Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Jimmy Kimmel CRIES, Slams MAGA As SCUMBAGS For Call Out LAFD DEI w-Daniel Negreanu | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 So Jimmy Kimmel went on the show and said that we're all a gaggle of scumbags. 0.99

00:00:23.000 He called the president the alleged president, incoming president, and then said his gaggle of scumbags were criticizing the firefighters for not being white enough or whatever. 0.97

00:00:34.000 The assumption is, of course, he's talking about personalities who are criticizing the DEI policies, which exacerbated the problems in the California wildfires. 0.99

00:00:42.000 But thanks, Jimmy, for calling us scumbags, I guess. 0.94

00:00:45.000 The reality is, well, I won't be so crass. 0.97

00:00:48.000 But let me just put it this way.

00:00:49.000 How much do you think the Biden administration is going to give to the victims in the L.A. wildfires?

00:00:54.000 I know you're thinking of a number, but you're wrong.

00:00:56.000 It's not $700.

00:00:58.000 It's $770. 0.72

00:01:01.000 So maybe I won't use the word scumbag, but I really want to when it comes to these issues.

00:01:06.000 So thanks, Jimmy. 0.90

00:01:07.000 We'll talk about that.

00:01:08.000 And then, of course, we have Pete Hegseth in the news with these wild Senate confirmation hearings.

00:01:13.000 And it's just...

00:01:15.000 You know, I'm watching these, just thinking to myself, it's all fake.

00:01:18.000 Tim Kaine going after Hegseth, accusing him of cheating and other nonsense.

00:01:24.000 Elizabeth Warren coming after him because he said women shouldn't be in combat.

00:01:27.000 I'm like, none of these people are asking real questions that matter for someone who's going to be defending this nation.

00:01:33.000 But there was this really funny moment where Senator Mullins called at the Democrats for not saying anything when other senators show up to vote drunk.

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00:02:50.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Daniel Negrano.

00:02:54.000 Welcome, yeah.

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00:04:38.000 Mr. Phil.

00:04:39.000 Hello, everybody.

00:04:40.000 My name is Phil Labonte.

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00:04:46.000 Let's go.

00:04:47.000 Here's a story from Mediaite to kick things off. 0.99

00:04:49.000 Jimmy Kimmel breaks down over the fires and bitterly condemns Trump and his quote gaggle of scumbags saying firefighters aren't white enough. 0.98

00:04:57.000 Well, as everybody who watches this show knows, we've never criticized firefighters for not being white enough. 0.98

00:05:03.000 We've criticized them for not hiring enough firefighters because they don't want white ones, which is totally different. 0.97

00:05:09.000 And I assume the gaggle of scumbags comment has to be the supporters of Donald Trump, prominent personalities who have been criticizing DEI policies. 0.95

00:05:19.000 But let me play the clip for you. 0.93

00:05:21.000 And I'll start by saying I can give Jimmy respect.

00:05:23.000 I'm not going to rag on him for crying over the fires.

00:05:26.000 I mean, maybe an adult man should be crying like this.

00:05:28.000 Fine.

00:05:29.000 But it is terrifying and people are losing their lives.

00:05:31.000 So I can respect anybody who's emotional about this.

00:05:33.000 Here's a clip.

00:05:35.000 As you know, it has been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in L.A. where we work.

00:05:44.000 Where we live.

00:05:45.000 Where our kids go to school.

00:05:48.000 We are back in our studio, which we had to evacuate on Wednesday.

00:05:51.000 That's our building right there, the El Capitan.

00:05:54.000 That is how close this fire was to our theater here.

00:05:59.000 Many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry.

00:06:02.000 Some of our co-workers lost their homes.

00:06:05.000 That's Hollywood.

00:06:09.000 It's been terrible.

00:06:11.000 It's been terrible.

00:06:12.000 Everyone who lives in this city knows someone, most of us multiple people, families, friends, colleagues, neighbors whose house is burned down.

00:06:21.000 And the truth is we don't even know if it's over.

00:06:23.000 We had 100-mile-per-hour winds fueling this nightmare.

00:06:26.000 As of tonight, the winds are back.

00:06:29.000 And I think I speak for all of us when I say it has been sickening.

00:06:34.000 Shocking, awful experience.

00:06:36.000 But it's also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience because, once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other.

00:06:47.000 People who lost their own homes were out volunteering in parking lots, helping others who lost theirs.

00:06:54.000 And tonight, you know, I don't want to... 1.00

00:06:59.000 Get into all the vile and irresponsible and stupid things our alleged future president and his gaggle of scumbags chose to say during our darkest and most terrifying hour. 1.00

00:07:09.000 The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren't white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, it's disgusting, but it's not surprising. 1.00

00:07:19.000 Instead, I want to focus on thanking those men and women.

00:07:22.000 We got to do it.

00:07:29.000 We gotta call out the lies on the corporate press. 1.00

00:07:33.000 First of all, let me say, who's his gaggle of scumbags? 0.97

00:07:35.000 He's not talking about his administration because none of these people are doing press right now. 0.95

00:07:39.000 He's talking about the supporters, the prominent people in media, people like us, who have rightly criticized that the LA Fire Department is understaffed.

00:07:47.000 They've been complaining for years about having too many white people.

00:07:51.000 Adam Carolla pointed out that as a white man, he was held back for seven years, and these policies have...

00:07:57.000 Made it more difficult to fight these fires.

00:08:00.000 Now, there is other news.

00:08:01.000 A new fire erupted called the auto fire.

00:08:03.000 The winds are picking up.

00:08:05.000 It's going to get bad.

00:08:05.000 So, when I see this video and they're all laughing and cheering and clapping at lies, this has been the problem the whole time.

00:08:13.000 With the corporate press, the mainstream narrative, how do we solve the problem of these massive wildfires if the people who live in these areas don't actually know what we're saying, what the problem is?

00:08:25.000 I don't know that there is a solution on the horizon for these wildfires because the people in positions of authority are just passing the buck.

00:08:35.000 People like Jimmy Kimmel are blaming their political opponents or people that they dislike their politics for being the problem.

00:08:47.000 So I don't see a solution.

00:08:49.000 I don't see how anything gets fixed.

00:08:52.000 The government of California has been a single-party government for at least three decades, probably longer.

00:09:00.000 I don't know when.

00:09:01.000 The last time they had a genuine conservative or a person of a different political opinion.

00:09:08.000 And that just leads to all kinds of terrible results for the population, regardless of if it was if it which side it is.

00:09:16.000 Right.

00:09:16.000 So if hypothetically, if it was all Republicans in one state all the time for three decades, you would get the same kind of falling in line and everyone just going through the same motions all the time.

00:09:27.000 Because that kind of ideological uniformity does does nothing but breed corruption.

00:09:33.000 We're getting it out of Washington right now.

00:09:35.000 Four percent or five percent of D.C. voted for Donald Trump as opposed to Kamala Harris.

00:09:41.000 It's a terrible thing when you have uniformity of political opinion because you have people that are terrified to step out of line and say, no, this is a bad policy.

00:09:48.000 I'd play devil's advocate just a little bit on this with the one issue here, because.

00:09:52.000 For me, it's like about the timing a little bit, right?

00:09:54.000 The insensitivity of what happened, right?

00:09:57.000 So there has to be a moratorium to some degree of like horrible tragedy, horrible fire.

00:10:01.000 And I fear sometimes that we all do this.

00:10:03.000 We jump on narratives right away.

00:10:05.000 It's like, let's just have empathy for people that are, you know, we don't want to be rooting for this so that we can have an I told you so moment or anything along those lines.

00:10:13.000 And obviously, then you look at some of the issues like, why did this happen?

00:10:17.000 Then you start to hold the people accountable.

00:10:18.000 Maybe we're at that time where we start to look at that and the different reasons, whether there's evidence that specifically the DEI was a culprit here.

00:10:25.000 I don't know that you have that.

00:10:27.000 You certainly have negligence, it appears.

00:10:28.000 I'm not a fire guy, so maybe an expert can say so. 0.54

00:10:31.000 I know that many firemen have spoke out previously saying, all we need is one win and we're screwed.

00:10:36.000 If we knew that, we knew this six years ago, we know this now, why wasn't everything being done?

00:10:41.000 Who pays more taxes than people in California?

00:10:43.000 What are you paying for?

00:10:44.000 I completely agree.

00:10:46.000 I think the issue here is, I would agree, incompetence plays a much bigger role than diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:10:52.000 They didn't fill the reservoirs, they didn't build new reservoirs, and understaffing may have an issue.

00:10:58.000 There may be DEI involved in understaffing to a degree, but the bigger picture is general mismanagement.

00:11:03.000 In this regard, though, Jimmy Kimmel's going on a major late-night show, one of the most prominent in the country, and misrepresenting the criticism that we have, which is largely mismanagement, and then trying to make it look like...

00:11:16.000 Not specifically me, but the people in this space and Donald Trump are angry that there's too many people who aren't white as firefighters.

00:11:22.000 So, largely, completely agree.

00:11:25.000 I'd like to focus on how can we get relief?

00:11:28.000 And so, shout out to Mike Cernovich and Chef Andrew Gruel, who have been raising money, and Chef Gruel's been providing space and resources for people.

00:11:35.000 And I'm not going to rag on the guy for crying over watching his home burn.

00:11:38.000 Not at all.

00:11:38.000 But I want to correct the record and say this is not our criticism.

00:11:41.000 It is not that we're saying people are not white. 0.64

00:11:43.000 That should be called out.

00:11:45.000 Did Kimmel lose his house?

00:11:46.000 No.

00:11:47.000 I'm saying, like, this is his home.

00:11:50.000 You know what I mean?

00:11:50.000 I'm sure his favorite bagel shop doesn't exist anymore.

00:11:53.000 And that's fair to be upset about.

00:11:55.000 I know people who live in the Palisades.

00:11:58.000 They don't live there anymore.

00:12:00.000 I've been to parties up there.

00:12:01.000 Those parties will never happen again.

00:12:02.000 That scares me.

00:12:03.000 I have friends who live a few miles away from where these fires are, and I'm texting them to make sure they're alive.

00:12:08.000 So, I gotta say, the dude does cry a lot.

00:12:12.000 You know what I mean?

00:12:13.000 As an aside.

00:12:14.000 He wants to make it, just a typical Democrat wants to make it racial.

00:12:19.000 Our criticisms of them and their situations of mismanagement and getting everything wrong has nothing to do with who firefighters, what kind of racer firefighters you're hiring.

00:12:30.000 Zero percent.

00:12:31.000 It's an inversion of the criticism.

00:12:33.000 Our criticism is that they prioritized race when we shouldn't.

00:12:36.000 So Jimmy's attacking us saying we prioritize race.

00:12:39.000 Yeah.

00:12:40.000 I mean, again, I do think, though, from what I saw, just perusing social media, the issue was mainly brought up when this was happening.

00:12:47.000 I think a lot of maybe bad actors, if you will, were looking to score political points here, and they're like, how can we attack them in every way?

00:12:52.000 How can we get Gavin?

00:12:53.000 How can we get the DEI and all this sort of stuff?

00:12:56.000 There was, again, because I don't think there's direct evidence that...

00:12:58.000 You know, the fire chiefs there, the fact that they were women or people of color, like, that led to it.

00:13:04.000 I think, like you said, it's mismanagement as a whole.

00:13:07.000 Like, I'd be concerned if I lived there thinking, like, we know the number one threat to this area is wildfires.

00:13:12.000 So why is not, like, literally everything being done and so many resources being spent on that rather than...

00:13:18.000 Potentially spending it on DEI programs and other things like that.

00:13:21.000 And it's years.

00:13:21.000 This is not new.

00:13:22.000 This is California.

00:13:23.000 And it feels like every couple years when they have a big forest fire or they have a big fire, it's always blaming the same thing.

00:13:29.000 Climate change or any other kind of BS. Well, they don't manage their fires or manage their forest.

00:13:34.000 They just let it go.

00:13:37.000 You can finish with that.

00:13:38.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:38.000 I was going to say that they just let it be how it is and let it build up and let the brush build up and let it turn into a tinderbox.

00:13:46.000 So I'll give you this.

00:13:48.000 I think from a hard fact perspective to say we have definitive evidence of DEI causing problems could be argued.

00:13:54.000 But have you seen this video?

00:13:56.000 Oh, yes.

00:13:56.000 I've seen this video.

00:13:57.000 This is the video of the DEI chief.

00:14:00.000 This is the DEI chief saying outright, Is she strong enough to do this?

00:14:05.000 Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire?

00:14:08.000 Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.

00:14:13.000 That's absurd.

00:14:14.000 I can't believe they released that.

00:14:16.000 Right?

00:14:17.000 But, but, so, so let me just, that's the diversity chief for LAFD saying, you got yourself in the wrong place if I got to carry you out of a fire, instead of saying, we will do everything in our power to save your life.

00:14:27.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:27.000 I mean, obviously, when it comes to DEI, I'm like about as anti as you can get.

00:14:30.000 I think the whole concept is really, really stupid and backwards. 0.98

00:14:32.000 If you read, I don't know if you're familiar with Coleman Hughes. 0.99

00:14:35.000 Yes.

00:14:35.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:14:36.000 The End of Race Politics, which I thought was a great book, which sort of, you know, discussed that issue, you know, at, you know, in great depth.

00:14:42.000 So, like, I could be, I mean, I'm as anti-DEI as you can be.

00:14:46.000 But again, like you said, there's no clear evidence that that's the reason for the fires in this case.

00:14:50.000 Right, right, right.

00:14:51.000 I think, like, they should have prepared better for the fires.

00:14:56.000 There does seem to be arson at play.

00:14:58.000 There's another video of a person getting arrested.

00:15:01.000 But the fire likely started from New Year's Eve revelers.

00:15:04.000 That's the leading theory right now.

00:15:06.000 The embers burned for several days and then kicked back up.

00:15:09.000 And there's been general mismanagement.

00:15:11.000 So it's largely, I do think there's a political issue here.

00:15:14.000 We don't need, it's not that.

00:15:16.000 It's a diversity issue.

00:15:17.000 That plays a tiny role, I'd imagine.

00:15:19.000 But let's go full DEI criticism by playing this clip.

00:15:23.000 I'm being sassy.

00:15:25.000 Here you go.

00:15:26.000 And so it's critically important that to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis that you do.

00:15:42.000 And so that of course is Google Translate.

00:15:44.000 What is she talking about?

00:15:45.000 I mean, can you translate that into English?

00:15:47.000 I have zero idea what she's saying.

00:15:48.000 That was a lot of nothing.

00:15:50.000 That's why I will always give her credit for being the person who can use so many words to say so little.

00:15:57.000 She literally just said, please be patient.

00:15:59.000 That's it.

00:16:00.000 But she had to use 30 words to do it.

00:16:04.000 Yeah, I didn't even get that.

00:16:05.000 I need to read it like four times and see the video.

00:16:09.000 And you're right, I think she does a... 0.98

00:16:11.000 And often she actually shoots herself in the foot because sometimes she'll actually have something that she's going to say, but it happens in minute three.

00:16:17.000 In the first two minutes, nobody could follow because they're like, what are you talking about now?

00:16:21.000 You're just repeating words.

00:16:22.000 And then it's easy to sort of clip that and you air that without all the other and it just sounds like gibberish.

00:16:29.000 Daniel, six more days.

00:16:30.000 Less than six days, actually.

00:16:33.000 I think it's like five and a half.

00:16:34.000 So, are you excited?

00:16:35.000 Praise the Lord.

00:16:36.000 Well, listen, I mean, like I was talking to you before here, you know, I became a U.S. citizen in 2016 specifically to vote for your best friend Hillary Clinton.

00:16:43.000 We love her, don't we?

00:16:45.000 Right?

00:16:45.000 Did you really?

00:16:46.000 Yes, I did.

00:16:46.000 I did throw up when he said it.

00:16:48.000 Yeah, well, hey, you know, I'm here for pure transparency and authenticity, whatever the words are.

00:16:54.000 So, you know, that was my reasoning, right?

00:16:57.000 Not a fan.

00:16:59.000 My biggest fear was Trump was going to, like, lead us to nuclear war.

00:17:02.000 And what I saw in four years was quite the opposite happened.

00:17:05.000 There were no wars.

00:17:06.000 He buddy-buddied the wrong people according to the mainstream media.

00:17:11.000 But, like, in retrospect, I look at that from a strategic perspective and I think, is that a bad thing?

00:17:15.000 Necessarily that, you know, the old adage of, like, keep your enemies close, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

00:17:21.000 And what was the result of that?

00:17:22.000 Sure, maybe people...

00:17:24.000 Preyed on his ego and was like, you know, trying to nice, nice to get the best of him.

00:17:28.000 But ultimately what that led to was, you know, we had safety.

00:17:32.000 And I think as a voter, if you're not prioritizing national security and avoiding nuclear war, all the other stuff seems silly in comparison.

00:17:40.000 You know, like what are your taxes?

00:17:41.000 All this other mumbo jumbo side topics.

00:17:43.000 If we have nuclear war, none of it matters.

00:17:45.000 Less people died with Trump.

00:17:49.000 Negotiating with Kim Jong-un.

00:17:51.000 Or Russia or whatever.

00:17:53.000 We had less death.

00:17:54.000 There was a build-up and a fear of war with Russia and Ukraine under Obama.

00:17:59.000 Trump gets in and everything starts settling down.

00:18:02.000 Trump crushes ISIS. Trump loses to Biden.

00:18:06.000 And we instantly get war, escalation, confident crisis.

00:18:09.000 And foreign policy is one of my principal issues.

00:18:13.000 And that's why, certainly I'm not going to sit here and pretend that Trump or the people around him are perfect in any way, but certainly better than what we're going to get from Kamala Harris, Joe Biden?

00:18:22.000 Well, I think it's not really controversial to say that a large portion of the reason why countries were so aggressive during the Biden administration is because of incompetence.

00:18:36.000 Nobody felt like Biden was capable of actually following through on any threats.

00:18:41.000 I mean, how many times did he say to Iran, don't, don't, as if that's some kind of deterrent.

00:18:47.000 Well, clearly it wasn't. 0.89

00:18:49.000 You know, whereas with Donald Trump, people are like, well, maybe he's crazy enough to do something.

00:18:54.000 Yeah, I think the perception of strength is often, you know, even just as important as actual strength, right?

00:18:59.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:18:59.000 So like you said, you know, Trump says there'll be, you know, like the world's never seen before.

00:19:04.000 He uses a lot of hyperbole.

00:19:05.000 He says a lot of things.

00:19:06.000 We're going to invade.

00:19:08.000 We're going to take Greenland.

00:19:09.000 We're going to take everything.

00:19:09.000 He says all these things.

00:19:11.000 And to some degree, I think like...

