Hannah and Libby discuss the latest in the latest news involving Iran and Israel, Donald Trump's comments about Kamala Harris, and more. Plus, a new low-acidity coffee that s taking over the world.
00:00:46.000There's not going to be a single day where Iran just, you know, you see the Ayatollah stand up on a pedestal and say, it's World War III, baby, let's roll.
00:00:55.000Step after step, until at one point we say, hey, maybe this regional conflict, combined with the other regional conflicts, is bringing us into, or we are at, a World War III scenario.
00:01:04.000Or it could just be this remains a regional conflict, but the conflict with Iran has been bubbling up for decades.
00:01:09.000Sooner or later, that powder keg is about to burst, so we'll talk about that.
00:01:13.000I don't know if we've yet gotten confirmation or a statement from Israel as to whether or not they actually assassinated This guy, the Hamas leader.
00:01:42.000The audience was hooting, booing, sometimes cheering.
00:01:46.000It's actually really interesting, so we'll talk about that.
00:01:48.000And as a result, Trump's being roasted for saying Kamala Harris wasn't black.
00:01:51.000She was Indian for a long time, then all of a sudden, one day, she decided to be black, and this has led to another big controversy in the news cycle.
00:01:57.000We'll talk about that and a whole bunch more.
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00:03:49.000This is the first story from the New York Times.
00:03:51.000Iran's leader orders attack on Israel for Hania killing, officials say.
00:03:56.000Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered retaliation after a humiliating security failure as Iran once again balances, showing strength against the risk of escalation.
00:04:06.000On top of that, we also have Israel striking Beirut, saying it's killed Hezbollah commander, that's Fuad Shakur, in response to a rocket attack.
00:04:15.000It looks like both of these attacks, assuming this one on Iran is actually from Israel, is in retaliation for there was a rocket strike in Israel, killed several children.
00:04:40.000Iran ordering an attack on Israel should not be like a breaking headline.
00:04:44.000It should be, Iran orders continuation of ongoing conflict with direct intervention, or something to that effect.
00:04:50.000And sooner or later we're going to get to the point where When there's active shooting between nations, and we already had the rocket fire between Israel and Iran, we're just going to say the war continues.
00:05:00.000So I suppose the big questions here are, man, Israel will be dragging the United States into a massive regional conflict that I think you got the John Bolton to the neocons salivating over and begging for.
00:05:15.000Before Donald Trump is going to be able to get in and tamper down any of this stuff, they're going to make this war happen so that he cannot.
00:05:21.000Yeah, I mean, that was kind of my theory, except in Ukraine.
00:05:26.000I figured if they thought Trump was going to win, they would try to make things so bad between Russia and Ukraine, get us so involved, and more or less drop all of that on his lap right before the election.
00:05:39.000And I guess now they have another opportunity to do that here with Israel.
00:07:30.000But you know what I'm wondering, because on my morning show I had some people super chat about this, is what's happening, the attack, assuming it is from Israel, Because Donald Trump survived.
00:07:41.000And it's an interesting correlation, but the idea being, shortly after the assassination attempt, news broke that Iran was planning an assassination of Trump, and that kind of just disappeared overnight.
00:07:50.000Like, it didn't—it blipped on the radar and then was gone.
00:07:55.000Because the narrative was, many people believe, if Trump were to have lost his life, then the media would have reported it was an Iranian-backed attack.
00:08:05.000When the FBI came out and said they found social media for the shooter that was anti-Semitic and anti-immigration, they would have argued that it was because of Trump's support of Israel.
00:08:14.000And then Nikki Haley becomes the nominee.
00:08:16.000Whether it's Biden or Kamala or Nikki Haley, they're all pro-war.
00:08:19.000Nikki Haley demands retaliation for Trump's life being taken, and that's how they get their casts as belly for war with Iran.
00:08:26.000That didn't happen, so maybe that was never gonna happen, who knows?
00:08:30.000And now we have Israel striking Iranian territory, Iran retaliating, how much longer until Joe Biden bumps into a shelf and goes, and then accidentally hits the nuclear button and declares war on Iran?
00:08:45.000Well, if Joe Biden stays in office, I mean, he doesn't have anything on his schedule.
00:08:49.000He doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.
00:08:51.000He was asked, I think they were asked in the briefing room today if he's still governing, and they were like, oh yeah, for sure.
00:09:12.000It was from like a couple weeks ago or something?
00:09:14.000And one of his senior advisors just left to go join the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:09:17.000I mean, you're probably going to start seeing this massive connection.
00:09:19.000We're going to see a lot more of that.
00:09:21.000Which is fascinating because I think part of it is that they want Kamala Harris to be front and center.
00:09:24.000And so not only do they not want Joe Biden talking publicly, because that has never helped them, but now they don't want anything to distract from her.
00:09:33.000So they're even more incentivized to keep him sort of, you know, on the couch.
00:09:36.000They see the next three months as a preview of the Kamala Harris presidency, so they're going to try to put her on the pedestal, make her appear to be the one in charge without actually saying it, and that way they can just slide right through the election.
00:09:52.000They want her to look as presidential as possible so that it just looks like a fait accompli.
00:09:57.000And you see this with the messaging, especially on social media, like the Biden account will tweet out something like, we accomplished this.
00:10:03.000Her account will immediately come in and say, yes, Joe Biden and I, me, the head of the Biden-Harris campaign or whatever.
00:10:09.000Which is why I think, yeah, I think it's really important to, if she wants to take on all his responsibilities now, including just drop in to the scheduled debates and things like that, I think it's time to really hold her accountable for Biden's record.
00:10:23.000But what's this narrative that the Kamala campaign is pushing where it's like, she comes out and she's like, I'm gonna add more border guards, but Donald Trump opposes border guards.
00:10:34.000It's like her whole point is basically like, I may be the vice president, but I'm not going to do anything about anything right now.
00:10:42.000And Trump even says this, he's like, I don't understand, like she's the vice president.
00:10:53.000And she'll talk about more recent border legislation that she'll be like, well, it was going to get passed, but then Trump directed all of his cronies to be against it.
00:10:59.000And it's like, yeah, it's because it was a bad bill.
00:11:30.000Meanwhile, the other thing, too, is she has the exact same staff as Biden, as Hannah Clare just pointed out.
00:11:35.000She's getting his, you know, White House staffers now.
00:11:38.000So if they weren't capable of getting any of this stuff done for the past three and a half years, why would they be able to get it done over the next four?
00:11:45.000And a lot of Biden's staff also are veterans of the Obama administration, right?
00:11:54.000You've got to pass the bill to see what's in it.
00:11:56.000They don't want to do it now because that would ruin things prior to the election.
00:12:00.000And they know that this bill, all it's going to do is, as I said, they're going to put a bunch of money into hiring border agents to process immigrant applications.
00:12:10.000They're not going to put any money into actually stopping the flow of people across the border.
00:12:15.000They're just going to say, well, hey, look, illegal immigration has dropped by 50%.
00:12:18.000Yeah, that's because you've got a guy filling out paperwork and just making them all legalized You're rolling out a second CP1 app to make it easier for people to cross the border.
00:12:29.000It appears that it's less, but now we have the same number of people.
00:12:42.000I think it's more likely that we'll have open involvement in Ukraine, personally, before.
00:12:48.000I think that one's going far worse, but it'll depend.
