need to say, how do we encourage people to have more children?

01:14:39.000 We want people to have more children.

01:14:41.000 And that's the context in which we were going to have this conversation about IVF.

01:14:45.000 And it could also include things like more support for childcare.

01:14:49.000 One of the best ideas that Ivanka Trump had in the White House that was never acted on was trying to find some way of subsidizing or supporting childcare and daycare, which is so expensive. 0.97

01:15:01.000 It doesn't need to be that expensive.

01:15:03.000 And Democrats who like to spend a lot of money like to say that everything pays for itself.

01:15:08.000 You know, Kamala Harris with her line about return on investment, return on investment, and she didn't really know what that meant when she said it.

01:15:13.000 I do think that if you can find a way to support child care, you do get a return on investment for the taxpayer, because a mother or father who can go back into the workforce and work and earn money and get income that you can tax can actually pay the federal taxpayer back for the cost of the child care, depending on how much is being supported.

01:15:34.000 But I think we do need to have a conversation as a society.

01:15:37.000 Why aren't we having more kids? 0.97

01:15:38.000 What is it?

01:15:39.000 Have we become less optimistic?

01:15:40.000 Are we going to church less often?

01:15:41.000 Are we meeting fewer people?

01:15:44.000 It's a great irony, and I do think it's cultural also, because there are some studies that say we're not just having fewer children, we're also having less sex.

01:15:51.000 Like, as liberated as we are, you can choose your gender, you can choose whatever, you know, but people aren't getting together and just enjoying each other.

01:15:58.000 It's feminism. 1.00

01:15:59.000 That's it.

01:15:59.000 It's a lot of things.

01:16:00.000 Well, but it's primarily... it's that...

01:16:05.000 Go back to the fifties, women prioritized family. 1.00

01:16:08.000 And so women prioritized relationships. 1.00

01:16:10.000 Today, men do the same thing men have done.

01:16:13.000 They go out, they try and find jobs.

01:16:14.000 Some are in school, some are not in school.

01:16:16.000 Guys do guy stuff.

01:16:18.000 It was the pressure from women who were deciding on what they want to do with their lives, and men had to adhere to what women wanted.

01:16:25.000 Guys, they want to find a woman, they want to hook up, they want to be in a relationship, whatever, the women would dictate. 0.99

01:16:29.000 She'd say, I want a guy who's got a good job because I want to have a family.

01:16:32.000 And the guy would be like, I better get it going.

01:16:34.000 Now women are like, I want a guy who wants to go out on the weekends and party and be my polycule because I got work Monday through Friday until 10pm. 1.00

01:16:42.000 And so having a family is not a component of what women want today. 1.00

01:16:46.000 They're, you know, they're girl bossing, they're gonna freeze their their eggs so that they can do it later in life when they feel like it doesn't work all the time. 0.99

01:16:54.000 But it is it is This shift in culture in the end of the 60s into the 70s, and a long time coming too, I mean, especially you go back to the 1900s and suffrage and all that, where women's priorities shifted from family into work.

01:17:11.000 And as long as both men and women prioritize work, there will not be family. 0.80

01:17:16.000 Opposites attract.

01:17:21.000 But are men prioritizing work?

01:17:22.000 Because we have so many men just doing nothing.

01:17:24.000 I mean, there's some problem with male motivation as well.

01:17:26.000 Because men have no—like, look, what do guys want to do?

01:17:32.000 There's a reason why they're following Andrew Tate, and Andrew Tate has—Andrew has 10 million followers.

01:17:38.000 Why?

01:17:39.000 Well, young men see a dude who's ripped, super wealthy, smoking cigars, saying he's got all the women, he can do whatever he wants, and guys are like, how do I get there?

01:17:46.000 So why do guys go and get jobs?

01:17:48.000 Dude, guys are happy sleeping under bridges.

01:17:50.000 Like, guys are content with very little.

01:17:52.000 It's a large spectrum.

01:17:54.000 And so there's a motivating factor in the biological drive that guys will have is they need to rise to a certain level.

01:18:01.000 But if that level is non-existent, then they just do nothing.

01:18:04.000 I agree too that men are motivated, a lot of men are motivated by achievement.

01:18:07.000 Not all men are motivated to reach the same level of achievement and I think that is maybe a cultural factor.

01:18:12.000 At one point having a family being successfully married was an achievement but now we don't value those things the same way and so both sexes for different reasons don't need to think about well when and why do we want to start a family. 0.98

01:18:24.000 I'd be interested to see a series of interviews with couples who intentionally chose to just have one child because you are dipping your feet in the water, right?

01:18:33.000 I mean, it's serious.

01:18:34.000 You have a kid, you're raising them, but also, like, you stopped after that.

01:18:37.000 What is the justification?

01:18:37.000 Is it economic?

01:18:39.000 Is it cultural?

01:18:40.000 Is it that you both want to be able to have a life outside the home so you alternate who's with the child?

01:18:43.000 Like, why is one There are a lot of YouTubers that have been analyzing modern Gen Z dating.

01:18:49.000 but you are giving up the childless lifestyle that so many people say is what's drawing people away from having

01:18:55.000 families.

01:18:56.000 I think if you—there are a lot of YouTubers that have been analyzing modern Gen Z dating.

01:19:03.000 There have been a lot of memes and jokes about how it's impossible to date as someone who's Gen Z.

01:19:07.000 With these dating apps, and combined with feminism, you have women who can get an abortion whenever they want, 1.00

01:19:13.000 and sure, whatever.

01:19:15.000 So that means they can work their job, hook up with any guy they want, have zero risk for having any kids,

01:19:20.000 and that means they're going to go on apps.

01:19:22.000 These women on apps like Tinder or whatever get inundated with messages. 1.00

01:19:27.000 The two realities are men— Will swipe on every single woman and any opportunity they get they will send a message.

01:19:33.000 Women will swipe on the guys they like and then get instantly messaged by all of them and then scroll through their messages and choose who they want to go hook up with. 1.00

01:19:41.000 The guy who succeeds in this regard doesn't have to do anything.

01:19:45.000 He doesn't need merit.

01:19:46.000 He doesn't whatever.

01:19:47.000 If he gets picked, he gets picked.

01:19:48.000 So a lot of guys who are on the average to lower end of the spectrum just abandon it.

01:19:54.000 They give up.

01:19:55.000 They're like, I can't succeed.

01:19:56.000 This doesn't work.

01:19:57.000 And they become angry.

01:19:57.000 They go online and they lose motivation.

01:20:00.000 There's a lot of guys who are either high testosterone, naturally driven, successful.

01:20:05.000 They're hooking up with all the women. 1.00

01:20:06.000 It is, I think, what is it?

01:20:09.000 20% of men are the ones hooking up with majority of the women.

01:20:12.000 Which is very animalistic if you ask me.

01:20:14.000 And then if you look at the response curve on dating apps, women view men have a natural bell curve for female attractiveness.

01:20:24.000 The ugliest woman is here, the average woman is here, and the most attractive is here. 1.00

01:20:27.000 And then when you look at how women rate men, 80% of men are rated unattractive and only the top 20% are considered to be average or good-looking.

01:20:35.000 So it is very few guys that are succeeding, and then there's a large amount of men that are not succeeding and have given up entirely, and it's created this, I don't know, broken system.

01:20:45.000 There used to be, and I'm not saying it should be that way, I'm just describing what it is, women are independent, they can make their own money, they don't have any risk of having a family. 1.00

01:20:54.000 Back before birth control and abortion, if a woman decided to hook up with a guy and she got pregnant, she better make sure that guy could take care of her because she was in trouble. 0.98

01:21:03.000 That's what life was for the entirety of humanity.

