In the wake of the UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassination, the left is celebrating, and the police release an image of a person of interest, but it's not a suspect. Plus, a woman accused of a pump-and-dump scheme to make money on the stock market, and a man who thinks fictional smells are racist.
00:00:29.000Interestingly, the exact criticism that she posted of the exact company she was targeting has now backtracked following the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealth.
00:00:51.000a book about how insurance companies are screwing people over.
00:00:55.000Taylor Lorenz then posted on social media how she and many others want more of this, then posted an explanation for why they did, and then posted an image and the name of the CEO of Blue Cross.
00:01:10.000And now, surprise, surprise, the very policy that was being critiqued has been reversed.
00:01:16.000It's kind of a shocking revelation, to say the least.
00:01:19.000Leftists are engaging in what I would describe as terrorism on the internet after a guy was murdered, and they're celebrating it, and it seems like these companies are very, very terrified.
00:01:28.000So we'll talk about that, plus there's just a lot of stuff going on.
00:01:32.000I know, guys, you're going to cringe, but Hawk Tua is being accused of a pump-and-dump securities fraud scheme type deal.
00:01:39.000We briefly talked about it yesterday, but it's erupting now with mainstream coverage and law firms advertising to people who have lost their money in this scheme.
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00:02:55.000My friends, let me just say, this is a man born of the Commonwealth, and he is so turned by the events of the culture war in this country, he had someone commission a painting of him as an American revolutionary soldier.
00:03:39.000And you can put doctor in front of your name, because if you've got these people claiming that fictional smells are racist and that warrants them being called doctor, certainly being a member of Timcast dot com warrants much, much more.
00:03:50.000In fact, I got to be honest, if you're a member of Timcast dot com, I think that's more evidence you are well-educated compared to this person who claimed fictional smells are racist.
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00:04:05.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Amber Duke.
00:05:45.000Now, I've watched a couple more of these expert gun guy videos.
00:05:48.000They said, no, it looks like it's malfunctioning.
00:05:51.000I believe it was one of the live rounds had a phrase scrawled on it and it said depose, deny, defend, which is similar to delay, deny, defend, the name of a book about how insurance companies are screwing people over.
00:06:04.000So it certainly seems like this is leaning more towards the ideological motivation.
00:06:08.000That being said, if this was just a hit, they'd want it to look like it was politically motivated to throw the scent off their trail.
00:06:15.000Now, what does that have to do with Blue Cross backtracking?
00:06:18.000This goes to Taylor Lorenz, a former Washington Post reporter.
00:06:23.000I mean, this is the corporate press here.
00:06:26.000And she made a series of posts on social media, one in which she referenced Blue Cross specifically.
00:06:32.000This post said Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
00:06:41.000If the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered.
00:06:44.000And she responded that, I'm not going to read her quote, but she said that's why she and everyone else, she said, we want these executives, if you know what I mean.
00:07:18.000So I guess, wow, that's shocking and terrifying.
00:07:22.000The Daily Mail says Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has reversed a policy change that would have seen them tie payments in some states the length of a time a patient went under anesthesia.
00:07:30.000The insurance company was one of the largest health insurance companies in the country backtracked on the move following widespread outcry.
00:07:36.000Or perhaps it was Taylor Lorenz saying that she wanted these people to die, making a long post about how many people want them to die, and then posting the image of the woman for everyone to see, while scores of leftists across social media are saying more, more, more.
00:09:02.000So when these people put out these threats to these CEOs, it's not so simple to just say the CEOs can get security because that CEO means they can't go out to a picnic with their kids at the park.
00:09:14.000They can't go on a cruise because one crazy person, Like, this guy targeting the CEO, it was early in the morning, but what, this is New York, what if there are crowds?
00:09:24.000So they can have all security in the world and someone can show up and just unload into a crowd and then innocent people get hurt.
00:09:29.000The threats from these far leftists cannot be tolerated.
00:09:32.000I think Taylor Lorenz, let me ask you guys, I mean, do you think Taylor Lorenz should face some kind of criminal or civil penalty for doing this?