00:19:13.000 When you're dealing with these other dictators or world leaders, he seems to have—he's like the dictator whisperer, if you will.

00:19:20.000 He speaks the language.

00:19:21.000 They get him, right?

00:19:23.000 You have to be a little bit crazy to understand some of these people, and it appears as though through his tenure, he kept the bad actors at bay, and then when he was out of office, it appeared as though they saw that as an opportunity.

00:19:35.000 So had Kamala won, my concern from those leaders would be like, Well, why would they stop now?

00:19:42.000 People in the West, in the US, Canada, and in a lot of parts of Western Europe, they really do believe that the rest of the world is like the West.

00:19:52.000 And I strongly disagree.

00:19:54.000 Like, the rest of the world doesn't respond to niceties and politeness and things like that.

00:20:01.000 They think that it's a sign of weakness.

00:20:03.000 And I think that's undeniable.

00:20:05.000 And there's a lot more of the rest of the world than there is of...

00:20:10.000 The United States, Canada, and Western Europe.

00:20:13.000 Strength is one word for how they perceived Trump, but maybe mad might be another word.

00:20:19.000 Fine with me.

00:20:21.000 Because Trump, and I'm not saying this to disparage Trump, these are Trump's words, that Putin and Xi feared he might actually nuke their capitals.

00:20:31.000 Maybe only 5%, Trump said, but it was enough.

00:20:34.000 So they back off.

00:20:35.000 Hopefully we get this kind of Trump is a madman deterrence and war abates.

00:20:41.000 I'm hearing that there's a ceasefire agreement looming with Israel and Hamas.

00:20:45.000 That would be very good.

00:20:46.000 We'll see.

00:20:48.000 Largely interested in the next few days of how we're going to see him deal with immigration and the economy.

00:20:53.000 The deal on hand right now, though, is one they've had for a while now.

00:20:58.000 It's the exact same deal they had at the beginning when the Biden administration and everyone said, don't do it.

00:21:03.000 At least on the show, I was watching Breaking Points.

00:21:06.000 What's going to happen?

00:21:07.000 The New Deal was exactly what it was a couple months ago, a year ago, when Biden did not want to do anything.

00:21:12.000 So it takes Trump to come in the office for him to finally, for him to say, Netanyahu?

00:21:17.000 Netanyahu?

00:21:18.000 Yeah.

00:21:18.000 Well, that was a really great press conference where Trump said, the gates of hell will be unleashed unless the hostages are released.

00:21:27.000 And I hope that they look at the TV and they say, aw, crap. 0.95

00:21:32.000 Yeah, well, I think, you know, I would look at it sort of a different way. 0.86

00:21:35.000 I don't think that...

00:21:35.000 Trump was specifically playing hardball with Netanyahu.

00:21:38.000 It was more a case of he saying, we're going to support you fully to end this war now.

00:21:43.000 I think there was a little bit of trepidation.

00:21:45.000 Under the Biden administration, there were several measures that they were trying to put on Netanyahu saying, don't go to Rafa, don't do this, don't do this.

00:21:53.000 And Trump, clearly of the two sides, was far more...

00:21:59.000 Pro-Israel side in this war.

00:22:00.000 So he's going to, you know, make sure that whatever they need, they're going to get.

00:22:04.000 But we don't know if they're giving him the West Bank, if they're going to let the settlers move in.

00:22:07.000 You know, we don't know the details of the actual, the small, what Trump is going to give them.

00:22:12.000 We don't know yet.

00:22:14.000 We'll see.

00:22:14.000 I'm curious, though.

00:22:15.000 You mentioned in 2016 you wanted to vote for Hillary.

00:22:18.000 Yes.

00:22:19.000 What was the moment for you where you were like, I can't vote for these people?

00:22:22.000 Okay, so the thing with Hillary was, like her or not, I think she was the most knowledgeable.

00:22:28.000 Like, the most quote-unquote prepared for understanding what goes on there, right?

00:22:31.000 She's lived her whole life in that, you know, in that avenue.

00:22:34.000 For me, I think there was just a, in the last year or two, if you will, my values haven't changed, really, at the core, like a classic liberal.

00:22:44.000 But I feel like both sides went sort of farther away from the middle.

00:22:50.000 So the question in this election is, like, who's closer to the middle?

00:22:53.000 And I think generally, who's closer to the middle?

00:22:56.000 You know, wins.

00:22:57.000 And Trump's coalition that he put together with Elon Musk and RFK and Tulsi Gabbard, I mean, and Trump himself, they're all Democrats.

00:23:04.000 They're all traditional.

00:23:05.000 Like, RFK said, I would have run as a Democrat.

00:23:07.000 Tulsi ran as a Democrat.

00:23:08.000 They kicked them out.

00:23:09.000 They threw them to the, you know, there was sort of this elitist attitude.

00:23:13.000 And there is.

00:23:14.000 I find because, you know, I'm in touch with both sides, obviously, in the world that I live in.

00:23:17.000 And I find there's a much more elitist attitude with those in the extreme progressive left that if you don't agree with them 100 percent.

00:23:25.000 You are the enemy.

00:23:27.000 And I don't find that or I haven't found that with those I disagree with on the other side as much.

00:23:32.000 And you're not deep entrenched in politics, I imagine.

00:23:34.000 Relatively so, you could say.

00:23:36.000 I consider myself politically homeless at this point.

00:23:38.000 But are you someone who watches political podcasts every day?

00:23:41.000 Yeah, I'm pretty in tune with what's going on.

00:23:43.000 Have you always been like that?

00:23:45.000 Yeah, I would say for the last...

00:23:47.000 I don't know how you get to Hillary Clinton if that's the case, you know what I mean?

00:23:53.000 Well, listen, I like Bill.

00:23:54.000 Right?

00:23:55.000 And I thought, you know, I like Bill Clinton.

00:23:56.000 And at the time, I mean, a lot of the issues that are, you know, have been raised since 2016 didn't exist back then, right?

00:24:03.000 There was no, well, we weren't really talking about DEI programs.

00:24:07.000 There wasn't the idea that- The internet was.

00:24:10.000 Internet in 2016 was talking about DEI programs.

00:24:12.000 Oh, yeah.

00:24:13.000 I guess I didn't see it.

00:24:14.000 Maybe because I was on Twitter, which was in my bubble, which I didn't see those types of things.

00:24:19.000 And I don't mean this just disrespectfully, but maybe there's an age gap.

00:24:23.000 I'm 38, so people in my age cohort were very heavily into video games, which we saw the beginning of this whole culture war with Gamergate.

00:24:32.000 There was this big upswing at the end of the 2000s for all of these diversity terms.

00:24:38.000 LexisNexis data shows that every news outlet just saw a massive spike in racism, white privilege, all of these things.

00:24:42.000 And so the core issues for people my age at the time, they didn't care about Barack Obama, drone bombs, or anything like that.

00:24:49.000 They were talking about why in a video game about World War I, the main character was a purple-haired woman with a missing hand.

00:24:56.000 Like, what's going on in our world?

00:24:58.000 And so when Donald Trump comes in and starts speaking crass and crude...

00:25:04.000 I was in Janesville, Wisconsin, and I talked to a couple of young guys who were like 22, and I said, what's your key issue?

00:25:10.000 And they said, political correctness.

00:25:12.000 We're freaked out by what the Democrats have been doing, and Trump kind of just says it like it is.

00:25:17.000 Yeah, no, there's no question.

00:25:18.000 I think, like, you bring up a really good point there, and for me, just sort of being introduced to quote-unquote woke ideology, right? 0.67

00:25:23.000 And the first experience I had with it, I was on ESPN, myself and Phil Helmuth, we were doing the break desk, and I was just talking about a play, and I said, well, it's not like this guy sucks, right? 0.68

00:25:32.000 The next day...

00:25:33.000 I didn't think I said anything wrong. 0.98

00:25:34.000 The next day, the execs at ESPN said, sorry, you can't use the term sucks. 0.93

00:25:38.000 And I'm like, wait a minute. 0.98

00:25:40.000 I said he doesn't suck, right? 0.99

00:25:42.000 And I guess the connotation is somehow that's homophobic in some way. 0.99

00:25:45.000 No way. 0.98

00:25:46.000 Is that what sucks means? 0.98

00:25:48.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.98

00:25:49.000 Well, that's where it comes from.

00:25:50.000 Really?

00:25:50.000 I didn't even know that.

00:25:51.000 When it's like, oh, he sucks. 1.00

00:25:53.000 Something. 0.99

00:25:53.000 Okay. 0.99

00:25:54.000 So the next day I go in and there was a woman on set or whatever, and I was tired, whatever.

00:25:58.000 So I just said something like, oh, you know what?

00:26:00.000 We got a long day.

00:26:01.000 I just got to man up.

00:26:02.000 And I was told that that was insensitive and I was using gendered language and I didn't understand what she meant.

00:26:08.000 You know, like I just said, man, I got a man up.

00:26:12.000 And she felt that was gendered language. 0.99

00:26:14.000 So that was my first sort of introduction into it.

00:26:16.000 And then I sort of saw that sort of avenue towards all these little microaggressions and really creating the divide, making it to the point where you walk around in eggshells with everything you say, you might say the wrong thing.

00:26:26.000 And no tolerance at all.

00:26:28.000 Like I asked this woman, I said, listen.

00:26:30.000 The guy who's 75 years old, he lives in Texas, he says to the waitresses, hey honey, can I get some more of that?

00:26:35.000 Are you going to call him a sexist?

00:26:36.000 You know, all these types of things.

00:26:38.000 Yes, they will.

00:26:38.000 And she's like, she said yes, and I was like, well, don't you think it's worthwhile to explain to him?

00:26:42.000 He's like, I don't want to do the teaching.

00:26:43.000 He has to do the work on his own.

00:26:45.000 I was like, you're making somebody evil for doing something that he's been doing 70 years of his life with no ill intent.

00:26:51.000 And I think that's where they really missed the boat.

00:26:54.000 What is his intention when he says, hey honey, can you bring me another coffee?

00:26:57.000 Was there anything demeaning about what he said?

00:26:59.000 Maybe you could argue that it's a language we shouldn't use.

00:27:02.000 I'm all for it.

00:27:02.000 Let's talk about it, right?

00:27:03.000 Let's have the conversation.

00:27:05.000 Have you ever told that ESPN story before?

00:27:07.000 Is that like, wow, I did not know that. 0.91

00:27:09.000 First of all, I didn't even know that's the origin of the word sucks. 0.50

00:27:11.000 Yes, I didn't know that either until I was married for the first time. 0.95

00:27:15.000 I mean, on The Simpsons, there's that famous joke where Bart says, I didn't think it was possible, but this both blows and sucks at the same time.

00:27:23.000 Yeah, right.

00:27:24.000 And as a kid, I didn't know.

00:27:26.000 I just thought...

00:27:27.000 That blows.

00:27:28.000 But they were like, it was almost like this weird face they made to me too.

00:27:31.000 I was like, I really was like, I thought I did a good job on the break desk.

00:27:36.000 I was proud of it.

00:27:37.000 And I was like, why not? 0.99

00:27:38.000 I said he doesn't suck. 0.98

00:27:40.000 So you're commenting on a poker game? 0.98

00:27:42.000 Yeah, so it was the World Series of Poker final table.

00:27:44.000 And then while they're on break, we go and discuss the plays and stuff. 0.52

00:27:48.000 So I was talking about a play and he said, it's not like he sucks. 0.99

00:27:50.000 And I thought, okay, maybe they don't want me to say that the players suck. 0.98

00:27:52.000 You don't want to demean them. 0.98

00:27:53.000 That's fine. 0.99

00:27:54.000 But I said he doesn't suck. 0.99

00:27:56.000 And they said, no, you just can't. 0.97

00:27:56.000 Positive. 0.97

00:27:57.000 And I just didn't understand why.

00:28:00.000 What year was it?

00:28:01.000 I think it was 2017-18.

00:28:02.000 I think it was like, it was before the peak, but for me it was the early onset of sort of this ideology that, you know, I was always sort of anti-political correctness my whole life because I think it's silly.

00:28:12.000 I grew up in a multicultural world where we all made fun of each other.

00:28:15.000 We told jokes about each other.

00:28:16.000 You're not allowed to do today.

00:28:17.000 Like if Phil Ivey, who's a friend of mine, and I are on a golf course, you know, and you heard the conversation, we'd both be canceled.

00:28:23.000 Oh, dude, I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:28:26.000 I grew up much the same way with a bunch of my friends of all different racial backgrounds.

00:28:30.000 And one of our friends referred to each and every one of us by our racial slur.

00:28:34.000 And we all thought it was funny.

00:28:35.000 Nobody was mad.

00:28:36.000 Nobody was offended.

00:28:37.000 Nobody was insulted.

00:28:38.000 We were bonding almost.

00:28:39.000 We were trying to be like George Carlin.

00:28:41.000 We looked up to these liberal guys.

00:28:43.000 Yeah, we always found humor to be a way that we bond, you know, and it became such a faux pas.

00:28:48.000 Like, you know, you think of Don Rickles' era, which maybe was a little extreme, you know, with the stereotypes, if you will.

00:28:52.000 But, you know, I've always felt like when we celebrate our difference and we laugh about them, we actually grow closer.

00:28:57.000 Then this idea, and this is where the DEI programs and this training and these trainings, which have proven to actually increase.

00:29:05.000 Racist ideas, right?

00:29:06.000 When you constantly talk about this stuff and you introduce it to children who used to play with their friends who were black, brown, and whatever, and they're just their friends.

00:29:14.000 But now, no, no, that's not just your friend.

00:29:15.000 That's your black friend.

00:29:17.000 And that's different, right?

00:29:19.000 So when you introduce that, you create these divides that didn't necessarily need to exist in the first place.

00:29:24.000 Let's wheel it back into the modern political space.

00:29:28.000 We have this story from Yahoo.

00:29:30.000 Biden announces one-time $770 payment for L.A. wildfire victims.

00:29:36.000 Everything's all better now.

00:29:37.000 Case closed.

00:29:39.000 Problem solved.

00:29:40.000 Well, when the last tragedy happened, it was $700, so they've upped it.

00:29:44.000 But during the campaign, I remember when she said that.

00:29:46.000 When she said $700, I thought to myself, if I was the...

00:29:51.000 I'd be like, say you're going to give them financial aid.

00:29:54.000 Don't say $700 because it sounds offensive.

00:29:57.000 Why does it sound offensive?

00:29:59.000 Because it's offensive.

00:30:00.000 People just lost everything.

00:30:01.000 You're like, don't worry.

00:30:03.000 We got you.

00:30:04.000 Here's $700.

00:30:05.000 Now it's $770.

00:30:06.000 How many people look at that?

00:30:07.000 And also, by the way, you don't just get the $700.

00:30:09.000 You got to apply.

00:30:10.000 We got to make sure that you're good for it.

00:30:12.000 And not everyone did.

00:30:13.000 So, again, if I was the...

00:30:15.000 PR manager, I would have been like, don't say 700, because that's not a sexy number.

00:30:19.000 You better off saying nothing.

00:30:20.000 I mean...

00:30:20.000 770 isn't much more sexy.

00:30:21.000 There is a serious challenge, though.

00:30:22.000 I mean, how would the government be able to compensate everybody what they'd actually need?

00:30:26.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:30:27.000 Like, in California specifically, we don't have poker tournaments in California anymore, not big ones anymore, because of the taxes.

00:30:33.000 Nobody can win, because the state tax is an extra 7 or 8%.

00:30:36.000 So the question is, like, if I lived there, and I would be asking the question...

00:30:40.000 Why am I paying so much tax here?

00:30:42.000 Like, what do I get extra that I wouldn't get in another state?

00:30:46.000 What is that?

00:30:47.000 Do I get safety?

00:30:48.000 Do I get we have one national disaster that's prominent in this area?

00:30:52.000 Do we have resources and money?

00:30:54.000 Is that money going to that?

00:30:55.000 Or what is it?

00:30:56.000 What is the money going to?

00:30:58.000 Right.

00:30:58.000 And that's where I would be upset.

00:31:00.000 We here don't do any business in California at all.

00:31:02.000 The regulations, the laws are cumbersome, offensive.

00:31:07.000 Like, we've had people who want to work remote.

00:31:10.000 Some people we have here who work remote for one reason or another.

00:31:13.000 And, you know, in Pennsylvania, it's totally fine.

00:31:15.000 You're not that far away.

00:31:15.000 You can drive when you need to.

00:31:16.000 We can fly you in.

00:31:17.000 Wisconsin, no big deal.

00:31:18.000 California, sorry, can't help you.

00:31:20.000 The taxes, the regulations.

00:31:22.000 Like, we had one instance where I think we do zero business with California for this reason.

00:31:27.000 And California still tried coming after us for some reason.

00:31:29.000 Like, sending a letter to one of our other addresses claiming about some, like, money owed for some reason.

00:31:34.000 I just, like, laughed and threw it away.

00:31:35.000 I'm like, yeah, nice try, dude.

00:31:37.000 I view the state as regressive and oppressive.

00:31:44.000 When we look at the wildfires right now, the point you bring up about where the tax money is going, clearly it's not being managed properly, but I believe California has the highest taxes in the country.

00:31:54.000 I believe so.

00:31:55.000 Yeah.

00:31:56.000 When I was in the car business, it was 8.25% back in 2006. That's huge.

00:32:03.000 New York City.

00:32:04.000 California, I believe, is the highest taxed place to live.

00:32:07.000 The city, yeah, because you have city tax, state tax.

00:32:10.000 But California, I think, is the highest income tax.

00:32:12.000 So the question then for all you guys is, for everybody, I mean, like, you know, rhetorically, what are they doing with all that money?

00:32:18.000 Well, that's a good question.

00:32:19.000 I mean, I do know a lot of people that have left California.

00:32:22.000 And they seem to be one of the...

00:32:23.000 I think it was five years running.

00:32:24.000 I saw a stat.

00:32:25.000 They're one of the top five states that people are leaving.

00:32:28.000 They're going to Austin, Texas.

00:32:29.000 They're coming to Las Vegas. 0.71

00:32:30.000 And Southern California is friggin' awesome.

00:32:35.000 Like, the weather...

00:32:36.000 Like, last February, I was there.

00:32:39.000 It was...

00:32:40.000 I'm in Lakewood.

00:32:41.000 And it's beautiful.

00:32:42.000 I'm walking around in shorts and you look over to the mountains and they're snow-capped.

00:32:47.000 And I don't ski, but I know you can go and ski during the day and come home.

00:32:52.000 And then if you want, you can go to the beach in the same day.

00:32:55.000 It is awesome.

00:32:56.000 And that's why the government has the ability to behave in such absolutely horrible ways.

00:33:05.000 If it wasn't gorgeous and wonderful, you wouldn't have a government...