01:21:05.000 Now it's not.

01:21:06.000 Now she can go to a Planned Parenthood and they'll do it for free or whatever or for a minor fee and then she'll drag the guy and make him pay for half and then it's all taken care of. 1.00

01:21:13.000 You said, Joel, what you were saying about the phone and how this distracts people from relationships.

01:21:18.000 Dude, that's so poignant.

01:21:21.000 It's like a mental teleporter that you can get your porn on and when you're swiping on the dating apps it's like, I want to get that item.

01:21:29.000 I want that item.

01:21:30.000 I want that item.

01:21:31.000 That's another good point.

01:21:37.000 Before all of this mass media technology, when a guy had a biological drive, he's like, I gotta find a lady and he's gonna go to a bar.

01:21:45.000 And the woman's gonna be like, I'm not hooking up with you because what if you're a deadbeat and I end up with a kid? 1.00

01:21:49.000 And things changed. 0.98

01:21:50.000 Now, the guys who can't succeed in the dating world, are just doing the weird AI girlfriend garbage. 0.94

01:21:56.000 And then if you're poisoned, dietarily poisoned, literally, with like, 0.93

01:22:00.000 phthalates and whatever God knows is in the foods, the fake food supply,

01:22:03.000 your motivation is screwed. 0.57

01:22:05.000 So like, if you're stuck in the teleporter, the phone, 0.98

01:22:09.000 um, and then you're, you have the bad foods, it's like,

01:22:12.000 damn near impossible to get out of bed in the morning.

01:22:14.000 It's like hard to get off the computer. 0.95

01:22:16.000 For, I've noticed it personally.

01:22:18.000 But man, when you start eating healthy and working out, and like, you don't really need the TV.

01:22:23.000 It's exponential. The...

01:22:27.000 It is extremely hard to go from an out-of-shape sedentary life into a healthy and productive life.

01:22:35.000 It's a challenge.

01:22:36.000 But once you get there, you're a snowball rolling down a hill and it's easier to maintain.

01:22:39.000 Your sperm is probably more healthy, which is why you're aggravated to go find a woman. 0.94

01:22:44.000 It's all part of the cycle of continuity.

01:22:48.000 I imagine. 0.98

01:22:48.000 There's another big component that rates of erectile dysfunction are through the roof because of pornography rotting dudes' brains. 0.98

01:22:55.000 Oh man, there's ads on porn for ED medicine. 0.91

01:22:58.000 It's very sad to watch.

01:23:01.000 This modern society is sick and it's completely broken.

01:23:04.000 I believe the largest component of it is feminism. 1.00

01:23:07.000 I'm not disparaging feminism, I'm making a point.

01:23:10.000 So long as feminism exists as a cultural movement, you are not going to have family drive because women are the driver for family. 1.00

01:23:19.000 And that's the no-fault divorce, I would say.

01:23:22.000 I used to blame that as the reason why men aren't getting married, but I think it's more that they're afraid.

01:23:26.000 And why are they afraid?

01:23:27.000 Because they have low self-esteem.

01:23:28.000 Why? 1.00

01:23:29.000 Because they're stuck in the machine and they're eating crap. 1.00

01:23:31.000 Your self-esteem goes through the fucking roof when you start working out and eating healthy and looking around your environment and taking care of your environment. 0.99

01:23:41.000 I've known people that got married all through the age of no-fault divorce and they're totally happy and have great families. 0.98

01:23:47.000 I know lots of my friends are married with kids.

01:23:49.000 But the fear with no-fault divorce is not that they'll get rejected or something.

01:23:52.000 It's that a guy will find a woman and she'll take his children from him. 1.00

01:23:56.000 It's not the no-fault divorce itself.

01:23:57.000 It's the fear of the no-fault divorce that's driving it.

01:24:00.000 And that fear has spiked in the last like 16 years or something.

01:24:03.000 Torturers learned this a long time ago.

01:24:04.000 The fear of pain is more powerful as a driver than the pain itself.

01:24:08.000 Once you subject the victim to pain, they try to tolerate it.

01:24:11.000 But if they fear the pain is coming, they can break.

01:24:14.000 So it is the fear that a guy will get married, and he'll lose everything, and he'll lose his kids, and he'll end up like Milhouse's dad in The Simpsons, sleeping in a bachelor apartment complex in a race car.

01:24:24.000 That terrifies these guys and they're like, I want to stay away from that.

01:24:27.000 And you have these guys who have the MGTOW, men going their own way, who, many of them, it's actually fascinating because it started with guys who ended up getting divorced and losing their families and said, I'm going to just, you know, be myself and be independent.

01:24:37.000 And then younger guys who never had that started talking about how they would go their own way as well.

01:24:42.000 I think the simple version of it is mass media technology, pornography has fried people's brains, dating apps have made it impossible for a large portion of guys, and Women are no longer being that principal cultural driver of having a family. 0.95

01:24:55.000 Diet.

01:24:56.000 I throw diet in there too, because the poison will just destroy your will to live.

01:25:01.000 If you don't have a reason for being, good luck finding a wife. 0.99

01:25:05.000 That supports your reason.

01:25:08.000 It's like, I will live under a bridge if I'm serving my purpose in the process, but if I have no process, I don't want to live under a bridge, I want comfort.

01:25:15.000 Why?

01:25:17.000 The living under the bridge is the marriage in this metaphor because it's a challenge.

01:25:20.000 When the incel thing got really big in the media six, seven years ago, there was this guy who did an interview.

01:25:26.000 Actually, it was like 10 years ago.

01:25:27.000 And he was like a regular guy.

01:25:28.000 He's like a totally average guy.

01:25:29.000 And he was saying he was an incel or whatever.

01:25:32.000 And everybody on the internet was commenting like, huh?

01:25:34.000 Like, this just looks like a normal dude.

01:25:36.000 What's his problem?

01:25:37.000 His problem was he didn't know how to socialize.

01:25:39.000 And so he internalized all these issues.

01:25:41.000 What are these guys going to do?

01:25:43.000 They're going to go into virtual reality.

01:25:45.000 It's just easier.

01:25:46.000 Virtual reality where you can talk to your chat GPT, like the movie Her or whatever, and fall in love with the avatar woman.

01:25:52.000 Yeah, I just saw AI girlfriends on the porn sites. 0.99

01:25:55.000 Yep, and they got haptic feedback bodysuits, and yep, and then Neuralink's gonna come out with read-write capabilities, and these guys are gonna be like, don't know, don't care, plug me until I die.

01:26:06.000 It could just be the evolution of the species is that the weak among us must go and the strong will stay and repopulate.

01:26:06.000 That's the end.

01:26:13.000 There it is.

01:26:13.000 But maybe not.

01:26:14.000 Maybe we can strengthen the weak.

01:26:16.000 Joel's flipping through his book.

01:26:17.000 I feel like he's about to give us a hypothesis.

01:26:20.000 I've got some stuff on family here.

01:26:22.000 And I talk a little bit about exploring family leave and that sort of thing.

01:26:26.000 And I talked about some of the regulatory changes.

01:26:28.000 But I also think that there needs to be a positive component.

01:26:31.000 And telling people that family is fun.

01:26:35.000 Giving people positive examples of… Somebody's got to rebrand having a family.

01:26:40.000 Yeah.

01:26:41.000 I mean, look, I'm very fortunate.