00:09:40.000And I think it's insane that she worked at both the Washington Post and the New York Times before that and was heralded as basically the go-to reporter for internet trends for at least five or six years.
00:09:52.000She, remember, was the person who put Kellyanne Conway's daughter into the spotlight and used a child to advance her liberal activism.
00:10:00.000And now she has tucked tail away from the corporate media and Blame them, even though they're the ones who gave her a platform for, I guess, everything that's going wrong in politics.
00:10:11.000And we have seen the consequences of this type of rhetoric with what happened to Trump, right?
00:10:15.000I mean, it's a perfect analogy with the Butler rally, which you're talking about, Tim, because there was someone who died in the crowd because of that shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:10:24.000And there were other people there who were completely innocent, who had nothing to do with the president, who were injured.
00:10:29.000So, these types of threats, this type of behavior, is not just relegated to the person that they want to target in their crosshairs, and it's the exact same type of connection that they make too, Right.
00:10:45.000It's well, this person is somehow directly responsible for my life being crap.
00:10:49.000And so I have to kill them in order to affect change rather than going through the normal democratic process.
00:10:55.000Or in this case, if you're talking about corporations, boycotting or picketing or protesting or literally anything short of being physically violent.
00:11:04.000I like that she exposes herself as being this bloodthirsty.
00:11:08.000I like seeing exactly how she feels because this is, to me, an extension of the summer of violence where their preferred language is violence, and that's how they want to affect policy.
00:11:54.000Here's a tweet from Jarvis Best on X who said, I love Taylor Lorenz so much because she spends half her time wishing death on her enemies and the other half complaining about online bullying.
00:12:09.000I mean, you hear, like you referenced, the Summer of Love, the idea that by any means necessary, which Tim's talked about, that's an actual organization, you know, by any means necessary.
00:12:20.000The idea that you have to respect a variety of tactics, I think is what they say.
00:12:41.000It's usually lower grade violence than right-leaning violence.
00:12:46.000Right-leaning violence is more about trying to actually...
00:12:51.000Cause damage, whereas leftist violence is frequently just trying to scare people and intimidate people, which they've effectively done.
00:12:57.000To corporations, to politicians, through the summer of love.
00:13:00.000And then to connect that to what Tim's saying about collateral damage, look at the no-go zones that they were taking over.
00:13:06.000You know, kids were losing their lives.
00:13:08.000They were getting gunned down in these spots.
00:13:10.000Random people drove through and they were getting shot at.
00:13:12.000This is tough for me because Taylor Lorenz didn't explicitly state on her page, hey, I want something to happen to this person.
00:13:18.000And so I think the interpretation is clear.
00:13:22.000And the question is, do we tolerate Taylor Lorenz saying, hey, she has like this long explanation about why these executives are bad and everyone agrees.
00:13:31.000She then says she wants them dead and then she posts a picture of another CEO. I'm like, I don't know, I feel like she didn't explicitly state something that should happen, and she's dancing on the line.
00:13:43.000We can't set the precedent, I think, of...
00:13:52.000Maybe we have to consider the context around a CEO just got assassinated and then she did this and that is where we say, hey, yeah, she is advocating for this.
00:14:32.000I mean, this is the challenge I have with it.
00:14:34.000We don't even know what the policy is other than some leftist said, here's my thoughts on it, and then advocated for murder.
00:14:40.000I wanted to bring this up because I'm sort of reactionary.
00:14:43.000So when I hear everyone saying the same thing directionally about a policy, I'm like, okay, well, let's find out what the policy actually is.
00:14:50.000And I was looking at some community notes on X related to this.
00:14:52.000Shout out to community notes, by the way.
00:14:55.000But people were explaining that they were actually updating their standards for anesthesiology claims to the same standards that are employed by the CMS through Medicare and Medicaid.
00:15:06.000So they were actually going by the government's timelines for how long surgeries are supposed to last, and there's a cap on it for what Medicare and Medicaid will pay out based on those time limits.