00:33:10.000 True. 0.99

00:33:10.000 That treats its citizens like such garbage and is so absolutely awful to the taxpayer. 0.99

00:33:18.000 I guess I go back to the $770 payment and the question is like... 0.98

00:33:23.000 It's not like half of a rent or a third of a rent for these people.

00:33:26.000 Should the federal government give everybody 10 grand?

00:33:29.000 Even 10 grand is not going to cover the loss of your entire...

00:33:32.000 Life, you know what I mean?

00:33:33.000 Yeah, I don't know the number.

00:33:34.000 It's better than 770. No, you're wrong.

00:33:36.000 This feels like not even a Band-Aid, but like the tip of a Band-Aid without any of the pad.

00:33:41.000 This is like a month's worth of, not even a month, like two weeks of groceries.

00:33:45.000 If that, good luck.

00:33:47.000 You got nowhere to live.

00:33:48.000 I mean, if any state would be the state that gives more, it should be California because the people there are paying more to live there.

00:33:54.000 Well, it is Biden, right?

00:33:55.000 So I don't know.

00:33:56.000 Oh, right.

00:33:56.000 The state is doing anything.

00:33:57.000 Good point.

00:33:58.000 I'll say this, man.

00:33:59.000 I have no...

00:34:00.000 How many people have been displaced?

00:34:03.000 200,000?

00:34:04.000 Let me see if I can do some quick math and see how much we can get these guys.

00:34:08.000 We'll get them something good.

00:34:10.000 Let's do this.

00:34:11.000 And what did we just send?

00:34:12.000 A couple billions or a couple hundred millions to Ukraine again?

00:34:14.000 I'd rather pay my taxes and give it to those nice folks who have their homes burned down. 0.99

00:34:19.000 We should be...

00:34:20.000 Is this math wrong?

00:34:23.000 175,000 people is what they've said have been displaced in L.A. So, okay, let me do this.

00:34:28.000 I think I got the numbers wrong because ChadGPT's math basically says if we stopped funding Ukraine, we could give everybody a million bucks who's been affected by the fires.

00:34:37.000 So how much...

00:34:38.000 Oh, ChadGPT.

00:34:41.000 Let's get the hard numbers on this one.

00:34:44.000 I think my numbers are right.

00:34:48.000 I'm going to go with the low end.

00:34:50.000 Let's just go with the low end.

00:34:52.000 Let's do this.

00:34:56.000 Here's how much, if we don't fund Ukraine, the federal government could give $380,000 to each individual evacuated over this disaster.

00:35:05.000 That's not even the people who've lost their homes.

00:35:07.000 There's been 12,000 structure collapses.

00:35:10.000 So with 175,000 people evacuated, we say no money for war in Ukraine, $380,000 for the American citizens.

00:35:17.000 What say you guys?

00:35:18.000 How do you feel about it?

00:35:19.000 I love it.

00:35:19.000 First, I'll go to the folks of North Carolina.

00:35:22.000 I mean, I want to take care of...

00:35:23.000 That's true.

00:35:24.000 I don't know, priority-wise.

00:35:25.000 All right, so Israel's money can go to... 0.68

00:35:27.000 Yes, there we go.

00:35:28.000 There we go.

00:35:28.000 The people that are still dealing with the stuff that happened in North Carolina, that was months and months and months ago.

00:35:36.000 So they should get priority over the people in California just because they've been dealing with the disaster longer.

00:35:43.000 You know, get those people made whole or as much as you can possibly and then move on to California.

00:35:49.000 Because in California...

00:35:51.000 It's not done happening.

00:35:52.000 And it's warm there. 0.93

00:35:53.000 You live on the freaking streets, but in North Carolina you're freezing in the woods. 0.62

00:35:57.000 Yeah, like they were saying that today and tomorrow is like 100 mile an hour winds again. 0.77

00:36:02.000 So I haven't looked at what's going on currently, but if the winds are that strong, they're not going to be able to advance containment.

00:36:14.000 It's going to be just a matter of trying to stay where it is, never mind actually making progress.

00:36:20.000 Are we still at 10%?

00:36:21.000 I think it's between 14% and 70% contained.

00:36:25.000 But with the winds kicking up, it's starting to spread again.

00:36:27.000 And now there is another fire.

00:36:28.000 We can throw this one on.

00:36:29.000 The auto fire has burned 56 acres.

00:36:32.000 Not Ventura.

00:36:33.000 Yeah.

00:36:34.000 Out in Ventura.

00:36:35.000 And it's crazy, because I saw an early report that they contained it, but now it's looking like it's not contained at all, and Fox said 0%.

00:36:40.000 Why are they calling this the auto fire?

00:36:42.000 I don't know.

00:36:43.000 Probably, maybe auto dealerships in that whole area, Oxnard, Ventura.

00:36:48.000 Oh, is that it?

00:36:49.000 Maybe, because that's my whole, you know, my 20s.

00:36:51.000 It looks like there's a bunch of...

00:36:52.000 And car dealerships, so, in that area.

00:36:56.000 Man, this stuff just keeps freaking me out, because I... I didn't grow up in this area or anything like that.

00:37:03.000 I only lived there for a couple years, but industry-wise, with skateboarding especially and music and TV, I know a lot of people over here.

00:37:13.000 So this is...

00:37:14.000 I don't even know what's going on over here.

00:37:17.000 A cluster of fires at a golf club?

00:37:18.000 Let me pull this up.

00:37:21.000 It's crazy.

00:37:23.000 That's a lot of fires.

00:37:24.000 Some seem so.

00:37:25.000 I mean, I saw videos of fires just being started.

00:37:29.000 Yeah, these arsonists.

00:37:30.000 Random, like, what is happening with that?

00:37:32.000 Like, that...

00:37:33.000 What is that about?

00:37:35.000 Just today, Ghost of Washington on Twitter showed one up.

00:37:38.000 Some people want to watch the world burn.

00:37:39.000 That's what I'm thinking.

00:37:40.000 I'm wondering, like, what is the incentive?

00:37:41.000 Is this, like, climate activists that want to prove climate change is real going, watch, I'll burn this whole place down?

00:37:46.000 I think there's... 0.97

00:37:46.000 We're psychos. 0.97

00:37:48.000 There's a lot of homeless people.

00:37:50.000 And homeless people and mentally ill people is almost a circle of end diagram.

00:37:54.000 Like, there are so many people that have mental illness.

00:37:56.000 You get a lot of people that have mental illness, and they're just like, well, I can do it too, you know?

00:38:01.000 I would not be surprised if at least one of these guys or some element were far-left progressive or far-left extremists because many of these people, their view of revolution is we have to destroy the system by any means necessary to start a new one.

00:38:19.000 So when I watch a video of a guy, take a look at this video.

00:38:22.000 This guy is literally starting a tree on fire.

00:38:27.000 Why did he do that?

00:38:29.000 Why did he?

00:38:31.000 That's crazy.

00:38:32.000 Yeah, this is one of the videos I saw.

00:38:34.000 David Harris Jr. just posted this.

00:38:35.000 This guy, for no reason, tried starting a massive fire burning a tree.

00:38:41.000 I think people are angry, right?

00:38:44.000 People are angry for a lot of different reasons, right?

00:38:46.000 So sometimes people want to just literally burn it all down.

00:38:48.000 Well, there's already fires, so they get the opportunity to just be like, oh, no, it's fire, you know, and they get to, like, a lot of angry, like you said, people that are mentally unstable, you know, a lot of people that went through the whole period of isolation and the, you know, the mental health issues, you know, a lot of people suffered from that, the sort of divisive nature of the political climate and social media, like, people get radicalized, right?

00:39:10.000 And so if you radicalize, whichever way, Like, you know, it's a hop, step, and a jump towards just burn it all down.

00:39:16.000 It's trendy now for these folks.

00:39:18.000 Well, when we heard the insurance companies pulled out of California and started canceling these policies, the first question we have is, like, why would they do that?

00:39:28.000 That's a strategic decision based on information.

00:39:31.000 Like, when insurance companies do this, they're like, okay, we make a lot of money doing this.

00:39:34.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:39:34.000 We're not going to make any money.

00:39:35.000 Why?

00:39:36.000 What do you foresee coming, right?

00:39:38.000 And there's, like, I mean, people have predicted.

00:39:41.000 What was it?

00:39:42.000 Six months before, there was a fireman who said, like, it's as simple as, like, if we have a bad wind, it's going to all burn down.

00:39:47.000 We can't do anything about it.

00:39:48.000 We can't stop it.

00:39:49.000 So, like, you don't blame the firefighters themselves.

00:39:51.000 They're literally risking their lives for it.

00:39:53.000 They don't have the resources.

00:39:54.000 But what was the reaction from far leftists when the news broke about the insurance companies?

00:40:00.000 They started posting a series of memes of people speed dialing Luigi Mangione.

00:40:04.000 Which, of course, is insane because in both cases, it's the government that's actually at fault.

00:40:10.000 The reason that the insurance companies pulled out of California was because the government said that they couldn't raise the prices on insurance.

00:40:18.000 So the insurance companies said, we're going to lose our butt if something like what is happening now happens.

00:40:24.000 And the reason they didn't raise the prices is because the government said you can't.

00:40:27.000 And then when it comes to the whole thing with Luigi, the reason that health insurance is so expensive is because there's no market and because the government is involved in healthcare.

00:40:38.000 Both of these issues are...

00:40:41.000 Because of government manipulating the markets and not having an open market that can actually make decisions based on the realities on the ground. 1.00

00:40:52.000 But yet they're blaming the corporations because they're idiots. 1.00

00:40:56.000 Or we can blame climate change. 1.00

00:40:58.000 Let's pull up this clip.

00:41:00.000 We got Tim Kass News citing the stream from Hassan and he's talking with Bernie Sanders.

00:41:06.000 I will just let them describe it. 0.99

00:41:08.000 But basically, you're a moron if you don't believe the wildfires were the result of climate change. 0.97

00:41:13.000 The likes of DEI or whatever the new Republican thing is on any given basis is simply a misdirection away from the actual reasons as to why anthropogenic climate change is accelerating these extreme weather events. 0.98

00:41:29.000 It makes me furious.

00:41:30.000 It really does.

00:41:33.000 Presumably what's going on in L.A. is all because you have a Democratic governor, a Democratic mayor, but then they're going to have to explain why we've had all this terrible flooding and other disasters in very red states all across this country. 0.99

00:41:50.000 You've got to be a moron not to understand that climate change does not give a damn whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. 0.99

00:41:56.000 It is real. 1.00

00:41:57.000 They had record rainfall earlier this year.

00:42:04.000 Can I just pause to point out there's a giant red fist in Bernie's office?

00:42:09.000 Yeah, he's a communist!

00:42:10.000 It's a straight-up communist symbol.

00:42:12.000 Right, for people to understand, the red salute, the red fist, is akin to the Roman salute, which was used by the Nazis.

00:42:19.000 For whatever reason, schools just don't demonize the communists the same way.

00:42:23.000 I mean, I know why we demonize Nazis.

00:42:25.000 I think we should also rightly demonize communists.

00:42:29.000 But sure, whatever.

00:42:31.000 Climate change is causing devastating problems in L.A., throughout our country.

00:42:36.000 My small state of Vermont in the last number of years has been hit time and again.

00:42:41.000 Floods which have wreaked havoc for hundreds and hundreds of homeowners, small business people, our state capital.

00:42:48.000 I'm sorry.

00:42:49.000 I got to stop.

00:42:50.000 You know what this is?

00:42:51.000 These are guys standing on the side of the road holding a sign saying the end is nigh.

00:42:54.000 Give me ten bucks. 1.00

00:42:55.000 Idiots. 1.00

00:42:56.000 I think the thing about climate change, right? 1.00

00:42:58.000 So the theory is that the climate's changing, right?

00:43:00.000 When in history is the climate like never like it doesn't that isn't that just normal like the climate does change the question really is is it stuff that we're doing right and I don't know that the science is you know I think that there is Some science that suggests, you know, maybe we're playing a role, but, like, whether we play a role or not, the climate's always going to change.

00:43:17.000 There'll be floods, there'll be winds, there'll be, you know, all sorts of shifts.

00:43:20.000 You're exactly right, and I want to make a point that I continue to make regularly on the show.

00:43:25.000 If there is man-made climate change, it is because of China and India, both of which have 1.5 billion people.

00:43:34.000 I think the point you make, too, in addition to that, sorry to interrupt you, but is that, you know, even if we did everything right, we recycled everything, we did everything in the U.S., it's irrelevant.

00:43:41.000 Because if, you know, large areas like China and India are burning coal or whatever the case may be, they're not they don't stop.

00:43:50.000 And it's really useless.

00:43:51.000 It doesn't do anything.

00:43:52.000 And these these both of those countries have a massive, massive population of very, very poor people.

00:44:00.000 Right.

00:44:00.000 Like even though they don't have time or luxury to worry about exactly that stuff.

00:44:05.000 Exactly.

00:44:06.000 When you have people that are that poor, that are literally burning animal waste, burning dung to heat their homes and stuff, you can't look at the American people who have made massive progress in...

00:44:20.000 Clean energy and changing their lifestyles and people change their light bulbs so they're not using incandescent anymore and they're using LEDs and all these small things that millions and millions and millions and millions of Americans have done on their own, without the government saying you have to, on their own to make changes because they do believe that it's important to at least contribute and help. 1.00

00:44:40.000 You can't look at them and say, you people are idiots. 1.00

00:44:42.000 You people are morons. 1.00

00:44:44.000 It's absolutely counterproductive. 1.00

00:44:45.000 I can very easily logically debunk.

00:44:48.000 our good friend Bernie Sanders and Hassan over here.

00:44:50.000 You see, the point they're trying to make is that it's not DEI or Democrat mayors or governors.

00:44:56.000 Climate change is real.

00:44:57.000 Now let's try some logic.

00:44:59.000 Which political party has been telling us we must engage in mitigation practices to deal with climate change?

00:45:05.000 Republicans.

00:45:05.000 No, it wasn't Republicans.

00:45:07.000 You will lose minus 500 points.

00:45:09.000 In fact, it is Democrats.

00:45:11.000 Which state has a Democrat supermajority?

00:45:15.000 Many, but California.

00:45:16.000 So the question then becomes, if Democrats know climate change is a problem and Democrats have advocated for climate change mitigation, and then you have a Democrat governor and mayor and they don't mitigate the problem they tell us is coming, then they're going to is it the fault of those politicians?

00:45:36.000 Yes.

00:45:37.000 Thank you, Bernie.

00:45:38.000 Have a nice day.

00:45:39.000 It's true.

00:45:40.000 I think ultimately the idea of climate change, if it's dependent upon you and me making sure that we recycle, we're screwed.

00:45:47.000 No, really.

00:45:47.000 You cannot depend on how many billion people are on this earth to all do the right thing.

00:45:52.000 It's like when you used to go on an airplane, and they'd be like, oh, you've got to turn your cell phone off, or what?

00:45:58.000 You really think that my cell phone, if this is going to bring down the plane, we've got bigger problems than that, right?

00:46:03.000 So I think at a micro level, it's theater.

00:46:07.000 It's this idea that we're doing the little things to make a difference, but in reality, it makes very little.

00:46:13.000 If you recycle plastic...

00:46:15.000 Like, 99% of it doesn't get recycled anymore.

00:46:18.000 I think when you spend enough time at a poker table and you get angled so often, you just don't trust people anymore.

00:46:24.000 You learn to be...

00:46:25.000 Yeah, you learn to not trust, I guess.

00:46:27.000 When that guy accidentally throws in a hundred and goes, oh, no, I meant to do 20. Oh, geez, look at me.

00:46:32.000 You're like, these people are not gentlemen.

00:46:34.000 You cannot trust them. 0.99

00:46:35.000 And you've got to be a moron like Bernie Sanders and Hassan Piker to conflate DEI with the response and the preparedness. 0.99

00:46:43.000 Preparing this and the response to what is going to happen in the state. 1.00

00:46:46.000 Yeah, DEI... Good, good.

00:46:48.000 I'm done.

00:46:49.000 Well, DEI is a great excuse and it's a buzzword nowadays, but it really is just incompetence.

00:46:55.000 You know, the people that are put in positions that were supposed to, you know, they were supposed to do these.

00:47:01.000 I don't think it matters who you had there because they didn't have the resources.

00:47:04.000 Like, I don't think that anyone in that fire department was, like, not going to do their absolute best, whatever that is.

00:47:09.000 And it wasn't the personnel or the people themselves.

00:47:11.000 It's the question of, like...

00:47:12.000 Why aren't they?

00:47:14.000 Because there are other parts of the world that have similar climates to California, but they don't have these problems.

00:47:19.000 And part of the problems you sort of touched on earlier was just like really taking care of the forest.

00:47:24.000 I guess apparently there's a...

00:47:27.000 A boatload of eucalyptus growing everywhere, and it takes a long time for that.

00:47:31.000 I've heard that meme, and I don't know if it's actually true, but the story goes that there's a boatload of eucalyptus, and it takes a long time to mature.

00:47:39.000 100 years.

00:47:40.000 100 years to mature.

00:47:41.000 And the...

00:47:42.000 The oils that it secretes is super flammable, and so you've got California full of eucalyptus with this oil that secretes, and they don't clean up the forest floor.

00:47:53.000 So, like, literally everything that could go wrong.

00:47:55.000 Trump got laughed at for saying that a while back.

00:47:57.000 Of course.

00:47:57.000 In a lot of things he says he gets from experts, and they make sense to him, so then he just sort of regurgitates it in his own way, right?

00:48:03.000 Maybe simplifies it in the sense of saying, like, shouldn't you just clean up the forest?

00:48:07.000 And people laughed, like, haha, yeah, I'm sure it's as simple as brewing up, but like...

00:48:10.000 He's right.

00:48:11.000 You rake the floor.

00:48:12.000 This is really one way to mitigate the damage done is by not having the area be a powder keg. 0.99

00:48:19.000 We've done it here.

00:48:19.000 We've done it at properties in this.

00:48:22.000 Yeah, we have to rake.

00:48:24.000 Yes.

00:48:24.000 You have to rake.

00:48:25.000 Yeah, by law.

00:48:26.000 Those are laws that you have to be compliant.

00:48:29.000 I got to pull up this story for you, Daniel.

00:48:32.000 Delays and a lack of resources.

00:48:34.000 This was reported yesterday.

00:48:36.000 New York Post.

00:48:38.000 LA firefighters took 45 minutes to respond to the Palisades blaze, and by that point, it was too late.

00:48:44.000 Why so long?

00:48:45.000 I don't know.

00:48:47.000 45 minutes is a very long time.

00:48:50.000 Yeah, that's rough to hear.