01:26:43.000 I married an incredible woman. 0.83

01:26:44.000 I feel like if people could understand how much fun marriage is, yes, it's challenging.

01:26:50.000 Yes, kids are challenging.

01:26:52.000 You know, I was going to tell you before when you were saying, why do people only have one child?

01:26:56.000 The first one is the toughest one.

01:26:58.000 You know, maybe after one, it's a little hard to keep going.

01:27:01.000 I think marriage is fun.

01:27:02.000 I think it's sexy.

01:27:03.000 I think that people need to get excited about it again.

01:27:06.000 And we know everything now.

01:27:08.000 We can see everything.

01:27:09.000 We're overexposed to sex and that sort of thing.

01:27:11.000 So it is a challenge to come up with a way of making marriage mysterious and intriguing again.

01:27:20.000 But I think we can do it.

01:27:21.000 I think there is a counterculture that we can create.

01:27:25.000 And I do think that the White House can actually lead in some ways, not just on family, but also on faith.

01:27:32.000 We have a First Amendment, and Congress can't make laws respecting religion. 1.00

01:27:36.000 But the president can put the pulpit in the bully pulpit and start talking about faith.

01:27:40.000 And Trump does, but you know.

01:27:41.000 That's what I want Melania to do. 0.99

01:27:42.000 I want her to retire, be best, and just do family first. 1.00

01:27:46.000 And whether that's, you know, religious.

01:27:47.000 Yes, thank you.

01:27:48.000 If you meet her, let her know.

01:27:49.000 I've got a lot of ideas for her.

01:27:51.000 No, but I really think that, like, she should just be sort of a representation of, like, Marriage and family and why it's good.

01:27:58.000 I mean, she's obviously so devoted to her son and I think a lot of people need to hear the anecdote to these stories, which is like, you know, I like, I want to be childless and, and, you know, kids are annoying and I regret them.

01:28:09.000 But I was like, I think there are way more people who are grateful that they have families or, you know, even exceptional or whatever it is that they are deeply involved with that give purpose and meaning and direction and, and not to steal Kamal Harris's word, but a joy to life that there's kind of no equivalent to.

01:28:26.000 You know, the movie American Beauty, which is a great movie, had all these Oscar nominations.

01:28:30.000 And I remember watching the Oscars that year and the one person who didn't win was Annette Bening and she played the mom.

01:28:35.000 And we've had a culture that for too long, I think, has denigrated moms. 0.96

01:28:39.000 And maybe that's because all the Hollywood writers are guys who resent their moms or they're working out their issues or whatever, but we haven't really celebrated that as a culture.

01:28:48.000 We haven't in a long time.

01:28:50.000 And so I do think there's a positive component to this that we can do.

01:28:53.000 Again, hard for government to lead the way when you're told to be joyful.

01:28:57.000 It's hard to be joyful, but I do think there are ways in which We can have people lead.

01:29:02.000 Melania would be amazing. 0.99

01:29:03.000 So would Ivanka. 0.98

01:29:06.000 I agree with the moms because like I went through a phase where I was angry at my mom for fucking up, for screwing up so many times. 0.97

01:29:12.000 Like we all do. 0.98

01:29:13.000 And then I realized like, yo, she's just a dude.

01:29:17.000 She's just a person that screwed up a little bit, like sometimes, but also was so awesome in a lot of ways.

01:29:25.000 And I got through, I got past that like, I think it's hard growing up, right?

01:29:28.000 Becoming an adult and realizing like your parents are actually deeply human and they're probably struggling with all kinds of stuff that you couldn't see or appreciate as a kid.

01:29:36.000 I'm sure there were challenges and things that like she regrets and you wish had gone differently but ultimately, you know, you want to be able to have a forgiveness where you're like you did in a lot of ways the best you could or at least you tried because I think most parents do.

01:29:49.000 So much of culture right now talks about, you know, parents who are There are.

01:29:52.000 And there are.

01:29:53.000 There are parents who are neglectful, people who have children who don't appreciate the position and the opportunity they have with them.

01:29:58.000 But for the most part, and I like what Joel was saying, you know, having a family is cool and we should all want to do it because it's good.

01:30:05.000 My family was great.

01:30:06.000 It was fun, like with the TV on, playing with like Legos with the brothers and then like...

01:30:11.000 Did you ever – do you ever read anything by David Sedaris, the short story author?

01:30:14.000 Yeah.

01:30:14.000 No.

01:30:15.000 OK.

01:30:15.000 He's one of my favorites, but he talks about – his sister, Amy Sedaris, is a successful actress and they had – I think it's like six kids in their family or several.

01:30:24.000 And he has a line where he talks about, we felt like we were the coolest club on the planet and we didn't understand why people didn't want to be a part of it.

01:30:33.000 Even though they're sort of this eccentric family.

01:30:35.000 And I think – I wish that more people looked at their own nuclear family, the one they grew up in, but also the family they could create as this cool club that you get exclusive membership to.

01:30:45.000 I think he called his dad the rooster.

01:30:47.000 His brother.

01:30:48.000 His brother called himself the rooster.

01:30:50.000 Yeah.

01:30:52.000 Yeah.

01:30:53.000 No, I mean, I think that there's something beautiful about family.

01:30:56.000 And I think the problem is – and this is where J.D.

01:30:58.000 dance runs into trouble. When you do talk about family or you hear conservatives

01:31:01.000 talk about family they can sound didactic like you should have a family

01:31:05.000 that looks like my family look at this wonderful family and he does have a

01:31:08.000 wonderful family and I think that bothers people even people who want to

01:31:12.000 have that family because it's not easy to do.

01:31:15.000 Meeting the right person is really hard.

01:31:17.000 And I think people feel talked down to a little bit.

01:31:21.000 And I think that J.D.

01:31:22.000 Vance, before he became a politician and had to be accountable to people, did say a few things that, if you take them in the wrong context, could look like he's telling you, you have to have this kind of family and you should be more like me.

01:31:33.000 And nobody wants to hear that from anybody.

01:31:34.000 So there's got to be a way of doing it.

01:31:36.000 that celebrates the great stuff that family can bring to people

01:31:40.000 without making you feel bad if your family is unconventional.

01:31:43.000 If you call your brother the rooster or if you have divorce or whatever in your family like so many of us do.

01:31:48.000 I mean all families have problems.

01:31:50.000 It's not having a perfect family.

01:31:52.000 It's just having a support system.

01:31:55.000 Yeah.

01:31:56.000 You mentioned a couple policy solutions and it makes me – what you're saying now is making me think of – there's a couple Eastern European countries that have offered tax credit for grandparents who want to stay as – like if the parents are working, you can get some kind of stipend or tax credit from the government where the grandparents are the ones with the children.

01:32:14.000 I think for a lot of people that would be nice, right?

01:32:16.000 I mean right now especially Democrats offer you earlier and earlier universal preschool.

01:32:20.000 You could give your children to the government earlier, but you couldn't find a way to keep them with, you know, your parents who you probably like, or at least your in-laws, you know, some adult in adult relation who you know loves and cares about your individual child.

01:32:34.000 So I've got that here in the agenda.

01:32:36.000 I know it's a short book, but it's got a lot in it.

01:32:38.000 And one of the things Trump can do is he can say to the IRS, you need to change the regulations around what is considered a dependent and you need to find ways without having to go to Congress because Congress is ultimately responsible for the tax code, but there have to be regulatory changes.