00:15:15.000Because of the level of insurance fraud that apparently they were facing from anesthesiologists, which is apparently pretty common, that's why they changed the policy.
00:15:25.000Far be it from me to defend a giant insurance company, but it seems like we weren't really being told all of the details about what exactly they were doing and why.
00:15:33.000And Taylor's just celebrating the death.
00:15:36.000There's so many reasons that UnitedHealth has issues.
00:15:38.000And we don't even know why he was killed, right?
00:15:41.000Because he's got personal things going on, estranged from the wife.
00:16:25.000These people are mind-blowingly evil and stupid.
00:16:29.000Former New York Times and Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz defended her celebration of the assassination of Brian Thompson.
00:16:34.000On Wednesday in the hours immediately following Thompson being shot, Lorenz expressed her dismay with health industry saying, and people wonder why we want these executives, if you know what I mean.
00:16:44.000I'm not going to read her full statement.
00:16:45.000She wanted to share celebratory graphics that she said were being spammed in her group chats.
00:16:51.000It's a picture of a star smiling, and it says CEO down.
00:16:55.000And she's like, that's just what my group chat's sharing.
00:17:00.000Anyway, unsurprisingly, her joy over the extinguishment of Thompson's life drew criticism.
00:17:05.000After providing some examples of others dancing on Thompson's grave while only mentioning one of her many enthusiastic posts, she addressed the backlash, saying, quote, naturally, the mainstream media began pearl clutching in outrage after I posted a quote tweet about insurance companies no longer paying for certain anesthesia with the phrase.
00:17:21.000And people wonder why we want these executives, you know, and then she goes into mention not being alive anymore.
00:17:26.000Legacy media outlets, including Fox News, pounced and wrote a slew of articles about my calls for violence.
00:17:44.000I am explaining that thousands of Americans, myself included, are fed up with our barbaric health care system and the people at the top who rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering and the death on millions of innocent people.
00:18:05.000Before we move on, there's one thing that I want to point out, though.
00:18:08.000The problems that people face with our health care system go way beyond insurance.
00:18:13.000There's no reason for you to need to have insurance just to go see your regular doctor for a checkup.
00:18:20.000Most of the time, most people should be able to afford that.
00:18:23.000Like, it's not necessary for things to cost as much as they do.
00:18:27.000And if it wasn't for the fact that insurance and health care is tied to employment, you need insurance for literally anything that you do.
00:18:35.000If all these barriers to entry were not, didn't exist, health care in the U.S. would be significantly cheaper.
00:18:43.000So it's easy to point at the big company and say it's their fault, but it's not actually, it's not exclusively the big company's.
00:18:51.000The big government in and of itself is directly responsible for a lot of the policies that doctors have to follow that make it necessary to have the big companies and stuff involved in everyday healthcare.
00:19:04.000One of the problems I take with the far left is that Absolutely.
00:19:15.000Most companies, of course, have revolving door lobbyists who want to get jobs in the government and then get jobs these companies.
00:19:20.000But it is the angry left saying more government regulations creating the system that they then complain about and then use to justify death.
00:19:27.000To that point, back in the 90s, IBM had zero lobbyists and they were proud of that.
00:19:34.000We don't have anyone in D.C. because they did have the opinion that we don't need to go to the government until the government came after them and said, we're going to sue you as a monopoly.
00:20:08.000I was looking at old videos from a few years ago about UnitedHealth and their issues, and people were referring to them as an alternate government because of how big they've become.
00:21:04.000I mean, Taylor Lorenz and her ilk are the same kind of people who basically wish death on people who didn't get vaccinated during COVID and said that it's their fault that she's getting sick and she has to raw dog the air to this day.
00:21:17.000You know, and it's funny that she's kind of getting the brunt of this story, but she is one of the most prominent individuals who has directly engaged in what I would call veiled terrorism.
00:21:26.000They veiled because she didn't literally say go do it, but we all kind of got the gist of what she was saying, right?
00:21:32.000Or if you're dealing with people that are on the edge of society, maybe they have borderline mental illness or something like that, and you're saying these things, they're going to pick up what you're putting down.