00:12:52.000It really depends on what Iran does in response to this.
00:12:55.000If they do the same thing that they did last time at a larger scale, then yeah, if they actually manage to land some hits in Tel Aviv or some other large city, I think it could go from zero to a hundred in a week.
00:14:04.000Those countries, you'd think that all of them would band together against Israel, but there's a lot of, you know, internal conflict between those countries, a lot of religious differences.
00:14:13.000You have the Shiites, you have the Sunnis.
00:14:15.000So it's not easy to say that they'll all just get together and do it.
00:14:18.000But at some point, You know, even the worst of enemies can become friends for the purposes of defeating what they think is the greater enemy.
00:14:27.000And, you know, Israel's a tiny country.
00:14:29.000I mean, it's only 40 miles across in some places.
00:14:33.000I think the big risk we're facing is Iran's retaliation could come in the form of subterfuge, cyber attacks.
00:15:03.000Like, the American citizens are going to face some kind of detriment from Iran who will try to cause problems for us.
00:15:10.000They probably are doing it right now anyway.
00:15:13.000And then we don't even know what's going on because the government doesn't want to admit its failures.
00:15:17.000Yeah, and I think most people vastly overestimate the amount of cyber security that your average industrial facility has.
00:15:24.000I worked for an insurance company for 10 years and they spent tens of millions of dollars on cyber security because they had personally identifiable information, things like that.
00:15:32.000But your average manufacturing facility, the problem is a lot of the machinery and equipment that we use, Those companies are pushing all of us to connect those things to the internet so that they can do remote troubleshooting and help solve problems.
00:15:45.000You can track manufacturing data, all that kind of thing.
00:15:48.000But, you know, the firewalls that exist for programmable logic controllers is very rudimentary.
00:15:58.000That to me that worries me more than even an attack say on the electrical grid I mean that worries me as well But I think we're spending a lot more money trying to shore up security in that area but all of the individual manufacturers making Everything we need for appliances, computers, cars, weapons, all that stuff.
00:16:20.000Most of these companies have absolutely no idea that they're even vulnerable to things like that.
00:16:25.000Do you think that American policymakers' understanding of national security has pivoted with the internet age?
00:16:31.000Do they think that the most likely attack is a physical attack from a different country, or do they realize that our online connection makes us vulnerable too?
00:16:46.000They spend a lot of money trying to keep their computers from being able to be hacked, their com systems, things like that.
00:16:53.000But again, how do you, I won't say force, because I certainly wouldn't want them to force that upon industrial manufacturers.
00:17:02.000Most people don't even really understand that that's a risk.
00:17:05.000And so it kind of falls on the companies who are building the logic controllers and the machinery and the equipment.
00:17:10.000And I think they're just far behind the times.
00:17:15.000I don't think that they perceive that as... I think if you went to your average machinery manufacturing company and said, what are you guys doing to make sure that my bullet assembly machine is unhackable?
00:17:27.000They would just look at you with a blank stare.
00:17:30.000Because it's just not really on their radar.
00:17:32.000You know, they're worried about production, you know, workflow.
00:17:37.000They're trying to make the machines run faster, have less errors in your products, things like that.
00:17:42.000But I don't really think that they have any idea that that's even a risk.
00:17:46.000Let's jump to some domestic politics with this story from the Postmillennial.
00:17:50.000The big domestic news is that Trump spoke at a black journalist conference, and the Postmillennial says he effortlessly handles hostile questions at black journalist conference in Chicago.
00:18:00.000I've only seen clips, Libby wrote this one up, but the clips that I've seen from Donald Trump, it is... It's amazing.
00:18:09.000He doesn't play games, he doesn't pander, and I think he knew... This is what the Libertarian Convention should have been.
00:18:16.000Him going up there, and when he gets a hostile question, he's hostile right back, he makes jokes, he laughs, he gives real answers, and I think people are going to respect it.
00:18:26.000I think Trump entered this, speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists, he entered this knowing that they're going to ask hostile questions and insult him, and he's going to push back because he might actually win 5, 10, 20 percent by being real and not pandering, because there are people who don't want to be pandered to.
00:18:45.000Why don't you just tell us what's going on?
00:18:46.000Yeah, so this was actually, as I said, this was sort of amazing.
00:18:49.000He got up there, he had this interview with three black journalists, including Harris Faulkner from Fox, who he's spoken to a lot, and so they had the most comfy exchange, I will say.
00:19:03.000But he also handled the more divisive questions.
00:19:06.000He was asked specifically about what are black jobs, because he was talking about immigration and saying, You know, illegal immigrants are coming in, they're taking Hispanic jobs, they're taking black jobs.
00:19:24.000And so it's like, when Trump was asked about, he referred to black journalists as animals and things like this, and they're saying, like, how dare you insult a person who happens to be black?
00:19:35.000Then, when he says black jobs, they're like, what is that supposed to mean?
00:20:56.000My message is to stop people from invading our country that are taking, frankly, a lot of problems with it.
00:21:04.000But one of the big problems, and a lot of the journalists in this room I know and I have great respect for, a lot of the journalists in this room are black.
00:21:15.000I love the laughter because Trump is literally at the National Association of Black Journalists and he says, a lot of them here are black and they start laughing.
00:21:21.000Coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs.
00:22:31.000Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire.
00:23:34.000So I don't know, is she Indian or is she black?
00:23:36.000She is always identified as a black woman.
00:23:39.000I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went It's a good political play.
00:23:49.000That's a smart statement for conservatives to bring up because what it says to a lot of the black community is that she's not been an active participant until she needed to be to earn those votes.
00:24:00.000She's an opportunist and she's an opportunist where her identity is concerned too.
00:24:04.000And it also, the fact that they get offended, the fact that like the left gets offended when you point out that someone is a DEI hire, yet they consistently push DEI as though it's this, you know, wonderful thing.
00:24:16.000It can't be racist to say that someone is a DEI hire if DEI is great.
00:24:55.000And I was like, how long am I going to go with this thing?
00:24:57.000I didn't I didn't see this one because I only saw the clips, but you guys mentioned that he like grabs the woman's water bottle and then tightens the cap or something.
00:25:03.000I don't know if he did it on accident, he thought it was his, or he did it, I really actually hope he did it on purpose.
00:25:08.000But yeah, he grabbed the water bottle that's in between the two of them, and you can see him clearly tighten it up and put it back.
00:25:15.000He doesn't even take a drink out of it.
00:25:16.000So, if he didn't do it intentionally, I'm not really sure why he did it, but... I actually think that exchange is worth...
00:25:23.000Noting, because I think it's sort of a preview of the kind of dynamic the left-wing media will report on whenever Trump eventually debates Kamala Harris.
00:25:32.000I know they're having kind of scuffles over which outlet and the date or whatever.
00:25:36.000But, you know, the thing that Kamala got lauded for when she debated Pence last time, when she was like, I'm speaking, I'm speaking, I'm not gonna let you interrupt me.
00:25:47.000And that's effectively a similar posture to what this woman is doing.
00:25:51.000She's being like, you're ridiculous and disrespectful.
00:25:53.000And you'll see, I'm confident, people say like, Trump asks ignorant question.
00:26:09.000She's not there to do journalism and ask Trump questions.
00:26:11.000No, and so I think that's, you know, he did do well, and Libby has pointed this out several times to us tonight, like, he made the audience laugh.