01:32:53.000 That encourage these multi-generational families, that encourage people to group together and stay together, that can relieve a lot of the cost of child care.

01:33:00.000 Child care is really expensive.

01:33:02.000 I mean, you know, in the Jewish community where people like to send their kids to religious schools if they can afford it, the joke is that the most effective form of birth control is tuition.

01:33:10.000 But, you know, it's expensive even just to have an ordinary child who's not going to private school.

01:33:17.000 I mean, it is just so expensive.

01:33:19.000 How do you leave a child at home With whom are you leaving the child?

01:33:23.000 It's hard.

01:33:23.000 So I think that Ivanka Trump had the right idea.

01:33:26.000 Some of these things won't be possible in the first hundred days.

01:33:28.000 I talk about some of that in the last chapter of the book.

01:33:30.000 You do need acts of Congress for some of these policy changes.

01:33:33.000 But I do think that we've got to get the population back above replacement rate.

01:33:36.000 And look, we've got to have fun again.

01:33:40.000 You know, MAFA, Make America Fun Again.

01:33:44.000 I told my wife who grew up in South Africa that during the Trump years, like 2018, 2019, when things were really going well, It felt like it felt to me growing up in the 80s in America.

01:33:53.000 Like, things were fun again.

01:33:55.000 We felt like we were kind of rocking and rolling.

01:33:56.000 And then happened, you know, the pandemic and everything.

01:33:58.000 But I just think we need a positive vision of America also to sustain this idea of family.

01:34:03.000 When you think your country is moving in the right direction and you have confidence in the future, you have more babies.

01:34:08.000 You just do.

01:34:09.000 Imagine if the price of fuel, like, dropped dramatically and all of a sudden, like, because I'm obsessed with hydrogen.

01:34:15.000 You probably don't have anything in there about hydrogen fuel, my guess?

01:34:18.000 I do.

01:34:18.000 Oh, that's fascinating.

01:34:22.000 Look, I'm very big on expanding fossil fuel production, but I've got a section here.

01:34:27.000 There's no reason you can't have an all-of-the-above approach.

01:34:29.000 So all of these things, hydrogen, solar, you know, why is it that we can't make money anymore from putting solar panels in our homes?

01:34:36.000 It used to be when this was starting and they were trying to get people to adopt the solar panels, that if you fed energy back into the grid, if you fed power back into the grid, you got some kind of payment.

01:34:45.000 It's still true. 0.77

01:34:46.000 In California, they don't let you do it anymore. 1.00

01:34:48.000 Well, they suck. 1.00

01:34:48.000 Here, it's true. 1.00

01:34:49.000 Is it still true here?

01:34:50.000 We get a credit.

01:34:51.000 Okay, so in California, what happened was the big energy companies started making these investments in these big solar fields out in the desert, and they're like, well, we want to return on that investment.

01:34:59.000 We don't want people to be mom-and-popping the whole thing by having their own solar panels, so that doesn't happen anymore.

01:35:05.000 But I'm glad to hear it's still happening, but why can't We don't get cash or anything, we just get a credit towards... because we don't produce more than we consume.

01:35:12.000 You can do it with hydrogen, too.

01:35:14.000 They figured out at Rice University a technology called flash-joule heating, where you pulse carbon at 7,000 degree electricity, like 0.1 millisecond flashes, and you convert carbon trash, like plastic, into this black powder graphene, bulk graphene, and it releases a kilogram of hydrogen.

01:35:30.000 For every $4.50 of graphene you produce, you get a kilogram of hydrogen fuel.

01:35:35.000 Wow.

01:35:36.000 It's awesome.

01:35:43.000 So I don't have that.

01:35:44.000 I had never heard of that before.

01:35:45.000 But you know, there are so many different technologies that we can invest in at the same time that we're expanding this fossil fuel stuff.

01:35:51.000 And Democrats like to portray it as all or Yeah, because the oil and gas industry will resist the hydrogen move, but what you can do is you can convert the oil and the coal into graphene as well with that same flash-joule heating process.

01:36:04.000 We can pump more and drill more, and it'll be even more profitable for those industries as well. 0.74

01:36:10.000 We should put that on the agenda.

01:36:11.000 That's super big.

01:36:12.000 Add it to your book.

01:36:14.000 Addendum.

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01:36:37.000 Tomorrow, it's going to be Tenet Media on YouTube for the Culture War podcast, where Ian and I will be discussing with a simulation theorist and a Christian about the greater questions of reality and the universe, and it should be a lot of fun.

01:36:49.000 But for now, we'll read your Super Chats.

01:36:51.000 Joshua French says, Howdy people!

01:36:54.000 Congratulations on being first.

01:36:55.000 You're the first Super Chat.

01:36:55.000 Good, sir.

01:36:56.000 You win.

01:36:57.000 Nice job, dude.

01:36:57.000 No, you were second.

01:36:58.000 Am I first? Unfortunately, you are not.

01:36:58.000 Nice try, though.

01:37:00.000 You are not. 0.99

01:37:02.000 Darn all, I wasn't first. Indeed you are not. Indeed you are not. 0.99

01:37:05.000 Cory Crider says, Tim, chicken over, Lord. Missouri just locked in the right to bear chickens. I know!

01:37:11.000 This is some of the greatest news ever.

01:37:14.000 We have this from Springfield News Leader.

01:37:17.000 This is, uh, the right to raise chickens through a larger bill focused on real property.

01:37:21.000 Parson Greenland, a restriction that keeps homeowners associations from prohibiting residents from raising backyard chickens.

01:37:27.000 Under the law, property owners, even those under HOAs, can own up to six chickens on properties, at least two-tenths of an acre in size.

01:37:36.000 HOAs can still regulate the ownership of roosters. 0.75

01:37:39.000 So we're halfway there, guys.

01:37:40.000 We're halfway there.

01:37:41.000 Roosters, they're noisy little dudes. 1.00

01:37:42.000 Yeah, they're terrifyingly noisy.

01:37:44.000 So I can understand that.

01:37:46.000 But I believe that, was it the 28th Amendment?

01:37:49.000 The chickens, being necessary to a free and secure state, the right of the people to keep, bear, and breed chickens shall not be infringed.

01:37:57.000 What about cutting out the rooster's vocal box?

01:38:00.000 Is that just- They do that.

01:38:01.000 They do?

01:38:02.000 Yeah, I say no to that stuff.

01:38:03.000 It's pretty inhumane, but they're not human.

01:38:05.000 So, like, I don't know.

01:38:06.000 Yeah, and they do like vocal snipping and they have collars and things and they go... The choke collars look pretty nasty.

01:38:12.000 Yeah, that's not how you do it.

01:38:14.000 Not for a free chicken.

01:38:15.000 Nah, roosters gotta yell. 1.00

01:38:15.000 But if you're gonna stick them in the city and they gotta reproduce the chickens and fertilize the eggs... Dude, it would be the greatest thing in the world if you lived in like a suburban residential block with like 300 homes and everyone had roosters. 1.00

01:38:26.000 So in the morning it was a cacophony of like... In every direction.

01:38:30.000 Maybe you can genetically engineer them through breeding so that they don't scream.

01:38:35.000 There are some that scream less than others.

01:38:37.000 Just, you know.

01:38:38.000 One of the illusions you have living in a city and growing up in a city is that roosters only crow in the morning.

01:38:44.000 Right.

01:38:44.000 Yeah.

01:38:45.000 People believe that.

01:38:46.000 It's like all the time.

01:38:47.000 It's not sad.

01:38:48.000 4 p.m.