00:21:55.000compared to white conservatives, it's something like 20 to 25 percent.
00:21:59.000So they literally are speaking to a collective group of mentally ill people who would be more predisposed to engaging in this kind of behavior.
00:22:41.000I should just make you do things for me.
00:22:44.000And so it results in really stupid people not knowing how money works.
00:22:49.000And they say things like, the CEO of this major, this Fortune 500 company got paid $12 million last year, and the workers are only getting $15 an hour.
00:23:00.000And then I'm like, all right, let's stop.
00:23:02.000How many employees does that company have?
00:23:04.000They'll be like, I don't know, 40,000?
00:23:05.000Alright, let's divide 12 million by 40,000.
00:23:08.000How much money do you want to give to the employees?
00:23:10.000Now, I'm not saying it's good if CEOs are ripping off the company and doing bad things, selling stocks before investigations or whatever would be happening, but it's like, you're not talking about solutions, you're just saying, I'm mad.
00:23:22.000And then when we say, here's a solution, you burn the solution and say, I don't want a solution, I want to be mad.
00:23:27.000Yeah, because the solution that they actually want is, I want the world, I want a communist utopia.
00:23:33.000Well, but think about what that is, right?
00:23:35.000The people who want communist utopia are not saying they want a communist utopia.
00:23:39.000They're saying, I don't want to do any work, and I want to be able to live and just chill.
00:23:45.000So we had a meeting today with Ian and a couple of video producers, and we're talking about how do we make movies and shows, and what are the cultural moves we need to make?
00:23:52.000And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, these guys are motivated and want to get stuff done.
00:23:57.000You don't need communism if you're a person who just wants to do work, if you have drive and ambition, because the money comes with the ambition that you have.
00:24:07.000And it may be, maybe you're a working class guy, and you're struggling to get by, and it's tough, but your motivation is, I got a family, and I'm going to feed my family, I'm going to work as hard as I have to do it.
00:24:49.000And their idea of getting paid not to work would actually make their mental health issues worse.
00:24:54.000I mean, I think there's inherent value in work and toil and in being productive.
00:24:57.000And the idea that you would sit around all day doing literally nothing, like the idea that that would give more purpose to your life or make you better off is so backwards.
00:25:06.000Isolation was so destructive during lockdowns.
00:25:22.000And I'm like, a guy 300 years ago who grew up with his dad who was a blacksmith was not upset that someone came to him and said, I need a new sword.
00:25:32.000And he was like, I know how to make them.
00:25:42.000And for some reason over the past several decades, we've developed this like drugged out hippie mentality of like, life should be just like laying around and looking at the sky.
00:29:44.000If you're an assassin and you've got a backpack on, you just pulled this off, people are saying, I bet he changed his clothes.
00:29:50.000I'm like, imagine if he was wearing...
00:29:53.000Like a muscle suit to make him look bigger.
00:29:55.000So in the photos, they're looking for a guy who's about six feet tall with a muscular build.
00:30:00.000And then he goes into an alley and he pulls this silicon suit off, shoves it into a backpack and puts on a button up and then like ditches the backpack in a garbage or something.
00:31:51.000Fox 5, Good Day New York, first on the scene.
00:31:54.000We saw as officers attempted to give this man CPR, those desperate moments.
00:31:59.000But again, this victim, the man who was shot in the chest, has died.
00:32:03.000This all happened about 6.45 in the morning outside of the Hilton Hotel area.
00:32:07.000Right off 6th Avenue, the suspect described as a six-foot-tall man with a slim build, possibly wearing a cream-colored jacket, black gloves.
00:33:11.000Could it be, there's two ways to look at it, depose, deny, defend could be after litigation, deposition, this person was basically advancing delay, deny, defend because he went through something personally or a loved one did?
00:33:29.000Or is this intentionally trying to mislead people and he actually got the name of the book wrong when he scrawled the message on the bullets?
00:33:39.000Because he doesn't actually know what the book is.