00:26:19.000Maybe not all of them, maybe not all the time, but it wasn't a completely hostile reception from the audience, even if many of the questions posed to him were hostile.
00:26:28.000But I think When you eventually see the Kamala Trump debate, there is going to be a need to be able to handle this like, I'm a strong woman and you're just a mean man being mean to me.
00:26:40.000You know, talking over her is fine, I don't care about it, but I know that you will get reports from either side saying— Well, if you're strong, then you don't need to worry about someone being mean to you, because what do you care?
00:27:03.000I've always been a believer that Trump should be doing events in downtown Detroit.
00:27:09.000I think he could really I think he could win Michigan easily if he did this exact same kind of thing in in Detroit, because you can see that Yeah, sure, the crowd was hostile at the very beginning, but they kind of warm up to him.
00:27:22.000And you can't not like the guy as he goes through his answers.
00:27:26.000You think to yourself, if it was me up on stage being attacked like that, yeah, I'd probably be a little bit of an a-hole as well.
00:27:32.000But he keeps it to like a reasonable measure.
00:27:34.000He answers the question reasonably well enough.
00:27:37.000And he just lets them become more and more hostile.
00:27:40.000And I think it makes them look worse as time goes on.
00:27:43.000One of the questions that she asks is, she's like, you called black journalists animals.
00:27:49.000And then, I don't think Trump gave a very strong answer, but he certainly, I think that's when he says, oh, you're asking such a hostile question.
00:27:54.000My response would be like, am I not allowed to insult someone based on, like, am I not allowed to criticize or insult people because they happen to be from a certain racial group?
00:28:02.000Like, if there's an Asian guy, a white guy, and a Hispanic guy, and I can call the white guy or the Hispanic guy an
00:28:06.000animal, if they're being disrespectful but the black guy's off-limits,
00:28:31.000And it's like, how are you going to get mad when Trump calls a person an animal, not based on race, just the person, and then when he does mention that they're, as the black community, their jobs are being taken away, now you're offended again.
00:28:46.000I wish that he would have countered with, were you this upset when Joe Biden said, if you're not voting for me, you're not black.
00:28:51.000I mean, it is okay when Joe Biden says stuff that I found really questionable, but it's not okay when Trump alludes to black people having jobs and them being possibly threatened by illegal immigration.
00:29:04.000So of course he would say that they're taking black jobs if he was in a room full of Hispanic people, he would say they're taking Hispanic jobs.
00:29:10.000If he was in a room with white people, he would say they're taking white jobs.
00:29:13.000When he was like, frankly, a lot of the journalists here are black people, and they laugh.
00:29:40.000Right, but she thinks he's going to be like, what's-her-name, Kelly Osbourne on whatever show that was, where she was like, who's going to scrub your toilet, right?
00:29:48.000They're expecting something from Trump that isn't there, and a part of it is because they came in primed to be hysterical.
00:29:53.000And I think there are tons of journalists who do this, right and left.
00:29:57.000know how they want it to play out. And I go back to, I can't remember the name of the
00:30:01.000time I had, but the girl who ran the CNN town hall, where Trump came out and was like on
00:30:06.000stage at one point, he like pulled out a paper of the tweets that weren't allowed to go out
00:30:10.000at one point. Like, he did really well. And she was not prepared for it, because she came
00:30:14.000in really aggressively. And CNN ended up ending that program early because of how well he was
00:30:20.000doing, because their journalists came in with a bias and couldn't couldn't adapt to the
00:30:25.000Yeah, I think they still haven't learned how to deal with Trump.
00:30:28.000The more aggressive you get, the better off he looks, I think.
00:30:33.000I think he does worse in debates and interviews where people are nicer to him, and he doesn't really have anything to go off of.
00:30:42.000He's the master at taking their energy and redirecting it into his own responses and getting enough of a laugh out of people that...
00:30:52.000Again, you might not like him, but you find something in common with him in some way because you put yourself in that situation and you think, how would I react if I was the same?
00:31:18.000You have told four Congresswoman of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from.
00:31:24.000You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys.
00:31:29.000You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist.
00:31:36.000You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort.
00:31:39.000So my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?
00:31:50.000Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so, in such a horrible manner, first question.
00:31:58.000You don't even say, hello, how are you?
00:32:02.000Because I think they're a fake news network.
00:32:09.000I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
00:32:14.000I love the black population of this country.
00:32:16.000I've done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for I think it's a very rude introduction.
00:32:34.000I've done so much and you know when I say this, historically black colleges and universities
00:32:41.000were out of money, they were stone cold broke and I saved them and I gave them long term
00:32:47.000financing and nobody else was doing it.
00:32:49.000I think it's a very rude introduction.
00:32:52.000I don't know exactly why you would do something like that.
00:34:43.000A journalist would ask the question, what she did was she goes, you did this thing, this thing, this thing, this thing, this thing, this thing, this thing, you're bad.
00:36:43.000Yeah, I think Kamala Harris was a win for the Biden administration because she was sort of a biracial woman who therefore they could trot out at any occasion, right?
00:36:52.000Like when they need someone to be the spokesperson for diversity, they have Kamala Harris.
00:36:56.000You know, that's cool if that's what you think your administration needs.
00:37:00.000I think it's kind of gross, but it's not clear that they hired her for merit.
00:37:05.000They hired her because of what she looks like.
00:37:08.000Could it perhaps be weird that they do that?
00:37:10.000The other thing too, speaking of the double standards, is you had Pete Buttigieg recently speaking to the New York Times on one of their podcasts, what is it, The Daily?
00:37:18.000And he was asked outright, and he's been a huge Kamala surrogate at this point, and he was asked if he thought Kamala Harris should accept the invitation from Fox to debate on September 17th, which has been the only invitation held out to Kamala Harris, as opposed to her dropping in to try and fill Biden's shoes.
00:37:38.000And Pete Buttigieg said that he did not think she should debate on Fox because he thought they were too biased.
00:37:46.000But he does apparently think that Trump should debate not Joe Biden in an ABC debate on September 10th, even though Kamala Harris wasn't invited to that debate.
00:37:55.000So who's going to be at that September 10th debate?
00:38:01.000And you really just have Kamala Harris's campaign demanding that Trump show up on terms that he agreed to to debate Joe Biden, even though he hasn't agreed to those terms for her.
00:38:16.000And I wonder why Trump doesn't debate Kamala Harris.
00:38:18.000He has said that he would, but this is the thing about the Fox invitation, which came out a couple days ago.
00:38:23.000You know, that's that network saying, like, now that the contract seems to be void because Biden is no longer in the race, we will host a debate between Kamala Harris and Trump.
00:38:34.000And, you know, Trump had said, I'm happy to debate her.
00:38:37.000But I actually don't think it's that unreasonable for him to say, like, but as you have now suddenly dropped in a new candidate, that does not mean we have to stick to this agreement with ABC News.
00:38:46.000And especially because I think ABC News has been kind of sketchy this summer.
00:38:51.000And there is definitely this double standard where everyone's just kind of assuming that because the Democrats have, you know, changed their presumptive nominee, that means that presumptive nominee is entitled to everything that Joe Biden had, you know, earned as president and as the candidate.