01:38:49.000 It's always the morning somewhere on Earth, I guess.

01:38:51.000 But it's because the rooster wakes up, and then once he's awake, he screams.

01:38:54.000 At 4 a.m., 5 a.m.

01:38:54.000 And so it wakes you up, but they scream.

01:38:56.000 And if I scream, he screams.

01:38:57.000 If I'm playing music at 5 a.m., they'll start screaming.

01:39:00.000 It's funny.

01:39:00.000 They'll start singing along.

01:39:01.000 You know, so people genuinely believe that roosters just crow when the sun comes up, and it's like, no, it's because they woke up, they start screaming, and then they scream non-stop for the rest of the day.

01:39:07.000 That's all they do.

01:39:10.000 And I wonder what the stimulus is.

01:39:14.000 Like, the rooster's walking around, and they're just looking around, and he just goes, and just screams.

01:39:18.000 And I'm like, why?

01:39:19.000 What did he see?

01:39:20.000 What did he feel that made him decide to do that?

01:39:25.000 They just do it.

01:39:25.000 If they hear you singing, they might start in sometime.

01:39:28.000 They're trying to scare you.

01:39:29.000 It's like, this is my territory, Ian.

01:39:32.000 That is what they're doing.

01:39:34.000 Oh, they want to scare away the predators?

01:39:35.000 They're basically screaming to be like, there's a rooster here, we'll mess you up.

01:39:39.000 He's threatening you.

01:39:41.000 When you sing, he's threatening you.

01:39:42.000 Now that I know that. 0.90

01:39:42.000 Adult roosters have the spurs that will slice you up. 0.90

01:39:45.000 They give you a fair warning first.

01:39:47.000 Well, they're yelling because when critters come, they'll fight you.

01:39:49.000 There are birds that can see magnetic fields, so maybe... I don't know if chickens can, too.

01:39:53.000 Pigeons can feel it.

01:39:54.000 Oh, that's cool.

01:39:55.000 I don't know about chickens, but chickens are good people.

01:39:58.000 Good people.

01:40:00.000 All right.

01:40:01.000 The Simple Gunsmith says, Hey Tim, about the elevator in Casper location, I work at a shop that would be able to machine all the parts to get the elevator up to code.

01:40:07.000 If you're interested, reach out to Tool Tech Machine, Inc.

01:40:10.000 in Oxford, Michigan.

01:40:11.000 The challenge is it's very expensive.

01:40:13.000 And so we're looking at exorbitant costs to repair an elevator.

01:40:16.000 It's not just the parts.

01:40:17.000 It's the labor.

01:40:18.000 And we're like, prohibitively expensive, but we don't want to get rid of a historic elevator.

01:40:22.000 So we'll figure it out.

01:40:23.000 The cheaper solution is to like build a new door or something, which then change changes second floor into a separate private area.

01:40:30.000 Simple enough.

01:40:32.000 All right.

01:40:34.000 We'll grab some more Super Chats here, we'll scroll down a little bit.

01:40:37.000 Let's see, S. Bucks Fox says, the image of Crooks walking with a rifle is an illusion.

01:40:41.000 Watch the full video, the still frame that it came from.

01:40:44.000 It's only that one frame of the video where it looks like he has a rifle.

01:40:47.000 He wasn't walking with a rifle visible left.

01:40:50.000 Interesting.

01:40:51.000 That would make sense.

01:40:52.000 It is dumbfounding to think they saw a dude with a rifle walking around.

01:40:55.000 Where'd he get the gun?

01:40:58.000 The FBI says that he pulled it out of his backpack and assembled it.

01:41:01.000 Yeah, nobody believes them.

01:41:04.000 All right.

01:41:04.000 Russell Davis says, put my dog Bruno down yesterday.

01:41:06.000 He was 16.

01:41:08.000 Watching you guys helps me out mucho.

01:41:09.000 Thanks y'all and love y'all.

01:41:12.000 Sad to hear it.

01:41:13.000 Sad to hear it.

01:41:14.000 16 years.

01:41:14.000 That's a run.

01:41:15.000 Yeah.

01:41:16.000 Yeah.

01:41:16.000 Shout out to Bruno.

01:41:17.000 Yeah.

01:41:18.000 There is a big tree that has grown where Bocas was laid to rest.

01:41:21.000 Wow.

01:41:22.000 A big tree now, right over his little gravestone.

01:41:25.000 All right.

01:41:26.000 And we took two chair legs and we made a cross, because we are not Christian, but for some reason it's the moral tradition that we... Bocas was. 0.56

01:41:34.000 He certainly was.

01:41:35.000 The crossroads of where matter meets spirit.

01:41:38.000 We were thinking about that when we were marking his grave.

01:41:40.000 We were like, what should we put?

01:41:41.000 We're like, we'll put a cross. 0.98

01:41:41.000 And I was like, I mean, that's like a Christian symbol for the deceased, I believe, right? 0.98

01:41:46.000 It's become that, but it was basically where they would crucify criminals.

01:41:50.000 No, I understand that, but why do we put crosses to mark a gravesite?

01:41:55.000 It's like the Christian, spiritual, Jesus rose from the dead, Jesus was crucified. 0.83

01:42:00.000 I don't know why.

01:42:00.000 All I know is that we are attached to it.

01:42:03.000 It's unfortunate that we as a society recognize that's what we do.

01:42:05.000 The murder tool, the crucifix, or the cross, I guess.

01:42:10.000 That's kind of crazy too, but I'm just saying, you know, American society recognizes the tradition but doesn't understand why they do it, which is a shame.

01:42:18.000 That's when I part ways with tradition, is when there's a lack of understanding about why it exists.

01:42:25.000 Yeah, I was actually wondering, I was like, is it offensive to Christians that we use a cross to mark a gravesite when we're not Christians ourselves?

01:42:30.000 And I'm like, I don't know, I feel like we're supposed to do it.

01:42:33.000 You know, that's what everyone does.

01:42:35.000 But, you know, I don't know.

01:42:36.000 I think yes, it would be offensive.

01:42:38.000 I don't think so.

01:42:40.000 All right.

01:42:41.000 S.A.

01:42:41.000 Federali says, what Tim is describing is spot on.

01:42:43.000 This is a reference to the flags.

01:42:45.000 In the mid-90s, I was told in Florida the stars and bars was about Southern love and nothing racist.

01:42:50.000 I bought the seashell necklace and almost And was almost killed in a GA gas station?

01:42:55.000 Narrative control.

01:42:57.000 What is the seashell necklace?

01:42:57.000 What does that mean?

01:43:01.000 No idea.

01:43:02.000 Not familiar with that one.

01:43:05.000 Gnarly Marley says Joel is a daily Breitbart reader.

01:43:07.000 There has been a noticeable increase in the use of leftism terms like migrants and censoring of inoffensive words in the comments.

01:43:13.000 Please explain.

01:43:16.000 I don't know about the comments, but there was a shift toward migrants maybe about five or six years ago because Brandon Darby, who's our border editor, wanted us to be very precise.

01:43:31.000 The people coming to our southern border aren't all coming illegally.

01:43:35.000 There is some minority that has a legitimate asylum claim.

01:43:41.000 Merely arriving at the border doesn't make them illegal aliens.