00:48:53.000 I'm sorry.

00:48:55.000 Guys, 45 minutes is a long time.

00:48:56.000 If a report came in that a wildfire started, dispatch the chopper, I guess?

00:49:02.000 Everything.

00:49:02.000 Well, to be fair, to be fair on the chopper point, it was too windy to do so.

00:49:06.000 Taking 40 minutes to respond, I'm like...

00:49:08.000 And you're in Cali?

00:49:09.000 I'm not ragging on the firefighters.

00:49:11.000 I'm ragging on whatever their resources were or the management or whatever the issue was.

00:49:14.000 They were unable.

00:49:16.000 Nothing to do with the firefighters.

00:49:18.000 God bless them.

00:49:18.000 They're doing their job the best they can.

00:49:19.000 It's their management and their leaders.

00:49:21.000 Well, the firefighters, many of them say, we had no chance.

00:49:24.000 We were like, Mother Nature just owned us.

00:49:26.000 There was nothing we could do.

00:49:27.000 And I believe that.

00:49:29.000 But I believe that's part and parcel because they weren't prepared.

00:49:33.000 So why weren't they prepared?

00:49:34.000 Is the key question.

00:49:36.000 Yes.

00:49:36.000 I have a friend that used to do, I forget what the name of the job is, but he's a firefighter that would jump out of airplanes to go and fight wildfires way off in the woods and stuff.

00:49:45.000 And he was saying, look, man, if those winds are going to kick up like this, 100 miles an hour, even God isn't putting that fire out.

00:49:53.000 Because I said to him, I was like, yo, bro, you need to get down to L.A. And he's like, man, even if I went down there, there's nothing that can be done.

00:49:59.000 He's like, the wind is just too much.

00:50:01.000 Even, you know, you're not putting these fires out.

00:50:04.000 Smoke jumper, by the way.

00:50:05.000 Smoke jumper, that's what it is.

00:50:06.000 Also, like, what about homes?

00:50:08.000 Like, I mean, these homes that all burn down, like, if you use concrete, they don't burn down, right?

00:50:13.000 I mean, if you live in an area like that, you maybe have to say, like, okay, if you want to live in this area, you must build this type of home.

00:50:21.000 There was a video of metal on fire in the wildfires, and it was a metal frame burning, and I was just like...

00:50:29.000 I think maybe when it gets too hot, a lot more burns than you realize.

00:50:33.000 But, you know, honestly, I don't know that I know enough to answer definitively whether or not, because what I will say is I've seen seemingly metal skyscrapers on fire.

00:50:45.000 Obviously, if you build the house out of wood, it's going to burn, you know, if it ends up happening.

00:50:49.000 But I do think that a lot of materials we use, be it insulation or otherwise, things we have to use, carpeting and other things, are going to catch on fire.

00:50:57.000 Have you seen what they do in Japan?

00:50:58.000 Okay, this is crazy.

00:50:59.000 But in Japan, on their roofs, built into the houses, they have this thing where if a fire happens, the roof opens up and sprinklers just fire off.

00:51:08.000 And they, like, protect all the homes and stuff like that.

00:51:10.000 Japan's the coolest place on earth, man.

00:51:12.000 Japan just does it. 0.99

00:51:13.000 Japan is so great.

00:51:15.000 I've been to Japan, but they're doing alright.

00:51:17.000 I've been to Japan a bunch of times.

00:51:18.000 I love it, man.

00:51:19.000 We live in an age of technology where we have cars that drive itself.

00:51:22.000 We have all these types of things like, how are we so far behind on issues that are...

00:51:28.000 Oh, bro, no.

00:51:29.000 I pulled the video up.

00:51:30.000 I told you.

00:51:31.000 Look at this video.

00:51:32.000 It's unbelievable.

00:51:33.000 Check this out, guys.

00:51:35.000 Yeah.

00:51:35.000 Is that what you saw?

00:51:37.000 Yeah, this is what I saw.

00:51:38.000 Look at this.

00:51:40.000 Oh, shoot.

00:51:41.000 Actually, there are little sheds outside.

00:51:44.000 You could do this to your pool or whatever.

00:51:47.000 It's little fire suppression sheds.

00:51:50.000 That's so cool.

00:51:52.000 That's preparation.

00:51:53.000 You know what I was thinking about?

00:51:55.000 Japan was like, I remember World War II. That's not happening again. 0.97

00:51:59.000 I saw a picture of a pool.

00:52:01.000 Everything's burned around it.

00:52:02.000 And I'm like, what if you, of your own volition, built a PVC pipe?

00:52:09.000 That went up and ran, not attached, don't need a permit, ran along the roof of your building with sprinklers, and then...

00:52:17.000 You can run the pipe right into your pool and turn the pump on.

00:52:20.000 They have something like this.

00:52:21.000 Yeah, there are people.

00:52:22.000 I mean, if you look this one up, I'm pretty sure people were talking about getting one of those pumps that connect to your pool because you literally have whatever it is, 50, 60 gallons of water, you could use immediately.

00:52:30.000 It's right there.

00:52:31.000 It's like 5,000 or something.

00:52:32.000 Whatever it is.

00:52:32.000 I don't know.

00:52:32.000 I'm really bad with numbers.

00:52:33.000 I will say that...

00:52:35.000 Well, you guys use metric up there.

00:52:36.000 Yeah, it's true.

00:52:37.000 So what's a gallon?

00:52:38.000 In California, I'm not so sure what they would do, if that would even be legal because if you catch rainwater...

00:52:45.000 And you put it into a tank, they'll throw you in jail over that.

00:52:49.000 Yes, but my point is, I can't be real.

00:52:52.000 No, 100%.

00:52:53.000 Yeah, catching rainwater is illegal in a lot of urban places.

00:52:58.000 Illegal, why?

00:52:59.000 Because you're taking away from the water that goes back into the water table.

00:53:04.000 Yeah, there are other more technical reasons, because I remember we had this issue in Jersey.

00:53:10.000 I was talking to someone about it, and they said it's not just that you're taking the water away.

00:53:14.000 It's something else.

00:53:15.000 It's something like the combined retention of water by a certain amount of people can actually create a catastrophic release of water or something like that.

00:53:25.000 So they're like, no one cares about one person doing it.

00:53:27.000 They care if literally everybody retained 3,000 gallons of water all at once or something.

00:53:32.000 But I'm saying build a PVC system that's just literally pipes you don't attach, you never do anything with.

00:53:38.000 You've never taken any action.

00:53:40.000 If a wildfire starts, you just attach the pipes and turn the sprinkles out above your house to try and prevent the fire.

00:53:46.000 This is the type of stuff that if, like, I'm the government and I know the highest risk of safety, and like you said, it happened six years ago, then this is what I'm going to spend all my resources on, is to make sure all these homes have that or have some sort of access to water in a case of emergency like this.

00:54:02.000 Because you know this is going to happen again, right?

00:54:04.000 So what are we going to do for the next one?

00:54:06.000 We should have been thinking about that.

00:54:08.000 This is actually a crazy thing when you think about it.

00:54:10.000 I mean, all of these houses had plumbing.

00:54:12.000 All of these houses had access to water.

00:54:14.000 And I'm just like, what if you decentralized firefighting and every house had just like three sprinklers on their roofs that when the fire breaks, every house just sprays itself with a little bit of water.

00:54:26.000 That stops the flow in key areas and the fire doesn't burn other areas.

00:54:30.000 The amount of water you'd need is minimal.

00:54:32.000 Yeah, there's people a lot smarter than all of us in this room that can probably figure out technology Would make a huge difference.

00:54:39.000 Like I said, I mean, we have self-driving cars now.

00:54:41.000 Like, how do we not have a better way to protect us from the most basic element, which is fire?

00:54:46.000 And self-driving cars are common now.

00:54:48.000 Yeah.

00:54:48.000 Like, Tesla's one of the highest, like, they sell more cars.

00:54:52.000 I don't think a Cybertruck would burn.

00:54:53.000 No.

00:54:53.000 Yeah, no.

00:54:54.000 Yeah, it's good for bombs and explosions.

00:54:57.000 All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's time.

00:54:59.000 Let's talk about this story from Reuters.

00:55:01.000 Nice.

00:55:01.000 Trump says he will create the external revenue service to collect revenue from foreign sources.

00:55:07.000 Now, I'm torn on this because I like the idea of America getting paid what is due, but he's creating another IRS. I don't know if I want to be in that.

00:55:18.000 This seems like a troll to me.

00:55:20.000 Right?

00:55:20.000 This is just like, this is funny.

00:55:22.000 How do you have any jurisdiction over other countries?

00:55:24.000 Obviously, you know, you have tariffs and all these things, but you're like, you're going to go after other countries and say you owe us tax money?

00:55:30.000 Well, I mean, I guess it wouldn't be the same as the IRS. Like, you don't dispatch guys with guns, although the U.S. does.

00:55:35.000 That's what we have.

00:55:36.000 Right?

00:55:36.000 I think it's, if the Internal Revenue Service would, what it would do realistically, keep records and logs of debts and then use that as leverage in trade.

00:55:45.000 Can they, uh, make sure...

00:55:46.000 He goes buying U.S. submarines now because of the trade deficit.

00:55:49.000 Can they make sure that they pay their fair share?

00:55:52.000 I mean, I hate the word fair share.

00:55:53.000 Apologies.

00:55:54.000 For, like, NATO and all these other things.

00:55:56.000 That's the plan.

00:55:57.000 Right.

00:55:57.000 Tariffs and trade deals and things like this.

00:55:59.000 I like the tariffs.

00:56:00.000 I do.

00:56:01.000 I'm curious your thoughts, though, the whole tariff situation with Trump.

00:56:05.000 I think tariffs are a weapon you can use.

00:56:09.000 To level the playing field.

00:56:10.000 It's just a negotiating tactic, if you will, essentially what it comes down to.

00:56:13.000 In some cases, tariffs can hurt both you and the people that you've applied tariffs to, obviously.

00:56:18.000 In other cases, it can be enough to go, okay, okay, okay, okay, I hear you, right?

00:56:21.000 So I think a lot of what he does is a little bit blowhard, like he throws things out there, talks a big game, likes to get you riled up, you know, and he does.

00:56:29.000 Like, this is something that gets people riled up.

00:56:31.000 The whole Canada thing, like, do we really think he's trying to make Canada the 51st state?

00:56:35.000 Or was he just mocking Trudeau, right?

00:56:37.000 He's mocking Trudeau.

00:56:38.000 He's insulting the guy.

00:56:39.000 Like, Elon's tweet kills me when he says, Trudeau said that'll never happen.

00:56:43.000 He goes, girl, you ain't even governor of Canada anymore.

00:56:46.000 Like, I think that he says a lot of things that he knows.

00:56:50.000 He's a master at one thing, right?

00:56:52.000 Controlling the narrative.

00:56:53.000 You know, that's one thing I noticed over whatever the 8-10 years is whatever he says on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it.

00:57:00.000 That's what the narrative becomes.

00:57:01.000 So if there's something bad for him, he says something crazy.

00:57:04.000 And he'll just talk about that for three, four days.

00:57:06.000 And then you have all these things.

00:57:08.000 So when you ask somebody, you know, why do you hate Trump?

00:57:11.000 They get to the point where, like, they don't know where to start because they forgot the 17 other things that were in the news the other day.

00:57:17.000 It's a really good point because Trump creates stories that are flashes in the pan.

00:57:23.000 So someone might say to themselves...

00:57:25.000 Trump wants to create another tax revenue generation department.

00:57:28.000 The IRS was bad enough. 0.99

00:57:29.000 This guy's nuts. 0.88

00:57:30.000 It never happens.

00:57:31.000 The story vanishes.

00:57:33.000 And then six months later, like, I don't like the guy.

00:57:35.000 Why?

00:57:35.000 I don't know.

00:57:36.000 Why?

00:57:36.000 Because there is no internal or external revenue service.

00:57:39.000 It never happens.

00:57:40.000 Because you sensationalize every tweet.

00:57:42.000 Like, CNN's entire program was like, I remember it was like Don Lemon every single night.

00:57:47.000 And the whole show was...

00:57:48.000 Trump tweeted this.

00:57:49.000 Can you believe it?

00:57:50.000 I'm like, yes!

00:57:51.000 He tweets this stuff all the time.

00:57:52.000 Why is this news to you?

00:57:54.000 This is not that big a deal, but you allow it to be.

00:57:56.000 And like you said, he can just change the narrative whenever he wants because they bite.

00:58:00.000 And they profit from it, too.

00:58:02.000 They make a lot of money because people tune in to hear them rag on Trump.

00:58:07.000 I think less so now than ever because of the evolution of media and legacy media sort of fading.

00:58:13.000 Yeah, so...

00:58:14.000 In our first segment, we were talking about Jimmy Kimmel.

00:58:16.000 I actually checked.

00:58:17.000 What do you guys think Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are in the key demo?

00:58:19.000 I imagine they're bad.

00:58:21.000 Give me a number.

00:58:23.000 As in thousands, I'm going to go 84,000.

00:58:26.000 What do you think?

00:58:27.000 Key demographic ratings for Jimmy Kimmel, this big show.

00:58:29.000 Per day, like 240,000?

00:58:33.000 I think it's probably around 200,000.

00:58:35.000 It is 221,000.

00:58:37.000 Pretty good guess.

00:58:38.000 We get better ratings than Jimmy Kimmel does.

00:58:41.000 That's crazy to me.

00:58:43.000 But yeah, legacy media is dead.

00:58:44.000 And largely why these things don't faze people anymore is because people are watching shows like this, which we understand humor. 0.81

00:58:53.000 If Trump makes a joke, we don't scream Trump seriously wants to kick dogs.

00:58:57.000 We're like, oh, he was making reference to SNL. You know, we don't take it so seriously.

00:59:01.000 Or if Biden or someone on their team says something, you know, that's supposed to be funny.

00:59:06.000 We're not going to cry about it or whine about it right off the bat.

00:59:09.000 I'd say the thing that upset me, that woke me up, if you will.

00:59:12.000 And upset me the most is you have plenty of stuff that you could criticize Trump for.

00:59:16.000 You got a laundry list of stuff throughout his history, you know, in real estate and all these types of things.

00:59:21.000 Why do you spend so much time twisting something that isn't true, make it look true to make them look bad?

00:59:28.000 Like, for me, I never, I was a believer that he said, you know, Nazis are fine people, okay? 0.93

00:59:34.000 And I believed that for a very long time.

00:59:35.000 Embarrassed to say so.

00:59:37.000 Then someone says, did you watch the video?

00:59:38.000 I said, yeah.

00:59:39.000 No, the whole video.

00:59:40.000 Oh.

00:59:41.000 I never saw the whole video.

00:59:42.000 It was never on my, you know, my news channels.

00:59:44.000 Then I watched it and he said, wait a minute.

00:59:45.000 Literally after he says that, he says, I'm not talking about white supremacists or neonatists.

00:59:50.000 And I'm like, well, what else am I? What else has he done?

00:59:52.000 Then the bloodbath thing.

00:59:53.000 He's talking about the auto industry, clearly a financial term, bloodbath.

00:59:56.000 And they twist that into saying that, you know, there's going to be civil unrest.

00:59:59.000 So like when you do that, you lose the people.

01:00:01.000 You lose people like me in trusting your narratives and what you say.

01:00:04.000 When you say that, well, when Trump's assassination attempt, you know, on CNN says Trump fell at a rally.

01:00:10.000 Like, as though he's old age, he just fell.

01:00:12.000 It's like, why do you...

01:00:14.000 I mean, again, I get why they do it.

01:00:16.000 Clickbait titles work, and this is sort of the industry.

01:00:18.000 Do you really think that it...

01:00:20.000 Well, I feel like maybe there are some people that do it for clickbait, but I really, really feel that there are people that want to do everything they can to discredit him because they just hate him with such a visceral...

01:00:30.000 Yeah, there's a combination of both, for sure.

01:00:32.000 You know, twisting the narrative with clickbait titles works because more people see it, but you're also painting him.

01:00:39.000 Yeah.

01:00:39.000 They painted a picture that, like I said, I, for many years, believed that he said that about, you know, neo-Nazi.

01:00:45.000 They're with you.

01:00:46.000 Yeah.

01:00:46.000 I did not know that until I actually watched the video.

01:00:48.000 And there's a lot of things, I think, you know, with Elon taking over X and, you know, sort of opening that up with the algorithm and community notes.

01:00:56.000 Now, when somebody puts something out that's untrue, maybe not right away, you don't see it, but you see it soon enough where you're like, oh.

01:01:02.000 Okay.

01:01:02.000 Because I've seen things on X sometimes where I'm like, this can't be real, is it?

01:01:06.000 And then the next day I see the same thing and it's got a community note saying it isn't.

01:01:10.000 When you finally watched that video, how soon did you find yourself an encounter with another believer that you were trying to convince?

01:01:18.000 Well, I remember showing it to my wife, right?

01:01:20.000 Because she'd never seen it either.

01:01:22.000 And, you know, she's obviously, you know, been a liberal-minded person her whole life.

01:01:27.000 When she saw it, you know, at first, it's like, you have to listen to it twice.

01:01:30.000 Because you're like, wait a minute.

01:01:30.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:01:31.000 They really did every single media outlet for all these years and continued.

01:01:35.000 I was very disappointed, frankly, when Obama on the campaign trail was repeating that same fight.

01:01:42.000 I was so disappointed.

01:01:44.000 I thought, like, man, you...

01:01:46.000 I mean, I think at that point, he's like, we've lost.

01:01:48.000 We're going to lose.

01:01:49.000 So I'm going to throw everything at the kitchen sink to try to win this.

01:01:52.000 That's a really common thing that I hear from people that...

01:01:55.000 You know, our former progressives or whatever you want to say.

01:01:59.000 There's this guy on this podcast called the All In Podcast.

01:02:02.000 Oh, I know.

01:02:03.000 I know all these guys.

01:02:04.000 Chamath said the same thing.

01:02:05.000 And he was like, you know, he's like, I couldn't believe that Barack Obama was repeating this absolute bald-faced lie.

01:02:14.000 And it's true. 0.56

01:02:15.000 It is rather shocking that something that is such a blatant...

01:02:23.000 Oh, just above the board lie, you know, was was was repeated and repeated as if it was true.

01:02:30.000 Even the current, you know, even even the old man, Joe Biden said, well, the reason that I ran was because Donald Trump said this.

01:02:37.000 It's like he didn't even say that.

01:02:39.000 Well, for so many years, the credibility went unchecked, right?

01:02:42.000 If the news said this, this is what it is.

01:02:43.000 There was no way to find out whether or not that was true or not.

01:02:46.000 You just got what you were told.

01:02:47.000 But now, obviously, with the resources we have and platforms like yours and others who can dissect and question everything in an authentic way.