00:39:07.000And I don't see why the Trump campaign should agree to Yeah, especially now since it's Kamala and not, you could argue that because Biden is the incumbent that maybe he gets to pick the rules.
00:39:20.000I don't agree with that particularly, but you could make the argument.
00:39:23.000But in this case, you have Two people who are currently not president, both vying for the same office.
00:39:30.000So, for sure, if I was him, I would absolutely try to renegotiate that and say, OK, well, maybe we'll do this one on ABC, but we're going to do one on Fox then, so that at least we have two.
00:39:40.000Or we'll pick somebody neutral in the middle.
00:39:44.000We've allowed Democrats to run the rules of these debates.
00:39:47.000I don't exactly know how that happened.
00:39:49.000But it just seems like it's been that way, and Trump has sort of had to just take what he can get, in a sense?
00:39:53.000Well, Trump's team, back when they were debating the debates before the first one, had said, like, we're happy to do three, because these aren't being run by the official, like, presidential debate body.
00:40:02.000They're run by these, like, agreements between the campaigns and the networks, and typically there are three every year.
00:40:09.000So they had scheduled this one in May, and then they were like, we're gonna do it again in September, and then There was Trump's team had said, well, we'll do a third and Biden's team had said no.
00:40:21.000So it's this it's this weird thing where like the Biden campaign was very different than Harris's campaign because their candidate had struggles that they say Kamala doesn't have.
00:41:33.000But, you know, he's definitely posturing like it's going to be him online.
00:41:37.000I think they're all kind of really hoping.
00:41:38.000Well, there was a rumor that the DNC was trying to get a bunch of Wall Street firms to donate ahead of the announcement for VP because They're not allowed to donate if there's a sitting governor on the ticket or something like that.
00:41:50.000Can we just point out real quick, I want to stress this, that Donald Trump destroyed Joe Biden in that debate so horribly that Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
00:42:03.000His performance was so atrocious against Donald Trump that the Democrats panicked and removed him from the race.
00:42:12.000Yeah, which should not be a thing you're allowed to do.
00:42:15.000You shouldn't just be like, oh, this candidate that we picked that we've been running this whole time, it turns out that he's not great against the other guy, so let's switch it up real quick and just pretend we never did.
00:42:26.000Well, we were saying before, I don't think Harris should just get to act like she inherits everything I got to.
00:42:32.000And I think that should apply to the voters, right?
00:42:34.000She made a big show, this was all the reporting I heard, you know, that Sunday that Biden dropped out and endorsed her, that she was calling all these organizations, these union workers, all of these people, delegates, saying, I'm going to earn your vote.
00:42:46.000And apparently she had earned their vote by 9 a.m.
00:42:56.000I think there must be some voters who feel a certain level of whiplash and who also looked at her being like, I didn't support you in 2020.
00:43:10.000But once that honeymoon like falls apart, you think it'll last?
00:43:12.000Yeah, but the honeymoon doesn't have to be very long, right?
00:43:15.000I mean, it's only a few months to the election.
00:43:16.000I mean, for her it just has to get... Well, and for her it just has to be until she gets on the ticket because then they don't have any other choices.
00:43:26.000I have some friends who are pretty far on the left, and none of them really like her.
00:43:33.000She's a former prosecutor, put all these people in jail for, you know, drug crimes and things that they don't really believe in, and they're not really hot on her.
00:45:08.000But they've been allowed to fight for a long time.
00:45:10.000And that's why the betting odds favor the male.
00:45:12.000If there's any sport you could argue that it's the least, or how do I put Like the most obvious you don't do it.
00:45:19.000I've been in combat sports my entire life.
00:45:22.000I started wrestling when I was 12, been doing jiu-jitsu for 15 years.
00:45:25.000I had women on my wrestling team in middle school, high school.
00:45:28.000I train with women every day at my jiu-jitsu academy.
00:45:34.000If you spend 15 minutes in any combat sport and you see the differences, I feel like it would change almost anybody's mind except for the most radical people who are just a total NPC out to lunch downloading the program every night.
00:46:30.000Vance are claiming to be champions for hard-working Nevadans from a private jet.
00:46:34.000They're not only hypocrites, they're just plain weird.
00:46:37.000And the reason why they step in is because we all know what happened with Donald Trump.
00:46:40.000When Donald Trump liked to do that thing where he would mock people by bouncing his arm on his chest, and then all of a sudden a journalist popped up who had a disability with his arm, and the media ran the narrative that Donald Trump was intentionally mocking a disabled journalist.
00:46:53.000Sam Brown has responded, saying, Yes, you can call my face weird.
00:46:57.000It won't be the first or last time I've heard it, but my message is not to you.
00:47:01.000My message is to anyone else who has been put down or called weird
00:47:04.000because of their experiences or who they are.
00:47:06.000I say to you, do not allow others to define you.
00:47:11.000They might look a little different, but it gives me an opportunity to encourage others.
00:47:14.000I encourage every one of you to lean into the things that make you unique and that others may call weird and realize that your experience, whether it's suffering or something else, gives you an opportunity to connect with others and give them hope.
00:47:40.000They're supposed to be the sensitive ones, right?
00:47:41.000They're claiming to be, but this is the problem with a open hatch and randomly fire out the insult of weird to any and everyone, and then not thinking about you insulting a guy.
00:47:54.000And I say this with all due respect to Captain Sam Brown, who's pointing out he has been called weird before.
00:48:06.000Vance's a sinner, he's got a successful book and a movie.
00:48:09.000Sam Brown is an injured veteran who has been called weird because of the injuries he's suffered, and they are not paying attention to what they're doing when they just blanket everybody as weird, and now they've stepped in it.
00:48:21.000So this only gets pushed if Republicans decide this is an attack.
00:48:27.000They should say, guys, chill out on the weird stuff, because you're not paying attention to who you're insulting.
00:48:32.000Sam Brown has said he's been called weird before because of his face, because of the injuries he's suffered serving this country, and now Democrats are not even thinking about what they're calling this guy.
00:48:41.000I think if the Trump campaign isn't already churning out a ton of merchandise with weird and some reference to that, they're crazy.
00:48:51.000I think this is probably one of the bigger political mistakes that the left could make.
00:49:46.000You know, but these suit-wearing conservative types, look, you go to any one of these conservative events, you go to these youth conservative college events, and it's just like, dude, it is like a bunch of 18-year-olds wearing suits.
00:50:10.000I mean, maybe not at those kinds of events, you know, sort of the core Republicans, the ones that are unfortunately still in charge of the party and the way things go.
00:51:29.000He tries to push it away, but he can't because he needs their votes.
00:51:32.000So they are trying to label... This is what they do with defund the police.
00:51:36.000The far left calls for defund the police, and then establishment Democrats try getting on board with it, the New York Times tries getting on board with it, they realize it's unpopular, and then they say, the right wants to defund the police!
00:51:46.000When the right said stuff like, de-weaponize the FBI.
00:51:49.000They try to push it off onto the right.
00:51:51.000I say be weird, fine, but the main play right now is, what every Republican should be saying is, apologize to Sam Brown, call Trump weird, call J.D.
00:52:00.000Vance weird, call me weird, all you like.
00:52:14.000All that matters is that when there is a rally at a small, suburban town, and there's a bunch of undecideds, they can say, Call me weird, that's fine, but please apologize to Sam Brown.