00:34:31.000And I also want to say, I don't think he's the assassin CIA. I'm just saying that he's using possible CIA tactics, you know, as a professional hitman.
00:34:43.000He didn't look like when you watch the video of him doing the actual shoot, he didn't look like he was scared.
00:34:48.000And if it was like a first time kind of thing or if it was like his kid was the reason that he was doing it, like kid got denied or his wife got denied.
00:34:57.000You'd think that there would be emotion in what he's doing.
00:34:59.000Maybe he'd shoot him and yell at him or say something.
00:35:21.000If he's not super nervous and he's not fumbling with stuff, he shot the guy, he knew that the gun wasn't going to cycle because as soon as he shot, he didn't do...
00:35:33.000When I'm shooting, if I shoot and something goes wrong, the first thing I do is tap rack.
00:35:37.000But he knew that it wasn't going to be tap.
00:35:40.000He knew just to go to right to rack it.
00:35:42.000And having it written on that live casing, knowing that he was going to eject it.
00:35:46.000It looks like they were steel casings.
00:36:28.000Or people would be like, well, this could end with a death by cop situation if it was maybe less of a professional, right, who got caught quickly.
00:36:53.000Everyone knew where this guy would be for a conference, so anyone could have access to it, which would lean to anyone knowing where he was.
00:36:58.000We do have some other updates as well.
00:37:00.000The police stormed a train, the Long Island Rail.
00:37:05.000An accident said they were on the 5.30 p.m.
00:37:08.000LIRR train to Seaford when the train was swarmed by cops.
00:37:12.000Officials maintain that although the train tip failed to find the killer, the NYPD welcomed the wave of tips it's receiving and is offering a $10,000 reward.
00:38:45.000Yeah, some of these guns where you have to manually cycle it.
00:38:48.000They're sharing all these, like, they wrote entire articles on how it was a World War II gun, like, that was a clue.
00:38:52.000Look, I own guns, but I'm not a gun expert by any means, and I've been to the range of a lot of people, and when there's a jam, they're clueless, and they're like, I don't understand what's happening, what do I do?
00:39:00.000Or there's, like, four or five different things that it could be, and you go through a variety of steps before you finally get to the point where you cycle dry fire and make sure it's safe.
00:39:09.000That's, like, the last thing that you do when you're dealing with a malfunction.
00:40:01.000You've got 30,000 or whatever cops who need to be trained times whatever the training is, and they're like, nah, we don't have that many shootings, and the lawsuits don't cost that much, so just whatever.
00:42:21.000They say the failed pillow salesman who has made a name for himself by—we get it, we get it.
00:42:24.000Well, honestly, I'm considering it because I think that, one, obviously, I think we need a new generation in the DNC. He's not wrong about that.
00:42:30.000If this election has taught us nothing else, I think we need an intergenerational coalition as a party.
00:42:37.000They're not going to—bro, you're not going anywhere near the DNC. They're going to be like, yes, right this way, Mr. Hogg, and they're going to walk you down a dark corridor inside the building.
00:42:46.000Then they're going to open a door with a bright light.
00:42:47.000They're going to push you through, and it's a fire exit.
00:43:05.000I mean, look, I would like to see the Democrat Party move away from the progressive end, right?
00:43:14.000The Democrat Party move away from the far left end.
00:43:18.000There was strong signals in this past election that the country wants to move back to the right a little bit, move away from things like defund the police, move away from things like open borders, move away from things like restorative justice.
00:43:36.000These policies have negative consequences for Americans.
00:43:41.000And that was kind of clear and made kind of clear in the election.
00:43:45.000It would be cool if we didn't have the same crop of people with progressive ideas saying, hey, let's just do more of the same stuff that we've been rejected about.
00:43:57.000Well, what's so wild about him saying that he wants to fix the DNC's condescension problem is anyone who's seen David Hogg's social media account know that he's one of the most condescending people on the Internet.
00:44:13.000Yeah, it's always projection, and it's bad for the country.
00:44:17.000Again, the policies that the left prefers have been tested for at least the past five years, and they're producing results that Americans aren't happy with.