01:02:55.000 And again, sometimes you're going to get stuff wrong, right?

01:02:57.000 But at least you're having the conversation.

01:02:59.000 You're not just assuming that...

01:03:00.000 Well, they can't twist the way that they did before.

01:03:02.000 And I think there's sort of an anger from legacy media about the idea that...

01:03:06.000 Their grasp and their hold on the narrative has slipped away.

01:03:10.000 I mean, that goes back to the Jimmy Kimmel thing in the beginning where the criticism of California's largely failed policy and policy that contributed to an understaffing of which diversity, equity, inclusion things played a role.

01:03:23.000 And then Jimmy Kimmel plays the game of they...

01:03:26.000 The firefighters aren't white enough.

01:03:27.000 That's always been you're racist and you're far right instead of actually addressing the concerns, which is a weird position for so many people like you saying you're a liberal-minded guy, but they're going to call you far right.

01:03:41.000 Oh, I get both.

01:03:42.000 You know, I finally realized I was in the right place when I started getting called both a libtard and a far-right-wing extremist. 0.99

01:03:48.000 How can I get both?

01:03:49.000 I'm like, oh, you know what?

01:03:50.000 If I'm both, then I'm exactly where I want to be because I don't believe it's as simple as left and right.

01:03:54.000 I kind of hate the terms. 0.91

01:03:56.000 I think it's stupid because how many people actually agree? 0.98

01:03:59.000 If you agree wholeheartedly with everything on the left or everything on the right, you're not doing any critical thinking of your own. 0.99

01:04:05.000 It's impossible.

01:04:06.000 It is not possible to think that...

01:04:08.000 Whatever you're spoon-fed.

01:04:09.000 Oh, where did it come from?

01:04:11.000 A lab?

01:04:12.000 Or did it come from whatever?

01:04:13.000 A bat.

01:04:14.000 Yeah, a bat.

01:04:14.000 So whatever, you know, if you believe 100% of each side, then you're not really doing any critical thinking.

01:04:19.000 So there are some things on both sides that I agree with or disagree with.

01:04:22.000 But I do think there's tendencies.

01:04:25.000 So, you know, I'm a probably liberal-minded guy.

01:04:29.000 We probably agree on a lot of things.

01:04:31.000 And I find myself in the conservative camp.

01:04:34.000 Not because of my political positions, but because of what I think is true.

01:04:38.000 So, for instance, Matt Taibbi does his great report on the Burisma scandal in Ukraine and Joe Biden.

01:04:44.000 And I go, well, I trust Matt Taibbi.

01:04:46.000 He's a great reporter.

01:04:47.000 Just by agreeing with that story, you're conservative.

01:04:51.000 I'm like, this is what I've noticed.

01:04:52.000 I might share something on X or whatever.

01:04:55.000 I share something that is true.

01:04:56.000 There's a video.

01:04:56.000 You can watch the video.

01:04:58.000 And the responses I get are, oh my god, you're sharing something from that guy?

01:05:01.000 I'm like, what's relevant about who?

01:05:04.000 That's not what I do.

01:05:05.000 I don't judge facts and truth based on who said them.

01:05:09.000 Some people I might really despise would say something that is just...

01:05:12.000 True.

01:05:12.000 So you just have to acknowledge that.

01:05:14.000 But we live in a world now where that's how people dismiss you.

01:05:16.000 They dismiss you.

01:05:18.000 You could say something like, the sky is blue, but like, oh yeah, you said it.

01:05:22.000 So, well, we have to just discredit it.

01:05:25.000 Absolutely.

01:05:26.000 Let's jump to this from Fox News.

01:05:27.000 Ladies and gentlemen, here we go.

01:05:29.000 Trump's House GOP allies unveil bill to authorize countries' purchase.

01:05:37.000 American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, says Rep.

01:05:41.000 Andy Ogles, who is leading the bill.

01:05:43.000 It's time to invade Greenland, and we will be greeted as liberators. 0.59

01:05:48.000 Invade with dollars.

01:05:50.000 Bringing American bucks up.

01:05:52.000 Like the Canada one, no way.

01:05:54.000 That's not happening.

01:05:55.000 The Canada one was just opposed, but this one and the Panama Canal one are both legitimate arguments about not just national security, but because of these two strategic locations and the melting ice in the polar in the north, that matters.

01:06:14.000 So, like, that's going to be a trade route, and the United States has been the, you know, global hegemon for the better part of 75 years, some would argue longer, and the United States has made the whole world a safer place because of it.

01:06:30.000 You don't want Russia or China owning or managing those trade routes.

01:06:36.000 Educate me on this.

01:06:38.000 How does he plan?

01:06:39.000 I mean, what is he suggesting here?

01:06:41.000 Are we suggesting just a negotiation, a deal?

01:06:43.000 Or is this like, this is an invasion?

01:06:45.000 No, no, no.

01:06:46.000 It's not going to be a military invasion.

01:06:47.000 If I understand correctly, there's only like 50,000 people up there, right?

01:06:52.000 And the last time, like the U.S. got the U.S. Virgin Islands, because of strategic location compared to the Panama Canal, the U.S. acquired the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million in gold.

01:07:04.000 Oh, I see.

01:07:04.000 So essentially, right, you would pay a government.

01:07:07.000 Like, who owns Greenland now?

01:07:08.000 Well, Greenland wants independence.

01:07:10.000 They're in Denmark, right?

01:07:11.000 So they are technically their own nation, but they are under, like, I forgot, Admiralty or somewhere.

01:07:19.000 Like, Denmark essentially controls their trade and foreign policy, but they are largely autonomous.

01:07:24.000 So I don't know if they have a prime minister or whatever, but their leader was basically like, look, we are Greenlandic and we want to be independent from Denmark.

01:07:31.000 Let's talk to Trump.

01:07:32.000 They're basically saying, look, Donald Trump goes to them and says, I will give you nothing.

01:07:38.000 But we will open up gas leases.

01:07:40.000 We will open up construction for hotels.

01:07:43.000 We will improve your airport.

01:07:45.000 The amount of money you will generate in taxes and jobs will be estimated at $5 billion in year one.

01:07:49.000 Then they're going to go, we got it.

01:07:51.000 People of Greenland will be rich.

01:07:54.000 Win-win.

01:07:55.000 And it doesn't actually have to be a United States territory.

01:08:00.000 The U.S. just has to have actual influence over it.

01:08:04.000 We already have a military base there.

01:08:06.000 And it might be as simple as Trump is saying he wants Greenland, but what he ends up getting is expanded military access and oil leases.

01:08:15.000 And then that's it.

01:08:16.000 There's no actual territorial anything.

01:08:18.000 I mean, when the UK and Western Europe become super authoritarian...

01:08:22.000 And welcome there in the year 2050, we might need Greenland to have a base there to stop them from invading us.

01:08:29.000 Well, there's already a base there.

01:08:30.000 I'm just saying it's good to have a base there, but the Western Europe, I'm just saying, I'm talking Ian style.

01:08:36.000 Western Europe, watch out for them. 0.98

01:08:38.000 There is one reason Donald Trump wants Greenland.

01:08:40.000 Do you guys know what that is?

01:08:42.000 He likes ice.

01:08:43.000 Why is it Greenland and Panama?

01:08:46.000 Well, because of the trade routes.

01:08:49.000 Shipping lanes.

01:08:51.000 Greenland is control of the Northwest Passage and Panama, of course, the canal.

01:08:55.000 Otherwise, you've got to go around, what is it, Cape Horn or whatever?

01:08:57.000 I don't know.

01:08:58.000 All the way down to South America.

01:09:00.000 Holy moly.

01:09:00.000 So, Trump is basically saying, we want to control the global shipping lanes in these areas, which will make us dominant on the world stage.

01:09:08.000 Would you guys rather, Greenland or Panama?

01:09:11.000 Easy answer.

01:09:12.000 Panama.

01:09:12.000 I feel like, yeah.

01:09:14.000 Because of Russia. 0.93

01:09:16.000 Greenland.

01:09:16.000 Because of Russia, I think it is.

01:09:18.000 I think Greenland is probably the one because of Russia and China because of proximity to Russia as well.

01:09:23.000 Panama gives us the canal.

01:09:25.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:25.000 Very, very powerful.

01:09:26.000 But Greenland gives us the upcoming Northwest Passage as well as the oil and gas leases.

01:09:32.000 Yeah.

01:09:33.000 And I just like the cold north.

01:09:35.000 So like vacationing in Nook sounds really fun.

01:09:39.000 Yeah.

01:09:40.000 Those photos of those.

01:09:41.000 Someone wants to wear a big jacket.

01:09:42.000 I went to Barrow, Alaska.

01:09:44.000 Yeah.

01:09:45.000 They renamed it to Utqiagvik.

01:09:47.000 What?

01:09:48.000 Yeah, Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost city.

01:09:49.000 And they named it what?

01:09:51.000 Utqiagvik.

01:09:52.000 Okay, cool.

01:09:53.000 Yeah.

01:09:53.000 Probably saying it wrong, but it's because while the city is largely like American white background, there are indigenous there.

01:10:00.000 And I think they said something like 72 activists went to city council.

01:10:05.000 Change the name.

01:10:06.000 No one voted.

01:10:07.000 No one else.

01:10:08.000 So most people, they were like, it's Barrow.

01:10:11.000 But now it's legally Ukiatvik.

01:10:13.000 How does Alaska have activists?

01:10:15.000 They need to get off the internet.

01:10:17.000 I don't know.

01:10:18.000 I mean, good for them.

01:10:19.000 They voted.

01:10:20.000 Elections have consequences.

01:10:21.000 That's true.

01:10:23.000 We need to get out more often.

01:10:24.000 Let's go, team.

01:10:25.000 But there was this story.

01:10:26.000 I don't know if...

01:10:27.000 Let me see if I can figure out where I have this pulled up.

01:10:29.000 Where they're...

01:10:30.000 It's really funny, actually.

01:10:31.000 Here we go.

01:10:33.000 Pete Hegseth confronted about seizing other countries.

01:10:36.000 That lady's terrible. 1.00

01:10:38.000 This is hilarious. 1.00

01:10:39.000 Meezy Hirano's garbage. 0.99

01:10:40.000 Yes, big time. 0.97

01:10:41.000 Our allies in recent weeks refusing to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal and threatening to make Canada the 51st state.

01:10:54.000 Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force?

01:11:03.000 Or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?

01:11:08.000 Senator, I will emphasize that President Trump received 77 million votes to be the lawful commander-in-chief of this country.

01:11:14.000 We're not talking about the election.

01:11:15.000 My question is, would you use our military to take over Greenland or...

01:11:24.000 An ally of Denmark.

01:11:28.000 Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand.

01:11:32.000 And so I would never in this public forum give one way or another what orders the president would give me in any context.

01:11:39.000 That sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland.

01:11:45.000 These are not smart people.

01:11:46.000 These are gotcha.

01:11:47.000 This happens both ways, right?

01:11:49.000 The gotcha questions.

01:11:50.000 This is so much political theater.

01:11:52.000 These things, they drive me nuts because it's just full of baloney.

01:11:55.000 You know what I mean?

01:11:55.000 Like, you see it on both sides when they do this.

01:11:57.000 They're just literally trying to get him to say something that they have this soundbite on that he's like.

01:12:01.000 And then the news articles are all like, he wants to invade Greenland.

01:12:05.000 Yep.

01:12:05.000 That's what they're going to do.

01:12:07.000 And Pete Exeth can't answer that question at all.

01:12:10.000 You can't.

01:12:11.000 Because you have the correct responses for anybody who's serving a commander-in-chief.

01:12:15.000 I am legally required to abide by all lawful orders of the president.

01:12:19.000 And then they're going to go, aha, you admit it.

01:12:21.000 You would invade Greenland.

01:12:22.000 And it's like, I can't...

01:12:24.000 Well, he's a secretary of defense.

01:12:26.000 Defense, right?

01:12:27.000 Yeah.

01:12:27.000 So he's not...

01:12:28.000 I don't think that's a military role, but...

01:12:30.000 Generally speaking, I serve at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief to act in any lawful way.

01:12:36.000 I think that's what he was getting to when she interrupted him.

01:12:37.000 He was going to go there, yeah.

01:12:38.000 He was saying, you know, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump to make the decisions, and if he gives me a decision to make, I'll make it.

01:12:45.000 She cut him off because she wanted the simple answer, like, yep, I can't wait to get Greenland.

01:12:49.000 All these hearings are a bunch of BS. It's just, I don't know if they solve anything.

01:12:54.000 They don't.

01:12:54.000 It's political theater.

01:12:56.000 I'm so over political theater.

01:12:57.000 Yeah, it's terrible.

01:12:59.000 TV ruined it.

01:13:00.000 Well, and also, you know, a lot of these congressmen who want longevity because there are no term limits, they can be there for 20, 30 years, they want to make a name for themselves, right?

01:13:08.000 So AOC wants her moment.

01:13:10.000 She wants her fiery moment where she gets the guy, like, you know, you can't handle the truth.

01:13:14.000 She needs that moment to fuel, you know, her name, her brand, all these types of things. 0.91

01:13:19.000 This is what they all do.

01:13:20.000 How do they stay in power?

01:13:21.000 By, you know, elevating their names.

01:13:23.000 I think you've actually said something that would make me consider being in Congress.

01:13:28.000 I would love to sit there.

01:13:30.000 And just like, how much time do I have to question the witness?

01:13:33.000 You said five minutes?

01:13:34.000 You, sir, want the truth, but you can't handle the truth!

01:13:38.000 Now let me...

01:13:38.000 I would just start monologuing, making no sense whatsoever, but it would look really cool on camera.

01:13:43.000 And then I would just be like, look at this dramatic...

01:13:45.000 I'd edit music into it.

01:13:47.000 I would waste everyone's time.

01:13:49.000 That sounds truly fun.

01:13:51.000 Then I would never get re-elected again and everyone would be disappointed.

01:13:53.000 No, you might get re-elected again.

01:13:54.000 You're going to be like a Matt Gaetz style.

01:13:55.000 When you're going to come with gotcha questions, you've got to come with better ones than that.

01:13:59.000 Like the one when Ted Cruz, I think it was, with the judge.

01:14:05.000 And he just asked her the simple question.

01:14:07.000 What is a woman? 1.00

01:14:08.000 Ketaji Brown-Jackson.

01:14:10.000 Yeah, Ketaji Brown-Jackson.

01:14:10.000 I'm not a biologist.

01:14:11.000 He just said, like, I'm not a biologist.

01:14:13.000 He knew that.

01:14:14.000 I cannot answer that question, which is, like, a pretty simple question, is what is the definition of a word?

01:14:20.000 You know, and there, like, his goal was obvious.

01:14:22.000 Like, he knew what was going to happen.

01:14:23.000 He's going to put her back up against the wall because she has to appease, like, a certain faction of progressive people who don't want her to say what's true.

01:14:32.000 You know, those are the ones that work, and they create those short soundbites.

01:14:36.000 This one, she couldn't even get it out well.

01:14:38.000 Like, it took her forever to sort of get the sentence out.

01:14:40.000 Oh, but let's look at this one.

01:14:41.000 This one's from The Wrap.

01:14:44.000 Elizabeth Warren slams Pete Hegseth for refusing to meet with her about his record on women.

01:14:48.000 And so in this back and forth, I don't really care about the win in combat for this context.

01:14:52.000 It's this video right here.

01:14:54.000 This is where the conversation went.

01:14:56.000 Listen to this.

01:14:57.000 In other words, you're quite sure.

01:15:01.000 That every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years?

01:15:07.000 You're not willing to make that same pledge?

01:15:10.000 I'm not a general, Senator.

01:15:14.000 You'll be the one, let us just be clear, in charge of the generals.

01:15:20.000 Oh, that was miserably embarrassing.

01:15:24.000 I am not a general.

01:15:26.000 But he's right.

01:15:28.000 The argument being made...

01:15:29.000 By a lot of activists, I agree with this, is that, and I think Elon Musk and Vivek were talking about it, if you're a general, you should not be allowed to go and work in the private sector, military-industrial companies for at least 10 years.

01:15:42.000 So she's trying to play that up.

01:15:43.000 He's like, but I'm not a general.

01:15:45.000 And then everyone laughs at her.

01:15:47.000 This is the degree of preparedness we can expect.

01:15:52.000 They're not sending their best.

01:15:54.000 I don't think that it's...

01:15:56.000 I mean, it's not particularly controversial for your average American to be like, yeah, you know, the Secretary of Defense shouldn't get out of the Office of SecDef and then go right to Raytheon.

01:16:08.000 It seems like that is something that all Americans agree with.

01:16:11.000 Yeah.

01:16:11.000 I mean, I can't imagine the argument against it.

01:16:14.000 Yeah.

01:16:14.000 Same thing.

01:16:14.000 And it's, you know, the average American agrees in the banking industry, too.

01:16:20.000 You don't want whoever's running the Fed to go to the board of Goldman.

01:16:24.000 You know, or go to, you know, the board of Wells Fargo or whatever.

01:16:28.000 Wells Fargo might not even have a board.

01:16:31.000 But either way, point being, Citibank, you don't want to have people in an industry that is supposed to be regulating.

01:16:39.000 Or you don't want people in government that is supposed to be regulating an industry going into that industry when they get out of their job.

01:16:46.000 Yeah, nobody likes the fact that our politicians are beholden to who pays their bills.

01:16:50.000 Like, one example I can give you, when I was in California, we were trying to pass a legislation for online poker there, and I met with, like, we had this little party, met with, like, all these Republicans, right?

01:17:00.000 And to a man, this is when Sheldon Adelson was still alive, and he was super anti-online poker, didn't want anything to do with it.

01:17:06.000 Because he didn't have an in on it.

01:17:08.000 He was behind the times, right?

01:17:10.000 So he basically, he was, you know, paying all, you know, he was spending a lot of money with these politicians and they came up to me and frankly to a man, they all said, listen, we'd love to do it, you know?

01:17:20.000 But Sheldon flat out said, if I say yes on this bill...

01:17:23.000 I'm cut off.

01:17:24.000 That's just how it works.

01:17:26.000 Nobody likes that.

01:17:27.000 It happens all over.

01:17:28.000 But a lot of these guys, their whole job in Congress is raising money.

01:17:33.000 They spend 40 hours a week raising money for their next election.

01:17:35.000 But it is worth noting that the industries or the agencies that are assigned to regulate industries, the people that are the regulators have to understand the industry too.

01:17:49.000 So you end up with this You know, this circular situation where the people that are regulating have to know the industry well enough to make intelligent and comprehensive regulations if it's going to be regulated, but you also don't want them to get out of the business of government, get out of the bureaucracy, and then be like, well, the only thing I know how to do...