00:52:53.000When the Covington thing happens with the Native American, all of a sudden, every conservative is like, oh, well, jeez, that was really bad what the kid did.
00:53:00.000Very few people said, no, I'm going to challenge and question this narrative.
00:53:04.000So now we have a situation where The Democrats want to play this weird angle and insult all the conservatives as weird, and then they call an injured veteran weird, and he happens to get called weird because of his face?
00:53:20.000Part of the thing, though, where Republicans will, you know, say, oh, the Covington kid, that was a problem or whatever, and they'll come out and do that, is because it's only in those moments that Republicans get accepted by the left and get airtime on these legacy networks.
00:53:56.000And they have to get over that or they're going to keep losing.
00:53:59.000And that's sort of what's interesting, too.
00:54:01.000If I can, like this Pete Buttigieg interview, another thing that he was saying was that if Kamala wins the presidency, then you eliminate MAGA and that you're back to a, you know, more normal Republican Party.
00:54:13.000Because what the Democrats really fear is the MAGA movement.
00:54:16.000They're worried, and that's why they're going so hard against J.D.
00:55:20.000No, but they're going to throw a lot of stuff at the wall because Democrats have typically
00:55:25.000always controlled messaging and language.
00:55:27.000And they believe that that's their ticket back to the White House because I think, to your point, they are afraid of the MAGA movement and a lot of the MAGA movement introduced a new narrative that they couldn't combat.
00:55:38.000And so they have to make all of these very personal attacks.
00:57:12.000Right, and I feel like conservatives will fail if they give too much in to participating in whatever rhetoric development is happening right now with the media, right?
00:57:20.000Like, trying to talk to them about their buzzwords or whatever weird insult they've come up with during this time.
00:57:28.000Attack Kamala Harris on things that are relevant, like her time as a prosecutor, her failure to secure national security, her lack of international diplomacy experience.
00:57:36.000Like, you could have a substantive conversation that they will not be able to combat with.
00:58:53.000Why isn't the response, if I say Kamala Harris is a diversity hire, should the Democrats then turn to all their voters and say, look at that, look how good we've done with diversity hiring?
00:59:04.000We did so amazing that the president is a diversity hire.
00:59:09.000It did not get there on their own merits.
00:59:11.000We say all the time that there's... That is a black woman, so yay.
00:59:14.000Yeah, we say all the time there's not enough diversity, and then you have this Top-tier diversity selection, and yet you're unhappy about it.
00:59:24.000They want diversity hires, but they know that conservatives don't like diversity hires, so they're mad that the literal context of diversity hire is pejorative to conservatives.
01:00:45.000Cernovich tweeted quote To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally, and this is not kidding, the core strengths of America.
01:00:53.000That's why I'm proud to have the most diverse administration in history, and it starts at the top with the vice president.
01:01:58.000I don't understand why we have this constant assumption from conservatives that Democrats are just making mistakes all the time, and we have to be nice to them for being dumb.
01:02:09.000Like, sure, by all means, call them dumb.
01:02:12.000But, like, they're the ones who created the DEI initiatives, and now they're mad about it.
01:02:16.000I'm not going to get—congratulations, this is what you wanted.
01:02:18.000Right, to hold them accountable for it.
01:02:23.000Well, it would have been interesting if Biden had come out and said, you know, for my VP, I really want one of the nation's best prosecutors, and I'm going to only pick someone who has an—you know, who is a former attorney general, who's had really, you know, a lot of experience, and then, you know, just happened to be Kamala Harris.
01:02:37.000But it was always about Who she was in terms of the boxes she would check on an application form in terms of her race, her gender.
01:02:46.000You know, I honestly wish she had pushed back about it more, but instead she also was like, yes, I am here.
01:02:51.000I'm the first female whatever vice president.
01:02:55.000To me, it's very different than the conversations that the conservative movement had.
01:03:01.000Oh yeah, they avoid it like the plague, you know.
01:03:03.000But there was that whole push for a while.
01:03:04.000They were like, no, Trump has to pick a female vice president, which I thought was crazy.
01:03:11.000But they were saying, well, you know, because they have this female, so we have to do it too.
01:03:15.000Like, this is what makes me crazy, which is like, we all know that it should be about merit.
01:03:20.000It should be about how successful this person is.
01:03:22.000And instead, Somehow the RNC will start being like, well, but we should also play the identity game because they're doing it and that would make them happy.
01:04:44.000Yeah, what they used to do is they'd go to rallies and they'd put on a fake accent because you couldn't track it.
01:04:49.000You know, before the internet, you'd show up, a newspaper would write about what you said, nobody would hear it, but all the people there would hear you speak like them.
01:05:50.000To be fair, that's in line with the Biden way of Sure.
01:05:54.000But it's really a little bit much that the American people are not going to have a chance to vet this woman before she expects everyone to vote for her and before she's even really nominated.
01:06:19.000They like, you know, they're the very collectivist in nature.
01:06:21.000So they like the idea that there's no one person in charge, that there's sort of a board of directors making these decisions behind the scene.
01:06:28.000That's why they were okay with putting Biden up in the first place, because they really knew he wasn't in charge.
01:06:33.000And so I don't think that that will bother them at all.
01:06:35.000If she doesn't take any press questions, if she doesn't do any interviews, if she doesn't do any debates, I think they're just fine with that because I think what they really want is the team of people behind her to be the ones actually making the decisions.
01:06:50.000Whereas people on the right, they tend to like the idea of having an executive in charge.
01:06:55.000You could say there's advantages and disadvantages to both, but we're okay.
01:06:59.000We want somebody to be making the decisions, right?
01:07:02.000It's more like running a SEAL team or something.
01:07:10.000They see anybody who has the ability to make a call as a dictator or some kind of authoritarian.
01:07:16.000So I think they're going to try to control her as much as they can.
01:07:19.000And I think she's totally fine with that.
01:07:22.000I think she's going to put on a big tough persona out in public, but they're going to keep her away from any tough press questions.
01:07:29.000My impression is that she's more dependent on the advisors and people who are kind of running her campaign in a way that Biden had more tension.
01:07:37.000And I mean that because, you know, Biden was a successful politician.
01:07:41.000I'm not saying he was a good guy, but he was, you know, a seasoned member of the federal government.
01:07:46.000And he had won reelection on several different levels, you know, at various points.
01:07:51.000So he You know, kind of knew how to campaign in a way that I don't know that Kamala has the same comparable experience.
01:07:56.000But Biden, probably because of some age related stuff, or maybe just some sort of internal tension, seemed to be at odds at times with his advisors and his campaign, both in the White House and on the campaign trail.
01:08:07.000Uh, Kamala, maybe because she doesn't have the experience that he had, or maybe because she is not in the same kind of mental space that he is, or maybe just because her campaign came together, what, like, last week, 10 days ago, 12 days ago?
01:08:23.000It seems like she is really relying on whoever is being like, OK, this is what we're doing.
01:08:29.000It doesn't seem like she has her own personality.
01:08:32.000It never seemed that way to me when she was running in 2020.
01:08:35.000And especially to Libby's point, you know, Donald Trump is who he is no matter what room he's in, no matter how big the crowd is, no matter the location or venue.
01:08:44.000There is a Donald Trump, and you know kind of what you're getting.
01:08:48.000Well, she doesn't really have her personality.
01:10:44.000Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro challenged ex-CEO Elon Musk to a fight on Monday, which Musk has now accepted via his platform.