01:43:43.000 When they cross illegally, they are illegal aliens, or when they claim that they're seeking asylum and they're not, they're Unlawfully in the country, but basically migrant is a more precise term for the person who shows up at the border What happens after that is different. 0.89

01:43:59.000 I use illegal aliens and headlines all the time. 0.90

01:44:01.000 I don't think that that's necessarily an offensive term It just describes what's happening and we do use that but we definitely moved toward migrants Because it was more accurate to describe what we started reporting on and actually Brandon was the first back in 2014 the first to report on the Kids showing up at the border by the hundreds and he published those first photographs of the kids basically being warehoused in Border Patrol facilities But that would make them illegal immigrants 0.94

01:44:31.000 At that point, yes.

01:44:32.000 And what was interesting was that CNN, as much as they hated us, had to use our photographs because we were the only ones.

01:44:37.000 Now, of course, everyone's covering it.

01:44:40.000 So when you're talking about data arrivals at the border, you'll use migrants, but when you're talking about the number of illegal immigrants that have taken up space in shelters in Massachusetts, you would use illegal immigrants?

01:44:52.000 Or would you still assume that there's a mix of people with legitimate claim and not?

01:44:57.000 I think generally it's accurate to call them illegal aliens because the number of legitimate asylum cases is just so small.

01:45:04.000 But it wasn't like there was a nod to political correctness.

01:45:07.000 We didn't start using migrants because we were afraid to call them illegal aliens.

01:45:10.000 I do it all the time in headlines and so forth because, again, I think it's accurate. 0.58

01:45:13.000 But Brandon pointed out, look, some of this movement, at least when they're traveling to our country, they haven't yet broken any of our laws.

01:45:20.000 We call that the migrant caravan or whatever.

01:45:24.000 All right, what do we have here?

01:45:26.000 Big Cow Productions says, I'm loving Ian's more pensive arc.

01:45:28.000 He seems much more humble these last few shows, and I feel he's on a learning journey.

01:45:32.000 Love you, Ian.

01:45:33.000 And no, Lucifer was not the underdog or misunderstood.

01:45:36.000 Oh, I do think Lucifer, the Lightbringer, had electricity and was like, we got to give this to the masses.

01:45:40.000 And what is his name?

01:45:41.000 Michael and all his other archangels were like, No, you know what happened last time they got that kind of power?

01:45:46.000 The whole world was vibrated into death with that Atlantis flood. 1.00

01:45:50.000 So Lucifer was like, screw you, I'm giving it to the masses because truth must prevail.

01:45:54.000 I think it'd be a good movie. 0.92

01:45:56.000 But I've been working out before the shows, maybe that's why I come across more pensive.

01:45:59.000 Maybe that's literally why I'm more pensive.

01:46:01.000 It's a testosterone.

01:46:02.000 It's increasing.

01:46:05.000 It's gonna be a year from now and Ian's gonna be super massive and he's just gonna be sitting there with a beard just like nodding like yes.

01:46:11.000 It's funny how shame like I'm like I can't go on the show with wiener arms and I don't want to wear long sleeve shirts in the 90 degree heat so I'm gonna hump a little before the show.

01:46:18.000 George says there's a video game called We Happy Few set in a dystopian city where everyone is required to take a medication called joy.

01:46:24.000 Joy makes you hallucinate and see the world in cheerful colors and numbs you to emotions.

01:46:29.000 I remember that game.

01:46:30.000 It looks fun.

01:46:31.000 Haven't played it.

01:46:32.000 I also recommend, um, uh, let's, let me, let me pull up a Capital of Conformity.

01:46:38.000 You know, there was an article recently just on that topic.

01:46:42.000 It's unreasonable to expect joy all the time.

01:46:44.000 Like that's a state of mind that can only be achieved through chemicals.

01:46:49.000 Like you can't like life, you're going to be bored.

01:46:51.000 You're going to be grumpy, even if everything's going well, like I think it's, yeah.

01:46:57.000 If you guys have not seen this, we shouted it out a while ago when it came out, because this is now a year ago.

01:47:01.000 Capital of Conformity was sent to me.

01:47:03.000 It's a YouTube video by Azay Alter, who has now turned it into a series with a bunch of different videos.

01:47:08.000 And I feel like his Capital of Conformity, it's 2 minutes and 42 minutes long, is a short film.

01:47:13.000 It's it's a modern masterpiece.

01:47:15.000 Shout out to Azay Alter on YouTube.

01:47:18.000 Because the use of AI makes it really feel like how a nightmare feels.

01:47:24.000 And the short film is basically about living in a society where you are required to smile basically if someone if someone doesn't have a smile, let us know report them and you can win cash prizes and people have virtual reality where they live in this fake world where they can relive their moments. 0.66

01:47:38.000 They're all morbidly obese eating garbage and disgusting food.

01:47:41.000 But the AI video At its point, made it all look like how a nightmare feels. 0.99

01:47:48.000 It's so well done.

01:47:49.000 One of my favorite videos on YouTube.

01:47:52.000 Let's grab a couple more Super Chats.

01:47:55.000 Cool Modi says, under Tim Waltz, Minnesota banned Christians from teaching in public schools.

01:47:59.000 Several sources online, this came from The Federalist.

01:48:02.000 Really?

01:48:03.000 Yeah, I saw that article today, but I didn't read it.

01:48:07.000 It sounded a little bit too sweeping.

01:48:09.000 Like, I can't imagine that it actually happened that they went through the schools and said, okay, no Christians can teach here.

01:48:16.000 This is an interesting one.

01:48:17.000 X10man says, I believe the problem with installing EV chargers in Maine was the requirement for minority-owned businesses installing them. 1.00

01:48:23.000 Maine is mighty white.

01:48:26.000 Is that if that's true, explains it.

01:48:28.000 That's very funny. It might be true.

01:48:30.000 I mean, installing EV chargers is not simple for a lot of reasons.

01:48:34.000 And I've referenced a couple of times, but Wyoming banned the sale of EV vehicles at one point because they said,

01:48:39.000 effectively, we do not have the infrastructure to support EV cars.

01:48:43.000 They come with more complications.

01:48:45.000 It's like you need different emergency protocols.

01:48:49.000 And so there might have been resistance on the state level to a certain point because the standards were almost too

01:48:55.000 difficult to meet.

01:48:56.000 It'd be great if we could build parking lots that charged the vehicles wirelessly and just every 30 miles or 20 miles,

01:49:03.000 you've got an electric parking.

01:49:05.000 I hear people talk about this with solar.

01:49:06.000 You have these big parking lots and you build the roofs over them that have solar panels on top because then the cars have shade which is nice for anybody underneath and then you're, you know, getting energy from the sun.

01:49:16.000 All right, so I've got the answer on Tim Walz and Christian teachers.

01:49:19.000 So he signed a law that will require teachers who are applying for licenses to teach in the state to affirm that they believe in transgenderism and that sort of thing.

01:49:32.000 So if transgenderism conflicts with Christian teachings and That's interesting. 0.99

01:49:36.000 of the other articles points out it conflicts with other religious teachings

01:49:39.000 as well, then you can't really be a practicing member of those faiths and

01:49:42.000 also be a teacher. Probably most people just sign the form and teach anyway, so

01:49:47.000 it's not your Christian faith that they're trying to exclude, it's

01:49:51.000 just saying that you have to include these other beliefs even if your faith

01:49:55.000 tells you you can't. That's interesting. That's probably gonna see a Supreme

01:49:59.000 Court case. It should.

01:50:01.000 It's creepy that you'd be policing someone's thoughts that way.

01:50:03.000 Well, you know, it just happened.

01:50:04.000 I forget where it was, but there was a teacher who said, I'm not going to use your preferred gender pronouns.

01:50:09.000 It's against my First Amendment right.