01:18:14.000 Is the business that I was regulating.

01:18:16.000 And it's also the business where I can get offered the most money.

01:18:20.000 It becomes...

01:18:21.000 The corruption is almost built in.

01:18:23.000 And I personally, I think the actual answer is to limit what the government can actually regulate.

01:18:30.000 But at the same time, it's at least worth talking about the fact that these things aren't as...

01:18:36.000 It's not as simple as just don't let...

01:18:39.000 Regulators go into the business or don't have people from that business be the regulators.

01:18:43.000 It's actually much simpler.

01:18:45.000 I have the solution.

01:18:47.000 It's that in Congress, we're going to do term limits.

01:18:50.000 Yes, I was going to say that.

01:18:52.000 Eight years, but you just got to wait.

01:18:54.000 You got to wait.

01:18:54.000 Eight years.

01:18:55.000 Senate, eight years.

01:18:57.000 I don't like the six-year term thing, okay?

01:18:59.000 Maybe the Senate gets a little bit longer.

01:19:00.000 I don't know.

01:19:01.000 Maybe it's one term for a senator.

01:19:02.000 Six years.

01:19:03.000 Just not 50. Not 50. And then once your terms are up, to the island.

01:19:08.000 Wait, you gotta go to the island afterwards.

01:19:12.000 Greenland.

01:19:13.000 Greenland.

01:19:14.000 What if they did a good job?

01:19:15.000 And you can't leave ever again.

01:19:18.000 Who's gonna do this job?

01:19:20.000 That's not a good question.

01:19:21.000 To save America, I would.

01:19:23.000 I would help.

01:19:23.000 I would go to the island.

01:19:24.000 Do you really care about your community and want to represent and do right by this country?

01:19:28.000 Because as soon as your terms are up...

01:19:30.000 You go to a far-off community where you will never come back and you will never work for anybody.

01:19:34.000 I'm kidding, by the way.

01:19:35.000 I'm just saying we would all be satisfied with our politicians.

01:19:38.000 When you said term limits, I got excited because so many of these politicians that I met, they all literally said that's all they do.

01:19:44.000 They don't have time to look at actual issues to help the community because they've got to spend all their time and resources on raising money for their next election.

01:19:51.000 We keep spending all this money.

01:19:52.000 I don't understand.

01:19:54.000 I mean, I guess I do understand how you spend a billion dollars.

01:19:58.000 On a campaign, I guess if you're paying Meg Stallion and Beyonce to show up, whatever it is, a billion dollars, it's like all this money that the country needs and the people need, why are you begging us to give you money to run campaigns?

01:20:14.000 It's just so backwards.

01:20:16.000 Let me jump to this one.

01:20:17.000 We brought this up a moment ago.

01:20:18.000 This is from The Wrap.

01:20:18.000 Elizabeth Warren slams Hegseth for refusing to meet with her about his record on women.

01:20:23.000 And ultimately, Hegseth had agreed he would support women in combat roles if confirmed, saying that so long as the standard remains high, he would be okay with it.

01:20:34.000 So Elizabeth Warren basically is grandstanding, saying you don't want women in combat. 1.00

01:20:39.000 Now, why is she doing it? 1.00

01:20:41.000 She's doing it to get a viral clip that her campaign can send out to a bunch of people and say, here's why you should give us money, because I yelled at Pete Hegseth. 0.53

01:20:49.000 Yeah.

01:20:50.000 Right.

01:20:51.000 At one point he said he thought women should not be in combat.

01:20:55.000 One point?

01:20:55.000 He said it like 50 times.

01:20:56.000 Okay, so at 50 points he said that, and now he's reversed his decision to say that he'd be okay with it if they meet the standards that everyone else...

01:21:03.000 And the standards are high.

01:21:05.000 Totally disagree with that.

01:21:07.000 Yeah, I remember you were sort of saying this.

01:21:08.000 I think he disagrees with it too, but he's saying what he legally is required to say.

01:21:12.000 Fair enough.

01:21:13.000 Women shouldn't be in combat roles because men look at women differently. 1.00

01:21:16.000 Psychologically, men are going to defer to women. 1.00

01:21:19.000 Human beings prefer women over men. 0.99

01:21:21.000 That's just something that's built into us.

01:21:24.000 Everybody is nicer to women than they are to men.

01:21:27.000 That's just the way it is.

01:21:30.000 I'm not saying that men are victims because of it.

01:21:32.000 I'm just saying this is reality.

01:21:34.000 And because of that, women and also... 1.00

01:21:37.000 Women are the magic creatures that make babies. 1.00

01:21:40.000 And most of Western society, wealthy societies in particular, don't replace themselves.

01:21:46.000 So no women in combat roles at all. 0.99

01:21:49.000 Yes, I'm going to disagree with that one, just simply on the basis of this.

01:21:52.000 You put a protocol.

01:21:53.000 This is what you need to do to be a Marine, right?

01:21:56.000 If a woman gets through that, just the same one that every other man does, right? 1.00

01:21:59.000 And she wants to be in a combat role, and she can do the job and isn't a liability, I'm okay with that.

01:22:04.000 The psychological aspects that you sort of touched on, I feel like, you know, there could be something there, but at the same time, I feel like, you know, in the military, there's like a brotherhood, right?

01:22:12.000 Yeah.

01:22:13.000 You're there, you know, for you guys.

01:22:14.000 And, you know, even if that were true, I don't think it's fair to say to women who want to do the job, you can't.

01:22:19.000 Because some guys might be affected by it.

01:22:21.000 Life's not fair.

01:22:22.000 I don't care.

01:22:23.000 But the fact of the matter, also, there was a study done by the Marine Corps and all male units performed better than integrated units.

01:22:31.000 All across the board, they performed better in every aspect than integrated units, first of all.

01:22:35.000 And second of all, I forget what my second point was, but at the end of the day...

01:22:42.000 I think that there's nothing wrong with having women in the military. 1.00

01:22:44.000 There's a ton of jobs they can do.

01:22:46.000 They just don't need to be in combat.

01:22:49.000 I think the issue with combat is that once you agree women can and should be in combat, then women can and should be drafted.

01:22:57.000 And I'm for it because, take a look at this, look how fat everybody is.

01:23:03.000 Women's average height is 5'4", and they weigh 170 pounds. 1.00

01:23:08.000 Don't get me wrong, guys are 5'8".

01:23:11.000 And weigh 200 pounds.

01:23:13.000 Y'all need basic training.

01:23:15.000 Yeah.

01:23:15.000 Bring them to camp.

01:23:16.000 Make them crawl around in the mud. 0.96

01:23:18.000 They eat proper food and they work out and they got to do 50 push-ups because y'all are fat.

01:23:22.000 One quick thing to the point.

01:23:24.000 I was saying that you were saying...

01:23:27.000 Not the babymakers.

01:23:28.000 You were talking about standards.

01:23:30.000 It's also been shown that when standards are high and women continue to not meet the standards, the upper NCOs and brass start looking at the people that are actually training them and saying, what's wrong?

01:23:43.000 Why are no women meeting the standards? 1.00

01:23:45.000 And they end up lowering the standards.

01:23:46.000 That should never happen.

01:23:48.000 But that's part of human psychology.

01:23:50.000 That's essentially what DEI does, right?

01:23:53.000 The whole concept of it is the only way to...

01:23:55.000 The equation is simple, right?

01:23:56.000 Let's say you want to get the 100 best doctors, right?

01:23:58.000 And five of them are people of color, okay?

01:24:01.000 Well, you want to get it to 20. Well, how do you do that, right?

01:24:04.000 Well, you have to...

01:24:05.000 You have to look deeper into the list to get there.

01:24:08.000 So what you've essentially done is you've not taken the top 100. You've taken some of the top 150 or 60. You've skipped over.

01:24:15.000 You've skipped over other people who...

01:24:17.000 I've got to say this.

01:24:18.000 In all seriousness about women in combat, the stories I've heard from my friends who are veterans and have gone through basic training about how women are treated have nothing to do with the standards.

01:24:27.000 So what I've heard is standards might be the same, but they're still not going to hold the women at an individual level to those standards. 1.00

01:24:33.000 10,000%.

01:24:34.000 I'm just going to ask Raymond, who actually is a veteran, when you were in basic training, were there women?

01:24:41.000 Negative.

01:24:42.000 You had no women? 1.00

01:24:42.000 I was in infantry unit. 1.00

01:24:44.000 Oh, interesting.

01:24:46.000 No women, zero. 1.00

01:24:47.000 Back in the day...

01:24:48.000 Do you know anybody who did basic with women? 0.98

01:24:51.000 No, I don't know any pugs.

01:24:53.000 Really?

01:24:54.000 So I want to defer to you first.

01:24:56.000 No, I don't, sir.

01:24:56.000 Because my story is just hearsay.

01:24:58.000 I've spent time around a few different military bases.

01:25:01.000 I briefly lived on one with family, very briefly.

01:25:04.000 And I have family who are veterans.

01:25:07.000 What I heard is that, from a bunch of different guys, is that despite the fact the women were supposed to have the same standards, they would cry.

01:25:14.000 And the commanding officers would say, just stop.

01:25:18.000 Just go.

01:25:18.000 So that can't happen, right?

01:25:20.000 So here's what I'm thinking, though.

01:25:23.000 In a utopian world, I think it should be as simple as this.

01:25:25.000 Here's the standard.

01:25:26.000 If you qualify, you're in.

01:25:28.000 Regardless of whether you're a man or woman.

01:25:30.000 It should be that, right?

01:25:31.000 If there are steps being taken to make it easier for one sex or the other...

01:25:37.000 It risks the lives of the other combatants and stuff like that, then obviously not.

01:25:41.000 But the issue is that it's granular.

01:25:43.000 Yeah, I don't think that you can avoid it either.

01:25:46.000 We're going to say everyone's got to do 100 push-ups.

01:25:49.000 And what's going to happen is, in an individual level...

01:25:52.000 The guy does 100, the woman does 70, complains, and the guy in charge goes, it's fine, I'll just put that on. 0.83

01:25:58.000 See, that shouldn't happen.

01:25:59.000 You can't avoid that.

01:26:01.000 How do you stop that?

01:26:02.000 You can't.

01:26:03.000 No, no.

01:26:03.000 Did she do 100 or not?

01:26:04.000 Did she do 100? 0.76

01:26:05.000 The reality is, that is human nature.

01:26:09.000 Like I said earlier, human beings prefer women to men. 0.98

01:26:13.000 That's just the way we are.

01:26:14.000 And it's built into us because women make babies. 1.00

01:26:19.000 That's part of DNA. Real quick.

01:26:21.000 I want to throw it to the super chat because I am not a veteran.

01:26:24.000 So me telling a story based on hearsay about people's experience in basic training with women.

01:26:28.000 I'm curious for you guys to chat or super chat your experiences in basic training with women and men.

01:26:35.000 And tell me I'm wrong.

01:26:36.000 Tell me I'm wrong.

01:26:37.000 I don't want to just give hearsay as fact, right?

01:26:39.000 I never did women in boot camp. 1.00

01:26:41.000 It's anecdotally, right?

01:26:42.000 People's experience is their perception of the experience.

01:26:45.000 It might not necessarily even be true, right?

01:26:46.000 How much do we put into sort of limited data like that, right?

01:26:51.000 In the Slack, I put in the link to the piece where they say that integrated units perform worse than all-male.

01:26:57.000 I read that.

01:26:58.000 Someone sent me a link to it.

01:27:00.000 But anyway, so go ahead.

01:27:02.000 Sorry.

01:27:03.000 No, that's all, guys.

01:27:03.000 We helped out.

01:27:06.000 Officers are terrible at what they do.

01:27:08.000 They go to officer training school and they come into the Fleet Marine Force and they can't hump and they can't run and they can't hike and we still let them be in charge of us.

01:27:17.000 Even though they're falling behind, we gotta help them out.

01:27:19.000 Or we let fat bodies, you know, the striped people, if you guys know what I'm talking about, you had striped splatoons, they would have to do another recourse over again, go through boot camp again. 1.00

01:27:30.000 So we give standards, we let people go all the time, but I agree with you, Daniel.

01:27:34.000 If we just said, there's a limit, stop it, done, and if everyone listened to that, it'd be great.

01:27:40.000 I'm gonna pause and just say...

01:27:42.000 I want women in combat. 1.00

01:27:44.000 I want Democrats to champion women in combat. 0.99

01:27:47.000 And then I want Democrats to confirm that women will be forced to sign up for selective service because it is the fastest way to get the entire female demographic in this country to vote Republican. 0.75

01:27:57.000 I mean, yeah, if we're going to do that, then I mean, I love women. 1.00

01:28:01.000 I don't want them to die.

01:28:02.000 But if they want their rights, equal rights, man, got to do it.

01:28:05.000 Republicans are traditionalist, largely.

01:28:08.000 And so there's many prominent conservatives and Republicans who are saying women.

01:28:12.000 Don't fight.

01:28:13.000 I don't care about standards.

01:28:14.000 I don't care what you think.

01:28:15.000 Women are not fighters. 1.00

01:28:16.000 Men should be fighters.

01:28:18.000 Democrats are saying women are equal and can fight if they want to. 0.74

01:28:21.000 And so this is actually true.

01:28:23.000 The push for women to sign up for the draft in the U.S. was Democrats, not Republicans. 0.99

01:28:27.000 Republicans took moral issue with it.

01:28:29.000 Democrats think it's a moral issue not to do it.

01:28:31.000 And young women across the country lost their minds on TikTok screaming, I am not doing this.

01:28:37.000 I did not vote for this.

01:28:39.000 So let's, ladies, come on down. 1.00

01:28:41.000 Men.

01:28:42.000 In the Republican Party, you want to make sure that you can be comfortable, that you can live your beautiful life and never have to raise a weapon.

01:28:49.000 And Democrats want you on the front lines.

01:28:51.000 And I think the sane position should be simply this.

01:28:53.000 It's up to you.

01:28:55.000 If you want to be in combat and you can handle the rigorous training and you're going to be a good asset, I'm all for it.

01:29:02.000 But again, obviously not at any...

01:29:07.000 Lowering of any bars.

01:29:09.000 They tried that in the Rangers, and the Rangers weren't graduating women, and so they started looking at the Ranger units.

01:29:17.000 Why aren't you graduating?

01:29:18.000 That's essentially what DEI is, right?

01:29:20.000 When DEI gets involved, it's like, okay, well, how do we get a better demographic?

01:29:24.000 I think because of human psychology, we can't get one without the other.

01:29:27.000 No, no, no, why not?

01:29:28.000 Because of law.

01:29:29.000 Yeah, so what ends up happening is...

01:29:31.000 Fair.

01:29:32.000 The reason why Hegseth is saying he supports women in combat is that it is a 1964 Civil Rights Act legal requirement for him to do so.

01:29:40.000 So what happens then is women will file a lawsuit saying the standards are discriminatory. 1.00

01:29:45.000 You can see from the results women aren't passing. 1.00

01:29:49.000 If it's going to be gender neutral, it has to be a standard that applies to men and women, not just men. 0.80

01:29:54.000 That's all nonsense.

01:29:55.000 And that's what happens.

01:29:56.000 That's all nonsense.

01:29:58.000 I agree.

01:29:58.000 That's the danger.

01:29:59.000 That's the dangerous aspect of it where it sounds in theory like a nice thing.

01:30:03.000 Well, let's be inclusive.

01:30:04.000 Let's be diverse.

01:30:04.000 Let's do all that.

01:30:05.000 Okay, but yeah, when it comes to war, people's lives are on the line.

01:30:09.000 So you want to make sure that everybody there got in the same way and passed the same tests and are equally qualified.

01:30:15.000 And again, I don't care if they're male or female.

01:30:17.000 It's irrelevant to me as long as they can do the job.

01:30:19.000 But any sort of, you know, manipulating the standards in order to get this exact demographic you want is literally...

01:30:28.000 Putting people's lives at risk.

01:30:29.000 Every time you make standards that one group consistently misses, there will be people that will make...

01:30:39.000 Accommodations, so that way that group passes.

01:30:41.000 That's what happened with George Bush's No Child Left Behind.

01:30:46.000 No Child Left Behind was instituted, and because people weren't graduating, teachers just started saying, okay, push them on through, push them on through.

01:30:53.000 And now, like, 30% of graduating students can't read at all.

01:30:57.000 I'd say there's a loud pushback, though, against the whole process.

01:31:00.000 Like, when you look at, say, for example, school admissions, right, with the Asian community, right?

01:31:04.000 If you're an Asian male and you want to get into an Ivy League school, the road to get there is... 0.96

01:31:07.000 Almost impossible in comparison to somebody, you know, maybe a person of color or whatever when the standards are different, right?

01:31:12.000 So there's been a big pushback where they've changed rules and stuff like that.

01:31:17.000 They can't do that anymore.

01:31:18.000 The results in the military are dead people.

01:31:20.000 Right.

01:31:21.000 Because you have to have people...

01:31:23.000 Yeah, it's far more dramatic than just, oh, you know, Johnny down there doesn't read good.

01:31:28.000 You know what I mean?

01:31:28.000 It's like he graduates or whatever, and he doesn't read as well as other people that graduated.

01:31:33.000 Well, they just kind of shoved him through to get him out the door. 0.98

01:31:35.000 It sucks for him.

01:31:36.000 Then there should be some standardized rules in terms of, like, the bar. 0.98

01:31:41.000 And it's as simple as this.

01:31:42.000 If you don't hit each and every one that's documented...

01:31:44.000 You're not in.

01:31:45.000 If you do, you're in.

01:31:46.000 That's what's supposed to happen with No Child Left Behind.

01:31:50.000 The point of No Child Left Behind was educate all children.

01:31:54.000 But because people are different and because all the kids have different aptitudes, which is totally ignored, they just start shoving people through.

01:32:02.000 And that's part of human beings.

01:32:05.000 We are just people that are all different and we all have different abilities and you can't make the Unable, able.

01:32:15.000 So what ends up happening is you start letting the unable go do the stuff that the able people are.

01:32:20.000 And in a combat situation, that means more deaths, and it also means the United States losing more engagements, and if you lose too many engagements, you lose wars.

01:32:30.000 And if you can't read very well...

01:32:34.000 You're allowed to join the military.

01:32:36.000 The Marine Corps, if you can shoot rifles, if you can use the mortar rounds, if you can shoot.50 cal, if you can drive a tank, that's great.

01:32:42.000 We don't need you to read. 0.98

01:32:43.000 We need you to be effective and a killer.

01:32:45.000 And then you get a free college when you're done.

01:32:46.000 And again, I don't have a problem with women in the military. 1.00

01:32:50.000 Just combat.

01:32:51.000 That's it.

01:32:52.000 Yes.

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01:33:15.000 It's a lot of fun.