01:10:51.000In a national television broadcast, Maduro declared, Elon Musk, you are desperate, you went off the rails, and demanded Musk control himself or you will fail just like the right-wing-led all-American politicians do.
01:11:04.000He continued, Whoever messes with me dries up.
01:11:06.000Whoever messes with Venezuela dries up.
01:11:08.000Elon Musk, you want to fight? Let's have it.
01:11:10.000Elon Musk, I'm ready. I'm not afraid of you.
01:11:19.000In response, the outburst follows a post from Musk on AXA that accused Maduro of major election fraud after Maduro and his rival claimed victory in the Venezuelan election.
01:11:28.000Venezuelans chose to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro.
01:11:32.000The data announced a crushing victory of the opposition, and the world is waiting for you to recognize the defeat after years of socialism, misery, decadence, and death, Musk wrote.
01:11:42.000In response to the New York Post article that detailed the exchange and Maduro's subsequent challenge to a fight, Musk simply responded, I accept.
01:12:44.000A fight on national TV is the way we do it.
01:12:46.000Because let me tell you, see, back in the day, people didn't understand this.
01:12:48.000I like that you just say that's how we do it.
01:12:49.000Well, because the duels weren't actually what people think they are.
01:12:53.000A lot of people think that duels were like two guys deciding that someone's gonna die, and that's not necessarily true.
01:12:57.000So, I was reading about this with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and I think it's been a while since I read about this, but I'm pretty sure Burr was like fervently, I'll kill you!
01:13:06.000And Hamilton was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it.
01:13:08.000So when the challenge was made, typically duels were, your honor was challenged, you were insulted, and so you would stand in a duel to prove that you were honorable and you were dignified.
01:13:22.000However, when they would actually draw their pistols, they would purposefully aim away and fire into a tree or into the ground.
01:13:29.000So Alexander Hamilton is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, draws his pistol and fires it away, and Burgos is like, literally wanted them.
01:13:37.000So duels were never actually about, I'm sure there were a lot of duels back in the day, like if you go 100,000 years, but like in our American history.
01:13:45.000The duel was just to prove that you would stand by your words in the face of the most extreme circumstance.
01:13:52.000So I say, you know, like a boxing match sanctioned with a ref, Elon Musk, Nicholas Maduro, I would prefer we have that over war.
01:14:01.000If there is a war to be had, Israel and Iran, here's what we do, you choose a champion, Israel chooses a champion, and we put them in a gladiator's ring, and then this determines the outcome of the conflict, I guess.
01:14:12.000That's like the first scene in the movie Troy, right?
01:16:24.000This is the current state of geopolitics.
01:16:27.000We have Iran ordering a retaliation strike on Israel, which we're freaked out about, and then you have Elon and Maduro having a flame war.
01:16:34.000You know what's actually interesting is I remember, this is like the first time, this is I think 2014, it was Operation Protective Edge, Israel and Hamas.
01:16:46.000The al-Qassam brigades were launching missiles into Israel.
01:16:51.000And Israel was, of course, you know, Iron Dome, and there was some retaliation.
01:16:55.000And then the Al-Qassam Brigades on Twitter, at the time it was Twitter, were tweeting like, you know, by the glory of Allah, we will destroy you and wipe you from the map.
01:17:02.000And then the IDF responded to them being like, you can try, but you'll never succeed.
01:17:06.000And then they went back and forth several times.
01:17:09.000And then I'm sitting in this room with a bunch of journalists, and someone's just like, guys, I think this is the first actual flame war in a war.
01:17:29.000So, you had, I think this may have been Gaza.
01:17:34.000The Hamas put GoPros on their guns, and Israel put GoPros on their APCs, and then when the footage got uploaded, people compiled it, and you could actually see both sides.
01:17:44.000Yeah, and now that's just what you do.
01:17:47.000I watch updates on the war in Ukraine twice a day, and that's all it is, is FPV videos of people getting drone bombed.
01:18:56.000He reaches for it, but then the lady is clearly asking a question and he's like, instead of taking a drink, I'm going to put a water bottle, like put this down.
01:19:01.000Um, I like the idea that he just tightened it, uh, to see if she'd be able to open it later better.
01:19:06.000But I don't actually think that's what this is.
01:19:10.000Yeah, he should bring a mayonnaise jar to the debate and just hand it to Kamala and say, all right, you're gonna- Just answer, opens pickle jar.
01:19:16.000She's answering, you just hear the click.
01:19:19.000Yeah, some people say it looks like he's loosening the water bottle, but people keep messaging being like, pull the video, pull the video up.
01:19:31.000I much preferred the story that I was told, that he grabbed it and tightened it as hard as he could so she couldn't get it and then put it back, but that is- I'm gonna go with that.
01:19:51.000Anyway, I guess where no one really expects Elon Musk to fight Maduro, we're just wasting time by talking about two people who are insulting each other on the internet, which is all day every day.
01:20:03.000It's a real serious situation going on in Venezuela, too.
01:20:07.000It's sort of washing over the top of all that.
01:20:49.000He says, I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
01:20:53.000Many, including a former version of myself, get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information.
01:21:04.000My journey has been gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election.
01:21:09.000It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding it from there.
01:21:14.000I'll pause real quick before I read more.
01:21:16.000David Marcus, CEO and co-founder of Lightspark, opened payments on Lightning, ran payments and crypto at Messenger and Meta, led PayPal, built three startups.
01:21:33.000He says in 2017 a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise a hundred million dollars from Silicon Valley founders and executives.
01:21:39.000The aim was to use these funds and know how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton's inadequate outdated 2016 campaign.
01:21:48.000We met with DNC leadership who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund.
01:21:52.000A single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech in the wake of one of the most shocking failures they didn't want the help.
01:22:00.000The next series of realizations began in 2019 when I was at META.
01:22:03.000Right after we announced the Libra White Paper, I testified before the Senate and the House, and subsequently spent significant time in D.C.
01:22:09.000engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members.
01:22:11.000At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the people.
01:22:14.000However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control.
01:22:23.000This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up.
01:22:27.000I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project's goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network.
01:22:35.000I found myself remarkably aligned with them.
01:22:38.000I'm going to skip over, I don't want to read his entire, you know, it looks like maybe a thousand words.
01:22:43.000He says, some claim that re-electing President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees.
01:22:46.000However, the alternative, having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government, coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad, might present a more significant threat.
01:22:57.000Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.
01:23:02.000In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.
01:23:10.000Silicon Valley, my friends, And we've seen with Elon Musk is going mega.
01:23:17.000I think it's really interesting what he says, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, the eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs and rebuilding from there.
01:23:25.000Because I think that a lot of times what happens is people are not open-minded about what they believe.
01:23:31.000And it's so important to always know what you believe and why you believe it and to interrogate the foundations of your beliefs so that you know at all times what it is that you think and why you think it.
01:23:42.000And that way you are ruling your ideas as opposed to being ruled by them.
01:23:47.000Yeah, I think people often are critical of how they came to the conclusions and this like any political or religious or whatever belief they sort of just roll with it or they take bad information and then build their lives around it without really thinking about why.
01:24:03.000And, you know, Silicon Valley is so fascinating because I think For whatever reason, maybe just because it's in California, so many people just kind of assumed it was left.