01:50:11.000 And it went to the federal courts and the federal court agreed that this is a violation of the First Amendment.

01:50:18.000 You can't force someone to say ZZR or whatever your pronoun is going to be.

01:50:23.000 You know, I kind of feel like these people are playing it wrong.

01:50:27.000 I can respect the straightforward, I won't do it, take me to court.

01:50:30.000 But I do feel like the appropriate response from a teacher is to just say, oh, you don't

01:50:33.000 use the normal binary pronouns?

01:50:37.000 What do you go by, ZZR?

01:50:38.000 Well, I'm going to call you FLIRB.

01:50:41.000 And...

01:50:42.000 And it's because I don't want to use a pronoun that would be wrong for anybody who may otherwise be non-binary or who could be offended by ZZIR.

01:50:48.000 So if we're trying to be accepting of everybody, you're now FLIRB.

01:50:50.000 And I'm gonna call you FLIRB in front of everybody.

01:50:52.000 And then when they're like, don't call me, that'd be like, you can't tell me not to because it would be offensive to others to call you by a term that's offensive.

01:50:58.000 So in order to be non-offensive, I'm going to use a word that means nothing to anybody.

01:51:02.000 You might get put on leave for harassment if they start calling a kid something weird.

01:51:07.000 Not that Zeezer is not weird, but saying, like, he, him... And this is my point.

01:51:13.000 You respond with, you know, we had complaints about kids using weird words that were offensive terms.

01:51:20.000 So we're using a gender-neutral word now for anybody who doesn't want to go by he, him, or she, her.

01:51:25.000 So we're using flurb.

01:51:26.000 It is dehumanizing.

01:51:30.000 So we use flurb, or flurbo.

01:51:31.000 As if Zee isn't dehumanizing.

01:51:34.000 Hell. 0.93

01:51:34.000 Yep. 0.93

01:51:36.000 And then what you do is you reassert your right to call them whatever you want, using their own logic against them.

01:51:41.000 I heard another approach.

01:51:43.000 There was a woman who happens to be lesbian who raised two daughters and was telling me that one of the daughters decided that she wanted to become transgender or non-binary.

01:51:53.000 So the mother, who was a little shocked at first, it's interesting to her experiencing parenthood

01:51:59.000 as a lesbian to now find your kid going beyond a boundary that even you wouldn't have crossed. 1.00

01:52:03.000 But the mother said, okay, well, I'm also changing my gender.

01:52:06.000 And the daughter was like, what?

01:52:08.000 And the mom was like, yeah, I'm now male.

01:52:11.000 You are going to refer to me by male pronouns.

01:52:13.000 And the daughter- It was like, no.

01:52:15.000 Yeah, she's like so upset that her mom was also changing gender that she said, 0.99

01:52:18.000 okay, just forget it, forget about it.

01:52:20.000 So she just gave it up.

01:52:21.000 It was rebellion, partly, is what it was.

01:52:23.000 Right, there was one story that was, it was a viral post that came from Reddit, I think.

01:52:27.000 A guy said that his daughter came to him and said that she was transgender and she was a boy.

01:52:33.000 And he talked to her a little bit about it.

01:52:35.000 And then eventually the school said that we're going to now transition your daughter and your son.

01:52:41.000 They said your son.

01:52:42.000 And he will be referred to as, you know, Max or whatever.

01:52:45.000 And the guy's response was, I really appreciate it.

01:52:47.000 Thank you so much for helping my child.

01:52:49.000 Let me know what I need to do to help my son navigate this so that we can get him all the help he needs.

01:52:55.000 And then they said, no problem.

01:52:56.000 And then a week later he says, I got a new job offer and I'm going to be relocating but thank you for everything you've done and we'll make sure to follow up with the gender affirmation with you and let you know how things are going.

01:53:05.000 Moved to the countryside and he said within three months my daughter was back to normal and was acting like a normal teenage girl.

01:53:10.000 Yeah.

01:53:11.000 Pulling the person away from the cult.

01:53:13.000 Yeah.

01:53:13.000 To remove them from those social pressures.

01:53:15.000 And that's the fear, especially in California where...

01:53:18.000 The state government is now taking away the right of parents to know what's going on in the schools.

01:53:23.000 I actually confronted Gavin Newsom about this last year, and I said to him, why don't parents have the right to know?

01:53:27.000 If a child says at school, I want to change my gender, why should the school not inform the parent?

01:53:32.000 I mean, you have to get a signature on a field trip permission slip.

01:53:35.000 Why, you know, changing gender? 0.99

01:53:37.000 And he tried to shift the conversation.

01:53:39.000 Basically, the argument is these kids, if they're outed by being forced to tell their parents, are going to die, like they're going to commit suicide.

01:53:46.000 So they jump from You know, this is a tough situation we're trying to manage.

01:53:51.000 You don't want the kids to die, do you?

01:53:53.000 You're going to kill your own kid by trying to take care of the child. 1.00

01:53:57.000 So, it's totally ridiculous. 1.00

01:54:01.000 Let's read this. 0.91

01:54:02.000 We got Rich Galdus.

01:54:02.000 After 20 years of trying and close to $100,000 in reproduction services, my wife and I are having our first child this February because of IVF and embryo adoption.

01:54:11.000 We would love to educate you all on it.

01:54:13.000 We are so excited.

01:54:13.000 Congratulations!

01:54:14.000 Yeah, that's awesome.

01:54:15.000 Sounds great.

01:54:16.000 Glad to hear it.

01:54:19.000 SN says, my wife and I are on our second pregnancy through IVF.

01:54:21.000 We tried for years on our own and utilized other fertility treatment options before doing IVF. 0.54

01:54:26.000 So far we've spent around $40,000.

01:54:27.000 I guess we should have an IVF specialist on now because I have questions that I don't think can be answered.

01:54:32.000 IVF is really fascinating.

01:54:33.000 I think it'd be a really good culture war episode because I think people know the letters, but they don't know what the process is like and it's not easy.

01:54:40.000 And it's, I mean, it's a really, really tough journey for a lot of people.

01:54:43.000 Hmm.

01:54:45.000 Cool Modi says, Tim Waltz repealed Minnesota law protecting babies born after failed abortions.

01:54:51.000 Five babies died in Minnesota after they were born alive due to a failed and induced abortion in 2021.

01:54:56.000 Wow.

01:54:57.000 That's crazy.

01:54:58.000 Yeah, and in Virginia what happened was, it was, who was it, Northam?

01:55:03.000 He said, if the, you know, how we would handle this is the baby would be born, it would be delivered, it would be made comfortable, and then the doctor and the mother would go into the other room and make a decision on what happens next.

01:55:17.000 And that decision was whether or not to kill the baby that was born.

01:55:20.000 Later on, he said, he's talking about severe deformity or, you know, issues with the baby.

01:55:25.000 And then the left made a whole bunch of excuses as to why they should be allowed to have these procedures.

01:55:32.000 And they said extreme cases like a baby born without a spine or without a heart or something wouldn't survive anyway.

01:55:38.000 And it's a weird issue because if a baby is born with these severe deformities and it cannot survive, then you don't need to have an abortion for it.

01:55:46.000 You would literally just be like, medical science cannot keep your son alive.

01:55:50.000 I'm sorry.

01:55:50.000 It was just about mitigating suffering for the child at that point.

01:55:54.000 So the idea that you could have an abortion at or after birth is an absurdity that makes no sense.

01:56:00.000 It defies the definition of the term abort.