01:33:16.000 I'm going to start with two newer Super Chats because they're relevant to the conversation.

01:33:20.000 Herbal Patriot says, yes, you're correct, Tim.

01:33:22.000 When I was in BCT Army, 2003, it was disgusting some of the women being passed. 1.00

01:33:28.000 Hauled by TRK during marches because they can't hold their own.

01:33:33.000 We are too weak biologically.

01:33:35.000 Another says, military here, Tim is right. 0.52

01:33:37.000 Women are not held to the same standard, even in non-combat roles. 0.84

01:33:40.000 They're a liability and also a new vector for strife and conflict.

01:33:46.000 They're more likely to crack under pressure, break from the stress.

01:33:50.000 What I've heard from a handful of different people who were in basic training was that women would cry. 0.91

01:33:57.000 They'd say, I can't do it.

01:33:58.000 And there were legal requirements to give them showers and bathroom breaks because of hygiene issues women have that men don't. 1.00

01:34:04.000 Which, no matter what you do, you can say, 50 push-ups is 50 push-ups.

01:34:10.000 And then they say...

01:34:11.000 I have a hygiene issue.

01:34:13.000 A man does not. 1.00

01:34:13.000 And they're legally required to provide that relief. 1.00

01:34:16.000 So where guys crawl through the mud and don't get a shower and wear the dirty clothes the next day, they can't do that for women because of potential infections and other things like that.

01:34:24.000 Yeah.

01:34:25.000 And, you know, to bring up, you know, like I said, I'm in a utopian world.

01:34:28.000 Maybe, you know, maybe I'm naive in terms of what's possible because there is the added aspect of like you said, like if you're at combat and a woman goes through a menstrual cycle, which they do like every 30 days, their hormone imbalance could lead to like sort of being like, I mean, I've been around like it affects you, you know, hormonally and physically and all these types of things.

01:34:46.000 So like if you're in Afghanistan, you know, and you're in this military.

01:34:51.000 Combat situation and you have a very bad menstrual cycle, like, what then?

01:34:55.000 Here's another problem for you.

01:34:57.000 Yeah.

01:34:57.000 If a man is in the military, let me ask you guys.

01:35:00.000 Yes, sir.

01:35:00.000 Good, sir.

01:35:01.000 If you were in the military and your girlfriend got pregnant, what would your chain of command say to you?

01:35:07.000 If my girlfriend got pregnant, they'd be like, okay, cool, she's back at the rear. 1.00

01:35:11.000 If I'm out in the field, then...

01:35:14.000 No, like, she's a civilian.

01:35:15.000 That's what I mean.

01:35:16.000 Out in the rear.

01:35:17.000 That's what I mean.

01:35:17.000 The rear is back at home.

01:35:18.000 I'm sorry.

01:35:19.000 Back at home.

01:35:19.000 She's back at home and I'm out in the...

01:35:21.000 Yeah, they don't care, right?

01:35:22.000 No, they don't give an F. What would happen if a female infantry... 1.00

01:35:24.000 Oh, that's a big...

01:35:25.000 That's a difference.

01:35:26.000 That's a huge difference.

01:35:26.000 I mean, I don't know exactly.

01:35:27.000 I'm not a female Marine or a service member, but...

01:35:30.000 She can't fight. 0.93

01:35:30.000 She's out of commission. 0.93

01:35:31.000 She cannot.

01:35:32.000 Now, hold on.

01:35:33.000 She cannot.

01:35:34.000 That's a problem.

01:35:35.000 That's sexual discrimination. 0.70

01:35:37.000 If a man is having a child, they say congratulations. 0.98

01:35:39.000 If he gets married, he gets a pay bump, and he can live off-base in housing.

01:35:43.000 But if a woman gets pregnant, all of a sudden, she's a liability. 1.00

01:35:45.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:35:46.000 Now we've got problems.

01:35:47.000 In the Air Force, she gets a new uniform, apparently, that fits her for the last couple years ago, remember?

01:35:51.000 They gave out the uniform.

01:35:52.000 The issue, I suppose, is combat requires you to be in combat.

01:35:56.000 Yeah, combat requires you to be in combat.

01:35:58.000 If you're a truck driver...

01:35:59.000 A pregnant woman can drive a truck for a certain amount of time, and they can accommodate that. 1.00

01:36:03.000 But there is still an issue that if a man wants to have a child, it's a congratulations, good luck.

01:36:08.000 If a woman does, it's a we're taking you out, you're out of commission. 1.00

01:36:11.000 I mean, yeah, that's an argument to your case.

01:36:12.000 Like I said, you know, if a woman is simply not... 1.00

01:36:15.000 You know, physically unable to be at their best, you know, the entire time and they face challenges that us men were lucky not to, you know, because it's right.

01:36:23.000 I mean, I'm thankful that I don't have to go through because I've seen it.

01:36:26.000 I've seen women go through intense pain and obviously everyone has varying degrees of menstrual cycles without that. 0.98

01:36:31.000 This podcast is about menstrual cycles, but but it is, you know, it can be a real issue.

01:36:36.000 So on that alone, you know, you already look at male and female body type as a combatant. 0.66

01:36:42.000 There is potentially liability with one and not the other.

01:36:46.000 Pete brought that up also.

01:36:50.000 This is, I know, a small subject of what we're talking about.

01:36:53.000 But transgender folks and other stuff like that. 0.53

01:36:55.000 That if you're not capable to fight, they take you out.

01:36:59.000 If you're having surgery, if you had a molar, your molar gets taken out, you can't fight, then you're no good to being in the United States military.

01:37:06.000 Let's read some more.

01:37:07.000 We got Robert De La Cruz who says, Screw Kimmel.

01:37:10.000 Simple.

01:37:11.000 No.

01:37:12.000 Al Gailey says, Tim, your problem isn't free trade.

01:37:14.000 Each of the 50 states has free trade with the other 49. No tariffs.

01:37:18.000 Free trade is fine.

01:37:19.000 The problem is other markets are even less free and operate on slave labor and subsidies.

01:37:24.000 Right.

01:37:25.000 So I suppose your argument is once we conquer China and end Chinese slave labor practices and clean up their environment, we can do deals with them. 1.00

01:37:34.000 If we can't do that, then we're competing at an unfair standard and I'm not a fan.

01:37:38.000 Yep.

01:37:40.000 What have we here?

01:37:41.000 Big Cheese says Minnesota judge declared State House District 54 for the DFL, who won by 14 votes.

01:37:47.000 County election clerk admitted to throwing out 20 ballots.

01:37:50.000 Seven of those ballots were for the Republican.

01:37:54.000 Yikes.

01:37:55.000 There was 20 thrown out and seven were Republican?

01:37:57.000 Yeah.

01:37:58.000 Or at least seven were confirmed to be.

01:38:01.000 And what were the other 13?

01:38:02.000 Oh, they don't know?

01:38:04.000 Well, if this person doesn't, we should fact check that.

01:38:07.000 What are we looking up?

01:38:08.000 Because then...

01:38:08.000 They threw up more Democrat ones?

01:38:10.000 Well, I mean, if you're saying 20 were thrown out and seven were Democrats and you're making that case, you're sort of making the opposite case.

01:38:17.000 The Clapper of Cheek says, this is insane.

01:38:19.000 YouTube has been feeding me Negrano poker videos for two weeks.

01:38:22.000 I've been captured by the algorithm.

01:38:24.000 Well, that's great because it means that this video was more likely to be recommended to you because you watch poker.

01:38:31.000 All right.

01:38:32.000 What is this?

01:38:34.000 Horsehead says, Tim, based on your reaction to finding out Americans' average weight, what do you think about doing a deep dive into that as well as exploring long-term solutions?

01:38:42.000 Thanks for covering the UK gangs also.

01:38:45.000 I like to annoy Allison because she always gives me advice on health and then I don't listen.

01:38:51.000 And then later I'll watch a podcast that says what she told me to do and I'll start doing it and she gets so mad. 0.97

01:38:59.000 And then no matter what it is, I'll always just say, Luke told me to do it.

01:39:03.000 So it's like, I'm like, you know what?

01:39:05.000 I got to start getting more sleep.

01:39:06.000 And then she looks at me and she like, you know, rolls her eyes.

01:39:09.000 And I'm like, well, I was talking to Luke and he was saying sleep's really important.

01:39:12.000 Oh, I have to go like, for me, if I give my wife advice on what to do or something like that, there's no chance. 1.00

01:39:18.000 But if Kim Kardashian says she takes this thing, I'm like, oh, well then, yeah, this is great, you know?

01:39:23.000 AI is your friend.

01:39:24.000 Yeah.

01:39:25.000 Let's make an AI video.

01:39:26.000 I mean, I wasn't prepared for this.

01:39:28.000 It was a joke beforehand, but in honor of Allison, we got Luke upside down in the background because he's in distress.

01:39:36.000 Is that why you put him upside down?

01:39:37.000 He's in distress?

01:39:38.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:39:39.000 All right.

01:39:42.000 Okay.

01:39:43.000 Kyle says, Daniel, what do you think about Matisseau last week on OnlyFans saying that you've come around to his side?

01:39:50.000 You were a little unhinged a couple years ago. 0.93

01:39:52.000 Still my goat. 0.87

01:39:53.000 So Mike Mattisow, by the way, he asked me, when he heard I was coming on here, he's like a massive fan.

01:39:57.000 He watches every one of your shows.

01:39:59.000 He's like, I gotta get him out of here.

01:40:00.000 Yeah, he loves it.

01:40:01.000 There's actually a documentary about his life.

01:40:02.000 I figured I'd be okay to plug.

01:40:04.000 It's on Amazon Prime.

01:40:05.000 It's called Mattisow.

01:40:06.000 It just released.

01:40:06.000 And he's very, very open and vulnerable about his position.

01:40:10.000 So as to the claim that Mike Mattisow and I, I think we were never really that far apart.

01:40:15.000 He just buys...

01:40:17.000 Like, every conspiracy theory without – like, he would – here's the thing about Mike, right?

01:40:21.000 He would, like, post an article on X and go, see, I told you so because you read the headline.

01:40:28.000 But if you read the article, it says the exact opposite of what he thinks it says, right?

01:40:32.000 So, like, you didn't read the article.

01:40:33.000 So I still – you know, like, I don't think we were that far apart necessarily.

01:40:38.000 Like I said, I've always had traditional – Old-school, simple, liberal values.

01:40:43.000 Let people do what they want. 0.95

01:40:44.000 You're gay, you want to get married? 0.98

01:40:46.000 Absolutely. 0.93

01:40:47.000 But then the media started lying to everybody.

01:40:49.000 And so what ends up happening is people with these same views that never changed believe things that aren't correct, like the very fine people hoax.

01:40:56.000 And then when you realize, like, wait a minute, they lied, you're instantly right-wing.

01:41:01.000 Yeah, anytime you point that out.

01:41:03.000 Like, I remember, again, specifically the first time it happened, and I was in the bubble when COVID was happening, you know, and if you were Democrat, you thought it came from a bat, and if you're Republican, it came from a lab.

01:41:13.000 And it did come from a lab.

01:41:14.000 Well, I mean, here's the thing.

01:41:15.000 I thought about it, and I'm like, well, wait a minute.

01:41:16.000 I don't know.

01:41:17.000 Does anybody know?

01:41:18.000 Nobody really knows.

01:41:19.000 So why are you racist if you think it came from a lab and you're like righteous if you think it came from a bat?

01:41:25.000 It's just like it was such an obvious example to me of how tribal we are and how depending where you got your news this is what you must think.

01:41:33.000 But it is now I believe the principal belief among government is lab leak.

01:41:38.000 Almost.

01:41:40.000 Assuredly.

01:41:40.000 It seems like very, very likely high percentage.

01:41:42.000 Again, not 100%.

01:41:43.000 Sure.

01:41:43.000 But it seems very, very likely that the only COVID lab in China that happened to be in Wuhan is a block away.

01:41:50.000 Yeah.

01:41:50.000 Or about a thousand miles away.

01:41:52.000 So the meme is, what's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the news?

01:41:56.000 What?

01:41:57.000 Six months.

01:41:58.000 No.

01:41:58.000 Just fair.

01:41:59.000 Fair.

01:42:00.000 Yeah.

01:42:00.000 All right.

01:42:01.000 Let's grab some more.

01:42:03.000 Let's see.

01:42:04.000 Ripper says, have you seen the satellite images?

01:42:06.000 Shows three fires starting at the exact same time.

01:42:09.000 Interesting.

01:42:10.000 No, I didn't see it.

01:42:11.000 There was a big wildfire in September, actually, in California.

01:42:15.000 A bit north, I think.

01:42:17.000 Real quick, do you think every day there's someone new starting a fire down?

01:42:22.000 Yeah, there's a fire...

01:42:22.000 Oh, yeah.

01:42:23.000 Watching Ghost is posted before I came on the show.

01:42:26.000 Like, are they going to burn down L.A. area?

01:42:28.000 Because everyone wants to start fires?

01:42:30.000 I hope not.

01:42:32.000 Because resources are strained, crackpot criminals are feeling free reign.

01:42:38.000 It's terrifying.

01:42:40.000 All right.

01:42:41.000 Let's see.

01:42:41.000 How do you pronounce that?

01:42:42.000 Deadyear says, just wanted to shout out for my birthday.

01:42:46.000 Brandon Ellie, long-time listener, first time sending a super chat, just picked up a bag of Graphene Dream.

01:42:51.000 Have a good night, y'all.

01:42:52.000 Happy birthday, Brandon.

01:42:53.000 Really appreciate you picking up some Graphene Dream.

01:42:55.000 I'm sure Ian does as well.

01:42:57.000 Happy birthday, Brandon.

01:42:59.000 Happy birthday.

01:43:01.000 Josh Berg says, how do you feel about some Americans downloading the TikTok alt red note and deleting Facebook, IG, and X to spite the U.S. government?

01:43:09.000 Just how China doesn't allow Google?

01:43:11.000 Should America ban all foreign entities or at least adversarial? 0.99

01:43:16.000 I agree with the divestment, and I don't care what a few thousand people are doing downloading some app.

01:43:22.000 I don't know.

01:43:22.000 A lot of people are downloading.

01:43:23.000 It's not going to happen.

01:43:23.000 It never happens.

01:43:26.000 What do you think about the TikTok ban?

01:43:28.000 Well, I mean, I think there is already precedent.

01:43:30.000 There is a law on the books, right?

01:43:31.000 Where, like, foreign entities cannot own what we consider, like, media corporations in America, right?

01:43:37.000 Or a specific percentage of it, right?

01:43:39.000 I don't know.

01:43:39.000 There is a law on the books that you can't.

01:43:41.000 But then the question begins, right?

01:43:44.000 The question about this bill or whatever that was being passed is, like, I think the question is, like, how far reach does it have?

01:43:50.000 Does it get to, like, well, Elon's not born in America.

01:43:52.000 Does that mean he has to give up, you know, X or something along those lines?

01:43:55.000 So it's a slippery slope.

01:43:56.000 I've actually heard both sides of this argument.

01:43:58.000 And my first instinct was like, you know, this is a China propaganda machine, TikTok, right?

01:44:03.000 They're allied with, you know, our enemies, if you will.

01:44:06.000 And they use this to poison the minds of our youth, right?

01:44:10.000 And the brand of TikTok that they get in China is very different than the one we get here.

01:44:14.000 So on the surface, I feel like, okay, well, yeah, maybe there should be something to be done about that.

01:44:18.000 But then the question is, how do you do that while also protecting, you know, other social media companies and others without giving government total overreach where they can just say at any point, well, we're going to shut you down because, you know, for whatever reason.

01:44:31.000 They've already got total overreach.

01:44:33.000 The constitutionality of banning TikTok isn't really in question.

01:44:40.000 There's no constitutional precedent to give the government the authority to ban something like that.

01:44:45.000 Unless You say that it's for national security.

01:44:49.000 I do believe that TikTok is a means for the Chinese Communist Party to influence and acquire information on Americans and things that the government's doing.

01:45:11.000 The owner of Lockheed Martin or one of the people on the board of Lockheed Martin or someone with a top-secret clearance at Lockheed or Raytheon or whatever, they have a kid and their kid has TikTok on their phone.

01:45:20.000 There's no telling what they can access through the phone because I don't know myself what they can access, but I mean, if my phone can start my car...

01:45:33.000 We're already plugged in.

01:45:35.000 I'm sure that some smart Chinese programmers could use any number of apps in the phone if they have access to the phone.

01:45:45.000 And if TikTok does get access to the phone the way that we assume that it does, access to the microphone, access to the Bluetooth and stuff like that, I'm sure that there are all kinds of nefarious things they could be doing now.

01:46:00.000 I don't have any problem with banning TikTok.

01:46:03.000 I don't think that it's a free speech thing.

01:46:06.000 I don't think banning is the right approach.

01:46:06.000 I think selling to an American...

01:46:09.000 I don't have a problem with that either.

01:46:10.000 I agree.

01:46:10.000 Like if Elon buys it, for example, then...

01:46:13.000 That's disputed now.

01:46:15.000 We don't know if that was ever true.

01:46:17.000 But I don't believe that foreign countries have free speech rights in America. 1.00

01:46:21.000 Yes.

01:46:21.000 So I don't see why...

01:46:23.000 Well, the UK certainly doesn't.

01:46:25.000 So, the argument on the free speech of TikTok is that we can't force divestment because it violates the free speech rights of ByteDance and the Chinese partners, and I'm like, why would Chinese nationals in China have free speech in America?

01:46:36.000 It's like a big one.

01:46:37.000 Yeah, the Founding Fathers were not intending, like, I think if you go to an originalist argument in the Constitution, if you went to the Founding Fathers and said, should foreign countries, particularly adversarial ones, be allowed to leaflet in the United States, they'd say no.

01:46:49.000 Yeah.

01:46:50.000 That's essentially a good analogy because it's essentially what it is, yeah.

01:46:53.000 Right.

01:46:54.000 We got this from Patricia Wright.

01:46:56.000 She says, USAF wife here met active duty women who got pregnant on purpose to avoid their deployment cycle. 0.58

01:47:02.000 Of course.

01:47:03.000 I mean, it makes sense.

01:47:04.000 She said, whether married or not, sometimes by cheating.

01:47:07.000 Oh, wow.

01:47:08.000 Okay.

01:47:09.000 Everyone's pregnant by the time you get back from your deployment. 1.00

01:47:12.000 Never mind.

01:47:12.000 If you throw a combat element out into forward operating bases, you know all the women are getting pregnant.

01:47:21.000 Like, unless they're...

01:47:22.000 How do you feel about this in combat, right?

01:47:24.000 Because I was curious just about your take specifically.

01:47:26.000 What if there was, like, say, for example, an all-woman unit?