01:24:14.000It had to be, you know, Democratic stronghold when, you know, really it's a center for entrepreneurial spirit and energy.
01:24:21.000They probably have a lot of contact with the federal government that's very unpleasant and, you know, a lot of our trade policies, a lot of our You know, national security issues really impacted that industry in particularly.
01:24:33.000And so it's interesting to have someone come out and say, like, I was sort of default this way and I had to re-evaluate why.
01:24:41.000And I think probably a lot of people do that all the time in their lives, but definitely during the last 10 years.
01:25:13.000And so basically, these people just start pouring in and lining up behind Trump for that reason.
01:25:18.000Yeah, and I think that's something that the right has suffered from is a lack of tech.
01:25:24.000You know, they don't really have a lot of exposure, and maybe that's another reason that they see, well, this is an opportunity for us to actually, you know, he's talking in there about building this CRM tech platform for Hillary's campaign and how it was outdated.
01:25:38.000I think the Republicans suffer from that much more, and so as a business opportunity, There's probably more money to be made from them approaching the right and saying, look, you guys are way out of date.
01:25:51.000You need us as much as maybe we think we need you to pass the right kind of policy so we can make some money on this by reinventing you a new platform to be able to reach your potential voters.
01:26:04.000And at the same time, they see the political winds shifting.
01:26:09.000So maybe it's going to work out better for them to switch.
01:26:13.000I'm not sure that that'll happen on the grander scale.
01:27:33.000I think they always floated the idea of having it.
01:27:35.000It was something they thought about, but they, you know, I don't think the DNC is as organized and strategic as, they're not moving as one unit right now.
01:27:42.000And I think there's a lot of internal fighting.
01:29:20.000goes to the Democrats and says, I want to reel in these corporations that are putting environmental toxins in our food and our medicines, etc., they're going to say, screw off.
01:29:44.000The paths to victory for Trump, even in 2020, because this is what I said, if Trump appointed Tulsi Gabbard to national security advisor in the last year of his term, and then asked Andrew Yang to be an economic advisor, he would have gotten such tremendous support from independents, post-liberals, and even many Democrats.
01:30:24.000Do you think that's what he'll do this time?
01:30:25.000Do you think he'll make more aggressive cabinet picks?
01:30:31.000Yes, more aggressive, but far from what we hope.
01:30:34.000You know, look, you've got a lot of right-leaning libertarian types who are hoping he's going to go and schedule a left, just fire all these people, and he'll fire some.
01:31:21.000Illegal immigration was pretty low as well.
01:31:24.000Yeah, there were a lot of encounters, but the scary thing is, when you see, when you check the amount of encounters from the border, that's because we're trying to stop them.
01:33:19.000Part of the problem with veteran mental health is a lot of them just want to get out of the house and be around other people and do something that gets their mind off what's going on.
01:33:30.000We've sponsored a group in Michigan for a little while that was doing some shooting events for the same reason.
01:33:38.000It's something that they're already interested in, but it's getting them out, getting them around other men.
01:33:43.000People to talk to, you know, indirectly about their problems rather than trying to sit down in front of some counselor.
01:33:49.000And yeah, anything that they could do to be more active is a great idea.
01:33:55.000Check out snakefarmco.com because we're good friends with these guys and it's veteran oriented.
01:34:02.000I think the website's mostly clothing, but I wonder if they have their skateboards up because it's a skateboard company too.
01:34:07.000Sometimes I think it's hard for people to find all these resources.
01:34:09.000Like, there are a lot of people doing really great, specific work that have a lot of options, but... Hard to find.
01:34:15.000Yeah, and I think for generally, you know, my observational anecdotal experience has just been that transitioning out of the military is not as easy.
01:34:22.000As anyone thinks about it, you know, I think it's actually very difficult.
01:34:26.000And for a lot of people, especially who are, you know, been for a while, who have had these specific careers, like translating your experience to the outside world is complicated.
01:34:35.000So part of it is just, I wish there were, there's like an encyclopedia or a go-to place where it could be like, I'm a veteran, I'm looking for this kind of support, or I have these kinds of interests, or I need, you know, whatever.
01:34:46.000Because so often it's just, you know, you could Google search forever, but you're not connected to what you need.
01:34:52.000All right, Marodney says, can I get a shout-out for my birthday tomorrow?
01:34:55.000Currently celebrating that and my three-month sobriety by having a couple glasses of whiskey.
01:35:00.000Back to sobriety tomorrow and the gym next week.
01:35:12.000If someone is someone who's not an alcoholic and they don't drink all the time, but they decided just to stop drinking, then it's no big deal if you're like, well, I haven't had a drink in three months, but I'll have some tonight.
01:35:56.000Because, a good example, Politico reported that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton, and Politico reported a few years later that it was actually Russian disinformation that Ukraine interfered in the election to help Hillary Clinton.
01:36:10.000So, Politico is Russian disinformation?
01:36:13.000That's not to say that showing someone this story makes them support Trump.
01:36:16.000It shows them that what they think is true is false.
01:36:19.000Yeah, I had a conversation with a woman at the yoga studio I go to.
01:36:25.000Definitely on the left, I would say she would probably describe herself as a communist, actually.
01:36:30.000And we were just chatting outside and we started talking about Kyle Rittenhouse.
01:36:35.000And it was just crazy to me how, I mean, we had a good conversation about it.
01:36:41.000We're good friends, but, you know, the perception.
01:36:46.000Oh, well, he shot a bunch of black people.
01:37:10.000The issue, however, is that when they're talking about hypersonics, they're talking about missiles that stay closer to the ground, which gives much less time for radar to detect.
01:37:20.000The way you can think about it is, here's the curvature of the Earth, and if the radar is pointing up here, and you fire an ICBM, oh, we can see you, baby.
01:37:28.000But if you've got a hypersonic close to the ground, it's gonna get real close to you before you notice it's there, and then, how do you defend?
01:37:38.000I think there's a lot of debate whether it's true, you know, hypersonic is such a new technology that every country is claiming they've got hypersonic missiles.
01:37:46.000But you know, even Russia, some of the missiles that they say are hypersonic, they are to some degree at certain points of the trajectory, but not all the way.
01:37:54.000So I I would be shocked to see Iran investing that much money into hypersonic missiles when they could be producing tens of thousands of low-cost drones that fly, you know, 400 miles an hour.
01:38:05.000But it's, you know, volume and saturation.
01:38:57.000Watch Military Summary Channel on YouTube and you'll see as much of that as you'll ever need to.
01:39:02.000You'll get some interesting updates on Ukraine, maybe from a pro-Russian perspective, but that's sort of counter to what you see in the U.S.
01:39:10.000news media that's obviously very pro-Ukraine and it'll change your mind about what you think about modern warfare for sure.
01:39:17.000All right, Ben Hickson says, Tim, I saw your Civil War face-off quiz.
01:39:20.000The score at the end left me speechless, just like the best-selling book by Michael Knowles.
01:39:57.000It actually caught me off guard, and I froze for a second, and I was like, Oh yeah, yeah, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.
01:40:02.000And I was like, I did not expect that question.
01:40:04.000I'm like, listening to him, I'm wondering if the first question is going to be, what was the nickname of the man who led the march to the sea?
01:40:14.000And then I'm waiting for some, and then it's an Avengers question.