01:56:03.000 That means to deprioritize or end the pregnancy. 0.83

01:56:07.000 Once it's born, there's no possibility of aborting a human.

01:56:11.000 Right.

01:56:11.000 And we had a leftist on the show once who, when asked, at what point is a human being alive, he says, at some point after birth.

01:56:19.000 Right.

01:56:21.000 There was a famous quote, I think it was by Senator Barbara Boxer, and she may have misspoken, but it's in the congressional record, where she seemed to suggest that you could still have an abortion after you went home with the baby.

01:56:30.000 It's like, you know, you come home from the hospital and... I don't like this.

01:56:36.000 A few too many sleepless nights and you decide to start.

01:56:38.000 Which is wild because you can literally, legally, just take the baby, wrap it in a little blanket, put it in a basket, and put it on a post office doorstep, and that's legal and allowed.

01:56:48.000 The safe havens where you can drop off a baby at a fire department or whatever.

01:56:51.000 Yet there are still people who would rather just kill it, which is nuts. 0.58

01:56:54.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:56:55.000 Crazy, man.

01:56:56.000 Tenth Element says my son was conceived through IVF.

01:56:59.000 Only five were viable to the stage of implantation.

01:57:02.000 Two of them failed after implantation.

01:57:04.000 The third one resulted in my son.

01:57:06.000 The last two we donated to a family who couldn't conceive.

01:57:08.000 The embryos aren't discarded by default.

01:57:11.000 It depends on the family though, right?

01:57:13.000 Like that's a choice that you made and that's great.

01:57:15.000 I think that's wonderful.

01:57:16.000 But there are people who decide ultimately that they're done and they don't want to pay to keep their embryos frozen.

01:57:20.000 And there are other options.

01:57:22.000 I'm just saying like it's great that that's a decision you make.

01:57:25.000 That's not true of every embryo that's conceived through IVF.

01:57:28.000 Jay Smith says, Tim, if you're looking for an atheist to have on for a debate, I'd recommend Matt Dillahunty.

01:57:34.000 Once studied to be a pastor, but changed the more he studied.

01:57:38.000 Very knowledgeable and keeps a calm head.

01:57:40.000 I will tell you the issue I take with most atheists—because I won't say all, because I've not debated all atheists—is that Every instance I've ever debated an atheist, they will either say, I don't believe in fairy tales, there's no man in the sky, there's no great being, and all of these things are lower-ordered thinking.

01:58:01.000 That is not an insult.

01:58:03.000 Lower-order thinking is talking about the depth of what you are discussing, and highest-order thinking could be talking about multiple realities and probabilities and forks in, you know, probabilities and systems, their definitions.

01:58:18.000 That's higher-order thinking.

01:58:20.000 So for a lot of the atheists that I debate, their atheism is rooted in, I don't believe the Bible is real, I don't believe the Quran is real, things like that.

01:58:26.000 And I'm like, uh-huh, well that's nothing to do with the existence of God or not.

01:58:30.000 If we're talking about God, an entity beyond comprehension or the logos of the universe, that has literally nothing to do with whether or not you believe humans who tell stories are correct or not.

01:58:41.000 If your argument is that you don't agree with organized religion and you think people are telling, you know, fairy tales, okay.

01:58:48.000 Now, on to the question of God, which is a totally different question.

01:58:52.000 Most atheists that I have conversations with end there, and they'll say—they'll just repeat the same thing over and over again. 0.82

01:58:58.000 Of those who are much smarter, they instantly agree and say, oh, okay, well then we're talking about something else.

01:59:03.000 And I'm like, okay, so you're not— So you're not actually an atheist, right?

01:59:07.000 Either lacking a belief in God or disbelieving in God, you're actually an agnostic arguing against organized religion, which is a different thing.

01:59:13.000 They just lump atheists into... And so it still is, in my opinion, low-ordered thinking to associate the concept of God, or the logos of the universe, with a human story, which is, again, lower order thinking. Not

01:59:27.000 an insult. It's like believing that a man in the cloud is watching you. Now, to be fair

01:59:32.000 about that, there are quite literally men operating machines in the clouds that are spying on us,

01:59:37.000 trying to determine whether or not we're doing good or bad things. And that's actually kind of

01:59:41.000 creepy, but that's real.

01:59:42.000 There quite literally are objects flying around in outer space that spy on people to determine whether or not we're doing things that are in or out of line with what they want to do, and they will punish you if you do bad things.

01:59:52.000 They're called satellites.

01:59:54.000 We use them for surveillance and spying and reconnaissance, and then various governments will raid or attack other people based on them doing naughty things.

02:00:02.000 So there quite literally is an eye in the sky watching everything you do.

02:00:05.000 That's besides the point.

02:00:06.000 Yeah.

02:00:07.000 Like, can God actually perceive you?

02:00:09.000 Yes.

02:00:11.000 That's a bold claim.

02:00:12.000 We'll find out tomorrow morning.

02:00:14.000 Consciousness is an observable fact of reality, and consciousness exists as a component of reality, ergo, reality has consciousness.

02:00:21.000 But I think sentience, more of that sentience, and that consciousness is when that sentience corroborates with matter, and that if God is ephemeral, ethereal, that it doesn't have consciousness, it's only sentient.

02:00:33.000 You can have an argument of an Einsteinian God, a great power that does not interfere with the day-to-day ongoings of humanity, or you can believe in a Christian God who has a preferred outcome and watches, but those are totally different arguments outside of whether God exists.

02:00:48.000 Religion is like one guy's experience with God, and then a bunch of people wrote it down and are like, now I'm going to think that that guy is the one that was able—but it's like, bro, God is real.

02:00:58.000 Well, we can talk about this tomorrow.

02:01:00.000 Yeah, we'll grab one more Super Chat before we go.

02:01:01.000 And then tomorrow the show is on Tenet Media if you want to watch us debate this stuff.

02:01:05.000 F.S.

02:01:06.000 Clare says, Respectfully, interacting with women has become about a risk-benefit analysis. 0.99

02:01:10.000 At a woman's whim, a man can be destroyed either via accusation or family court. 1.00

02:01:14.000 There is no risk of losing your livelihood with MGTOW, just peace. 0.58

02:01:17.000 The right is telling men to risk it. 0.99

02:01:19.000 Why?

02:01:21.000 Go to church.

02:01:22.000 Go to a community where people don't have these values and find what works.

02:01:27.000 But why?

02:01:28.000 Because it is rewarding to have friends and family.

02:01:31.000 And if you do go your own way, one day you'll be an old man sitting in a hospital bed, in a sterile room, where your heart is in pain, and the doctor will say, it's time now, I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do, is there anyone you'd like us to call?

02:01:45.000 And you will say, no.

02:01:46.000 And he'll say, well, press the button if you need us, and then you'll be sitting in that room staring at the wall as your heart slowly fades and then you cease to exist.

02:01:55.000 That sounds like a nightmare to me.

02:01:57.000 As opposed to the alternative where you're surrounded by your children and your grandchildren, they're holding your hands and they're saying they love you, you've given them everything, they'll carry on your name and legacy, and you have a smile on your face and a tear in your eye, and then you drift off to sleep and go to the great beyond.

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02:02:29.000 Yeah, just get a copy of my book, The Agenda, What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, at Amazon.com.

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02:02:36.000 It was the last thing he wrote before he reported to prison.

02:02:36.000 Forward by Steve Bannon.

02:02:39.000 Holy crap! 0.87

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02:02:44.000 Joel, always a fascinating human being.

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