01:47:29.000 Would you be opposed to that?

01:47:30.000 Yes.

01:47:30.000 100%.

01:47:31.000 Because the psychological...

01:47:33.000 They're all women, right? 1.00

01:47:34.000 Well, okay, so that's not an all-women military, though.

01:47:37.000 So this all-women... 1.00

01:47:38.000 So this all-women unit, right? 0.96

01:47:40.000 So say it's a company, right?

01:47:42.000 All-women company, right? 0.99

01:47:43.000 They get into contact.

01:47:46.000 And you know that all the surrounding elements are going to be like, we need to go get him.

01:47:52.000 We need to go help him out.

01:47:53.000 We need to go defend him.

01:47:54.000 It's not even that.

01:47:56.000 Well, that's what I'm thinking.

01:47:57.000 You really want to send a unit of female combat to go fight Taliban men? 1.00

01:48:02.000 I'm not suggesting you should.

01:48:04.000 I was curious if it would be...

01:48:05.000 I just mean rhetorically.

01:48:06.000 Yeah, of course, right. 0.92

01:48:07.000 No, they would be dead in a heartbeat.

01:48:09.000 I mean, they can shoot fine and all this stuff, but...

01:48:11.000 No, no, no.

01:48:12.000 They're not going to be able to carry the same amount of ammo.

01:48:13.000 Yeah, that's what I mean.

01:48:14.000 They're not going to last.

01:48:15.000 It's really simple.

01:48:17.000 So, when you look at grip strength, when you look at stamina endurance, it's something like, I think, a thousand...

01:48:24.000 It's like 10,000 to one.

01:48:26.000 I actually don't think that any woman at the highest end reaches the highest end of men.

01:48:31.000 So, when we're talking about men in combat, you're already talking about the top...

01:48:36.000 Microscopic percentile of men who are trained and active and able, women don't reach that high. 0.86

01:48:42.000 So when we talk about, like, if a woman can pass the standard, there's a 6'3 woman who's ripped and is stronger than a 5'7 guy. 1.00

01:48:49.000 True.

01:48:50.000 But that 6'3 woman is still weaker than a 6'3 guy who is being chosen. 0.99

01:48:55.000 The 5'7 guy isn't in that role.

01:48:57.000 Exactly.

01:48:58.000 And I would like to change my answer.

01:49:00.000 The American Women Combat Force would not die instantly. 0.88

01:49:04.000 They could probably take over France. 0.70

01:49:06.000 They'd do okay in certain prospects, so I'll shout them out.

01:49:11.000 I still think the biggest issue would be that combat element would be looked at by other combat elements.

01:49:17.000 Oh, we've got to go save them.

01:49:18.000 We have to save them.

01:49:19.000 They're in contact.

01:49:20.000 We need to send guys to help them out. 0.69

01:49:22.000 We need to go protect them.

01:49:23.000 No, not.

01:49:24.000 If the other combat elements are incels.

01:49:29.000 They're like, they deserve it!

01:49:30.000 It's hard enough to fill the ranks, you know?

01:49:32.000 But you're right.

01:49:33.000 Then they'd be like, leave them.

01:49:34.000 Let's go help the bad guys. 1.00

01:49:36.000 Bitches. 1.00

01:49:38.000 Let me go. 1.00

01:49:39.000 All right.

01:49:41.000 Black Ops Elf says, never attribute to incompetence what is more likely attributable to malice.

01:49:46.000 They've declared their purpose is to destroy us, and they've been good at this, but we have trouble processing it, so...

01:49:52.000 We default to saying they're incompetent.

01:49:54.000 Don't underestimate.

01:49:55.000 Who's they?

01:49:56.000 He's talking about the government of California and Democrats.

01:49:59.000 It's hard to believe it's incompetence when they're like with de Blasio, for instance, in New York.

01:50:08.000 He was saying he wanted to buy a public.

01:50:11.000 He wanted to buy buildings for pennies on the dollar.

01:50:13.000 And then COVID lockdown happens and he's like, now we're going to do it.

01:50:17.000 So it's like my view is more that Democrats exploit crises with smiles on their faces.

01:50:23.000 Yes.

01:50:23.000 And they tell you they do it.

01:50:24.000 Not that they create crises to then exploit.

01:50:27.000 Yeah.

01:50:27.000 That's a lot harder to do.

01:50:29.000 Have you heard anything on that?

01:50:31.000 I mean, I haven't looked into it myself, but I wonder if he has, like, Sideline buying stuff up over there in the city.

01:50:36.000 He's gone.

01:50:37.000 But he can still buy.

01:50:38.000 He's a citizen.

01:50:38.000 He can still...

01:50:39.000 Oh, no, he's not doing anything.

01:50:40.000 You know what I mean?

01:50:42.000 Spidge B says, Daniel, Tim is too cocky about poker.

01:50:45.000 School him.

01:50:45.000 Oh, I already know that.

01:50:47.000 We talked before the show started.

01:50:49.000 You are lucky, right?

01:50:51.000 You believe that.

01:50:52.000 Okay, good.

01:50:53.000 That's important.

01:50:53.000 That's step one.

01:50:54.000 That was my joke.

01:50:55.000 I was like, when I goof off and get lucky and then talk about how good I am to the rest of the players.

01:51:01.000 That's to antagonize them, though.

01:51:02.000 You have to show we're going to take the camera out to the table.

01:51:06.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:51:08.000 We got the poker at the boys' table, you know?

01:51:10.000 Very, very impressive.

01:51:11.000 I've only brought 20,000.

01:51:12.000 Is that enough?

01:51:15.000 No, I'm sure my poker stories are like, to compare it to the average person, when the kindergartner comes in with the grand drawing and being like, look what I did.

01:51:24.000 I'm telling this guy a poker story, and I'm like, he's heard it.

01:51:26.000 Well, I'd say, I love this saying, because it's true, but poker's a lot like sex, in that everybody thinks they're good at it, but most people don't have a clue what they're doing.

01:51:34.000 Have you ever met someone who says, hey, are you good in bed? 0.71

01:51:37.000 No, I'm terrible.

01:51:39.000 Everyone thinks they're pretty good.

01:51:40.000 Same with poker.

01:51:41.000 Yeah.

01:51:42.000 Yeah, and it's funny.

01:51:44.000 Especially because, you know, playing at the local poker room, everybody wants to give you advice because they know better than you.

01:51:51.000 Oh, I get it.

01:51:51.000 I get it from people who play 1-2.

01:51:53.000 You know, $2, $5, and they said, yeah, you know, you should have folded that hand.

01:51:56.000 I'm like, why?

01:51:57.000 They don't know who you are.

01:51:58.000 Hey, buddy, let me give you some advice.

01:51:59.000 Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's whatever.

01:52:02.000 You have to take it with a train of thought.

01:52:03.000 Like, people who know who you are would tell you.

01:52:05.000 Oh, I get it all the time.

01:52:05.000 When I'm playing online and sometimes I'm streaming on YouTube or whatever, my poker, you get people, just randoms on the rail.

01:52:11.000 But the difference is they can see the cards and they see what happens.

01:52:14.000 So they can play, like, armchair quarterback.

01:52:16.000 It's like watching sports.

01:52:17.000 Don't you see that with sports?

01:52:18.000 People watch sports and they say, you, what are you doing?

01:52:20.000 Why don't you?

01:52:20.000 They're telling, like, Josh Allen or whatever.

01:52:22.000 He's like, you should.

01:52:23.000 You don't think he knows better than you.

01:52:25.000 You think you know better than he does.

01:52:27.000 My favorite line that someone told me was, no one's ever wrong at the poker table.

01:52:31.000 And so this guy was, like, his advice, it's good advice.

01:52:35.000 When the other guy makes a mistake, you tell them they did everything right.

01:52:40.000 You did the right thing.

01:52:41.000 Nothing you could have done there, buddy.

01:52:42.000 What are you going to do?

01:52:43.000 Hard luck.

01:52:44.000 Yep.

01:52:45.000 That's what I've been telling Mike Mattisot for many, many years.

01:52:48.000 Yep, you're just unlucky.

01:52:50.000 So if you're giving people advice, it's like, why would I listen to you at a poker table? 1.00

01:52:53.000 You're a liar. 1.00

01:52:54.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:52:55.000 Well, the people that do that, it's like a mistake, especially if they're giving the correct advice.

01:52:58.000 Okay.

01:52:59.000 I'll give you the good advice.

01:53:00.000 So let's say there's five of us playing poker. 0.91

01:53:01.000 I know you're terrible.

01:53:02.000 I am. 1.00

01:53:03.000 You're terrible. 0.99

01:53:03.000 We're all going to beat you out of money. 0.99

01:53:04.000 I don't want him telling you stuff while we're playing about how to play better because, you know, you cost everybody else.

01:53:09.000 Oh, I mean, that's happened to me because I don't care at one, too.

01:53:12.000 Like, we were talking about, like...

01:53:13.000 We're just goofing off.

01:53:15.000 And so there was a guy playing miserably, and he kept buying in.

01:53:18.000 And I was telling him, like...

01:53:19.000 But he'd play tighter.

01:53:21.000 Well, it's like 10-5, you know, like, if I'm betting here, here's what I'm doing. 0.99

01:53:25.000 And they're like, shut up, man. 0.86

01:53:27.000 Yeah, let him give it away. 0.96

01:53:27.000 Like, this dude's dumping money on the table. 0.96

01:53:29.000 And I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

01:53:31.000 Let me dump the money on the table because I can, and I'm having fun with you guys. 0.84

01:53:34.000 Not the poor sucker who's losing everything and is really depressed right now. 0.85

01:53:37.000 That's very nice. 0.97

01:53:37.000 That's a good way to put it. 0.97

01:53:37.000 That's kind of where I wanted to get in poker, where the people that I play with, they can all afford to lose. 0.97

01:53:42.000 I don't feel comfortable taking Grandma Betty's last $200 at the table, but rich billionaire tech guy, I'm like, I don't mind.

01:53:50.000 With me, it's kind of like hot potato, because I'll goof off, and I'll bet and play wild and loose, and then other people win, but then one person ends up losing that hot potato, and then they feel bad.

01:54:02.000 And then the guy's like, everybody else got paid but me.

01:54:06.000 Yeah, they feel worse.

01:54:08.000 All right!

01:54:09.000 Scuba Steve says, Google the fitness test for both Army and the Marines.

01:54:12.000 They are different standards for men and women and age.

01:54:14.000 Men have to perform higher. 0.98

01:54:16.000 Yes.

01:54:17.000 Well, that's not good then.

01:54:18.000 If that's the case, then I'd be opposed to that.

01:54:22.000 They brought women into combat in 2016 through the Marine Corps, by the way, FOA. Is he sure that statement is based on for combat specifically or just for military service?

01:54:31.000 I think it's general.

01:54:32.000 Yeah, it's a general test.

01:54:33.000 Are there female combat marines? 1.00

01:54:36.000 There were four in our history.

01:54:39.000 There might be some today.

01:54:40.000 I don't know.

01:54:40.000 But I know Maria Durham was the first one back in 2017. And then there were three others.

01:54:45.000 But I don't know current situation stats.

01:54:48.000 So here's the issue.

01:54:49.000 Women have less skin collagen, less muscle density, less fast twitch muscle, less bone density, larger Q angles. 0.99

01:54:57.000 Those are largely absolute regardless of whether or not you're in the higher percentile of female.

01:55:03.000 Those are all facts you weren't allowed to say three years ago.

01:55:05.000 Yep.

01:55:05.000 It's true.

01:55:06.000 I mean, it's really true.

01:55:07.000 You couldn't say that without being considered phobic.

01:55:10.000 So the cue angle is because of the hip ratio.

01:55:12.000 The femurs come at an angle, which means women are prone to ankle and knee injuries much more than men.

01:55:18.000 So there are still women with narrower hips and all those things, but they still are going to be more prone to those injuries. 1.00

01:55:24.000 And the lower center of gravity, harder to carry heavier weight, not likely to carry the same amount of ammunition.

01:55:31.000 But if they do carry the same standard as men, they're going to burn their stamina much more quickly.

01:55:35.000 There's a lot of complications.

01:55:36.000 And men are – this is just evolutionary biology.

01:55:41.000 Men are expendable.

01:55:43.000 Women are not. 1.00

01:55:45.000 Yeah, but what is a man?

01:55:47.000 I don't even know.

01:55:48.000 Human male.

01:55:49.000 Let's just shout out, Maria. 0.78

01:55:51.000 I'm sorry, Miss Quariam.

01:55:54.000 Q-U-A-M. It was the very first person infantry from the Marine Corps the past through boot camp. 1.00

01:55:59.000 So shout out.

01:56:01.000 All right.

01:56:02.000 She's labeled it.

01:56:03.000 Anthony Johnson says, U.S. Army from 05 to 09. Basic training was in Fort Relax in Jackson.

01:56:08.000 Training company had second floor for women, and I heard their troubles in the stairwell and watched how they had another few minutes to finish a two-mile run. 1.00

01:56:17.000 Oh, another thing is women can't get along. 1.00

01:56:18.000 Another two minutes?

01:56:20.000 Put too many women together. 1.00

01:56:21.000 That's pushing it.

01:56:23.000 Okay.

01:56:23.000 So tell me if this is...

01:56:25.000 Fact check me right now.

01:56:26.000 Like Google this.

01:56:27.000 Okay.

01:56:28.000 I think it's Japanese.

01:56:29.000 I'm not sure.

01:56:30.000 But in one of these Asian alphabets, the symbol for...

01:56:34.000 There's a symbol for a woman. 0.97

01:56:36.000 Actually, I'm sorry.

01:56:37.000 There's a symbol for tree.

01:56:38.000 And if you put it next to a symbol for tree, you get trees.

01:56:41.000 And if you add a third tree symbol, it means forest.

01:56:46.000 If you take woman and you put it next to another woman, you get women. 1.00

01:56:51.000 And if you put a third woman, you get argument. 0.99

01:56:54.000 I'm not joking.

01:56:55.000 I am not joking.

01:56:57.000 I am not insulting with that.

01:56:58.000 So fact check that because I think it's Japanese.

01:57:00.000 It's a lot to look up.

01:57:01.000 And it was a viral video where a Japanese woman, an American woman of Japanese, she was an American Japanese woman. 0.96

01:57:07.000 She was from America.

01:57:07.000 I spoke English.

01:57:08.000 And she was teaching people how to speak Japanese and read Japanese.

01:57:11.000 I think it was Japanese.

01:57:12.000 And then she shows this and it went viral because it was hilarious.

01:57:15.000 So, I don't know.

01:57:18.000 Fact check me.

01:57:19.000 Well, the kanji for woman, Ona, I don't know how to... 0.94

01:57:27.000 Put three of them together, though.

01:57:31.000 No, just Google search the story.

01:57:33.000 Yeah.

01:57:34.000 Chinese.

01:57:35.000 Chinese.

01:57:36.000 So in etymology, the Chinese character, the traditional character for woman, is the character that means quarrel or dispute.

01:57:44.000 Two women symbols next to each other makes argument. 1.00

01:57:47.000 There you go.

01:57:48.000 What did you look up so fast to just find that instance?

01:57:50.000 I Google searched woman means argument Chinese. 1.00

01:57:53.000 Oh, but you knew Chinese nice.

01:57:55.000 Yeah.

01:57:57.000 So, let me pull it up to fact check it.

01:58:00.000 Oh, whoop. 0.92

01:58:01.000 Just closed on accident.

01:58:03.000 There we go.

01:58:03.000 Dirty knees.

01:58:04.000 So, let's see. 0.50

01:58:08.000 Where is it in here?

01:58:10.000 What is this?

01:58:12.000 Fork.

01:58:12.000 This doesn't actually help.

01:58:13.000 This doesn't explain anything to me.

01:58:15.000 On Chinese? 0.91

01:58:15.000 Yeah. 0.91

01:58:16.000 It doesn't actually.

01:58:17.000 Oh, okay.

01:58:18.000 Duplication of woman. 0.99

01:58:19.000 Oh, interesting.

01:58:21.000 But it doesn't...

01:58:23.000 Oh, there you go.

01:58:23.000 Wow!

01:58:24.000 There it is!

01:58:24.000 Quarrel.

01:58:25.000 One simple means woman, two means dispute. 1.00

01:58:30.000 That makes so much sense.

01:58:32.000 Just imagine the guy making the alphabet.

01:58:35.000 It's just evidence of the patriarchy and the fact that men have always hated women.

01:58:40.000 I will say this based on my own personal anecdotal evidence, but America gets a bad rap as being this really racist nation, where when I go to a lot of other places in the world, it's like sexism and racism is so much more prevalent and just accepted within the culture, and ageism and different things like that.

01:58:56.000 I went to Korea.

01:58:58.000 And we were going to go to a bar.

01:59:00.000 And they wouldn't let us in.

01:59:02.000 And I was like, they said 86, 86. I was like, what do you mean, 86?

01:59:05.000 It's like, you have to be born after 1986. There's a lot of different cultures that sort of, like, it's far...

01:59:12.000 It pales in comparison to the evolution and the growth we've had here in this country.

01:59:17.000 Obviously, things are not perfect here.

01:59:19.000 Dude, the only reason we get a bad reputation is from Americans. 0.97

01:59:22.000 Not from other countries.

01:59:24.000 In Japanese kanji, three woman symbols means noisy. 0.97

01:59:32.000 To your point about the U.S. basically had an entire summer...

01:59:38.000 Of riots and tearing apart major cities because there's perceived racism.

01:59:45.000 And the United States is among the least racist countries on earth.

01:59:51.000 It's one of those things that's very difficult to sort of define.

01:59:53.000 Like, how do you define who's more or less racist?

01:59:55.000 Like, how do you define yourself?

01:59:56.000 Who defines himself as a racist?

01:59:58.000 It's a very difficult, quantifiable thing.

02:00:00.000 So you just look at, like, you know, living standards.

02:00:02.000 Like in America, you have a pretty diverse group of people that live in different, you know, financial socioeconomic tiers, if you will, where that's not necessarily the case in a lot of other places, much like, you know, to the same degree that it is here.

02:00:18.000 Yeah.

02:00:18.000 So by that alone, it would suggest that like, OK, listen, racism exists in a lot of different ways, both implicit, institutional and all these things.

02:00:27.000 But America is, I think, compare it from now to 1960.

02:00:30.000 We're doing a lot better now.

02:00:31.000 And it's okay to recognize that, I would think.

02:00:34.000 We're doing better than most places in the world.

02:00:35.000 We're only considered racist...

02:00:36.000 Better than every other place.

02:00:37.000 ...by the people who live here, the leftists who live here.

02:00:39.000 That's true.

02:00:40.000 The only people who call us the most racist country in the world is by them, no one else.

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