01:40:17.000And then he had a couple other, they had a couple other silly ones, but it was ultimately pretty good.
01:40:21.000However, I must stress, as many people pointed out, there was a couple instances where casualty and deaths were confused.
01:40:29.000And I believe he asked what was the deadliest battle, and it was Gettysburg and he said 50,000 dead.
01:40:33.000I think that's what the comment said, and it was 8,000 dead and 50,000 casualties.
01:40:39.000And then I said that I thought it was like 1.8 million dead, but I mixed up casualties in my answer because it was 1.6 something million casualties in the Civil War, which is captured, wounded, or dead.
01:40:52.000But other than that, it was great fun.
01:40:55.000And then at the end, we did double or nothing, and I won and Michael lost, so.
01:41:03.000Yeah, it was funny, because the last question was in their hit single, Together Again, by Smokey Mike and the God King, what was the original runtime?
01:41:11.000And I knew the answer was around five minutes, and then Michael's like, that's not fair, he worked on the cover song, so he's like, he knows the runtime.
01:41:59.000Because, uh, the example I like to give is, in high school there are two people.
01:42:04.000One guy farts, and then looks around and is embarrassed, and then people point him out and say, ah, look, he farted, and they start laughing, no I didn't, shut up, I didn't fart.
01:42:12.000The other guy leans back and goes, hey guys, check this out.
01:42:15.000And then intentionally farts and laughs about it.
01:44:08.000They had sent a reporter to talk to black men, you know, after she had been announced as the presumptive heir apparent to the Biden campaign, I guess.
01:44:15.000And, you know, it was clear the interviewer was caught off guard because he asked them, he's like, So, you know, now that Biden is out, will you support Kamala Harris?
01:44:32.000I think there is sort of an expectation that everybody fall in line with this campaign, but I don't think she's as appealing as they clearly are hoping she will suddenly become.
01:46:27.000I mean in college I honestly, there were times where I was up late studying and peanut M&M's were like the perfect combination of sugar and protein.
01:49:51.000John Maxwell says, what would you all order from Chili's?
01:49:55.000The only thing I'd ever order from Chili's, when I worked for O'Hare Airport, we had a Chili's to go right above where we worked, and I just ordered french fries.
01:50:03.000I haven't been to a Chili's in so long.
01:50:06.000Did they have the, they used to have, I think they had what they called tostada nachos.
01:50:11.000It was like basically big nachos, like, you know, only like maybe 10 of them, but they were piled up.
01:50:15.000I think that's probably the only thing I can name at a Chili's.
01:50:19.000I can't think of what I'd order at a Chili's, but, you know, I know from Applebee's, like, I've gotten their burgers and stuff, and it's totally fine.
01:52:09.000Heat fried, covered in oil and bread and salt.
01:52:12.000Not if you just cook all your I mean, I even make like, I even make my own junk food.
01:52:17.000You know, like I'll make pizza or like I'll make birria tacos or I make different like, because after we left New York and there's not a lot of takeout options.
01:52:27.000So I started learning how to make a lot of takeout options.
01:52:57.000And so if something happens, send an email to Casperoo to make sure it's still functioning.
01:53:04.000The challenge is it's hard to track who, like, hard to track.
01:53:08.000Although we, like, if you bought together again, you should have a permanent discount.
01:53:14.000Only if, I think, you had to, I think what it was is you had to use the subscribe.
01:53:23.000The discount was good for like a certain amount of time, but if you subscribed to a coffee with the discount, the discount applied to your subscription forever.
01:53:30.000And what was supposed to happen is if you ended the subscription, but then restarted it later, the discount would still apply.
01:53:38.000But, if you bought product with the discount, then came back three months later, it wouldn't work.
01:53:44.000So it was like... Yeah, you had to subscribe.
01:54:40.000And actually the reality was like, he didn't need to do that at all.
01:54:44.000He was polling way ahead and, you know, it only served to benefit them.
01:54:49.000I think it's similar with the debates right now.
01:54:51.000Acknowledging Kamala before she is officially, like, at least people cast ballots for Biden, right?
01:54:58.000No one's cast a ballot in favor of Harris being the presidential candidate for the Democrats.
01:55:03.000Agreeing to a debate right now, especially if they're going to, you know, roll call nominate her next week, it only serves to make her seem like a legitimate challenger, which they're desperately trying to make her legitimate as fast as possible.
01:55:14.000Alsory says, actually Kamala isn't even part Jamaican.
01:55:17.000Her mother is Indian, and her father stated he's Irish and Indian that came from Jamaica.
01:55:21.000Not indigenous Jamaican, he just lived his life in a British colony.
01:55:51.000So let's see what they think when they find out that their champion, who they've always loved and supported and who was their favorite person ever, and they all voted for... I'm kidding.
01:56:43.000I mean, some of the most fun stuff I've ever done is things people would consider weird, but my brother actually got into this thing called straight lining.
01:56:49.000The idea is you want to go from one side of your city to the other in a perfectly straight line, and then they score you.
01:56:56.000So you basically plot a path, and then they have different levels.
01:57:02.000Gold level is you can only deviate 20 meters from the line you choose.
01:57:06.000So if you choose a line that goes through a swamp, you're screwed.
01:57:31.000Novi, where we live and where our factory is.
01:57:35.000He had to get around some buildings, but part of it is choosing the right line.
01:57:39.000You gotta look at it from Google Earth and you can't see all that, like the swamp that he had to walk through just looked like a green patch in the woods.
01:57:45.000And your phone, your GPS tracks your... Yeah, he's got an app on his phone and he had a GPS with him and he's got it all on there.
01:57:52.000You can see the line and you can see where he deviated.
01:58:04.000Yeah, he started at, I think, 4.30 in the morning, because he had to walk through some residential areas, and he didn't want to be walking through people's yards in, like, full camo dress, you know, like, at 10 o'clock when everybody's getting into their cars.
01:59:20.000But there's a lot of people with ego who think if someone threatens or challenges you, you gotta fight, and I'm like, those people are gonna lose a lot.
01:59:27.000Or maybe they have nothing to begin with.
01:59:29.000Alright, let's grab a couple more, a couple more Super Chats before we jump over to our members-only show.
01:59:34.000Savannah says, So, Vayna, been watching your content for years and love Mr. Boca's Pumpkin Spice experience.
01:59:41.000I posted a coffee jingle on YouTube inspired from an IRL super chat on 729.
02:00:02.000Warpig says, down with candy bar tyranny.
02:00:05.000I never said you couldn't have a candy bar.
02:00:07.000I just think it's weird to cluster all of it into a bar.
02:00:11.000I'm just saying, like, if I'm gonna have a piece of candy, it's like you go and you're like, okay, I'll get like a truffle, and you know, you get a couple of them maybe.
02:00:19.000Somebody has to have a good YouTube documentary on, like, the history and the development of candy bars, right?
02:00:24.000Because, like, I'm thinking peppermints were a candy, but also people felt like they had some kind of, like, anti-nausea medicinal purpose.
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02:00:51.000The members-only show is coming up, and we're going to keep it to the members only because it'll get spicy, but the story is a 17-year-old young woman was left paralyzed in a volleyball game.
02:01:04.000competing against a male, left paralyzed with brain damage.
02:01:07.000And so this story is already blowing up.
02:01:10.000It came out a few hours ago, and it's going massively viral.