00:44:28.000You look at what happened in California, and there were a bunch of recalls.
00:44:57.000And that's a big deal and that speaks to the tone of the country.
00:45:03.000Even though the left would love to say, oh, there was no red wave and that Donald Trump, because he didn't get 50% of the vote, it wasn't a landslide, blah, blah, blah.
00:45:17.000And also on the House numbers, if you look at the redistricting that happened, Republicans are basically capped at the amount of seats that they can win just based on the way the districts are drawn.
00:45:29.000But if you look at the counties that flipped, the seats that they did win, they basically did max out, which, I mean, they hit the ceiling of the potential support that they can get in the House based on the way the districts are drawn right now.
00:45:40.000Is the Democratic Party, can they not reject the tone of the American people?
00:45:47.000Cenk was here just a couple days ago, and he was actually calling for moderation.
00:46:03.000Well, I'm not going to pretend like he's been a saint the whole time or he's come around like, look, Dave Rubin was on this train a long time ago, recognizing the left was losing their minds.
00:46:44.000So on The View, you have this great bit.
00:46:46.000Actually, we can pull this up in a second, where Charlemagne the God is like, Joe Biden lied about pardoning his son and Whoopi's like, no, maybe he just changed his mind.
00:46:55.000And it's like, did you guys read the initial reporting on this from NBC that said Biden had been planning this the whole time?
00:47:15.000And so he recently tweeted that he's actually backing a Republican, that he's throwing his support behind a Republican who's got some populist plans that he agrees with and says, let's go for it.
00:47:24.000Because if the left populist and the right populist can get victories where they agree, just take them.
00:48:09.000I mean, one of the problems, though, with the Democrats potentially fracturing is that, I mean, this did happen to the Republican Party in a lot of ways when Trump became the nominee in 2015, where they were forced, really, to listen to their grassroots activists for the first time in a long time.
00:48:28.000I don't see the same kind of groundswell on the left to be more normal.
00:48:33.000Instead, you actually have the vocal minority of the progressives getting increasingly angry at a party that they feel isn't crazy enough.
00:48:41.000And the Democrats who have all of the money and political power try to placate them by running candidates or adopting policies that are in line with that, as opposed to moving towards the more moderate sort of blue dog Democrat position.
00:48:53.000I would love to see more blue dog Democrats being held up as.
00:48:58.000Yeah, they're basically extinct at this point.
00:49:54.000I mean, look, the Republicans had a similar thing happen after it became clear that there was no yellow cake uranium in Iraq and that the pretenses for the war in Iraq were BS. And the Republicans were like, wait a minute, this is not what the Republican Party is supposed to be.
00:50:18.000The Ron Paul revolution was mostly Republicans that said, I don't want to be involved with the warmonger party.
00:50:27.000And there's a lot of people left and a lot of reshaping, and it ended up with Donald Trump coming and kind of taking the reins of that.
00:50:37.000And whereas he's probably more establishment than a lot of the libertarians would like, he's still a far cry from Mitt Romney and Dick Cheney.
00:50:47.000So now it's time for the Democrats to kind of be lost in the wilderness for a bit and hopefully the reasonable moderate Democrats will find their way back.
00:51:04.000No, I'm not going anywhere near any of that stuff ever.
00:51:06.000I mean, when we're talking about this difference, though, between Trump's takeover of the GOP and then the Democrats, Trump has made very clear that he is interested in having people around him who don't agree with him on every single thing, right?
00:51:19.000That's why he's willing to partner with people like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. But on the Democratic side, you have complete and total ideological purity that is required of everyone who gets elevated to one of these leadership positions So they're not really able to have the necessary debates that they need to have in order to create a healthier party that actually represents the people.
00:52:23.000Hawk Tua, insider trade on that thing.
00:52:27.000Andy Warhol once said, in the future, everybody will be famous for a few months, and in that time, they will be accused of insider trading when their meme coin flops.
00:52:35.000I can respect the attempt, Jason Frank, for Vulture, but I think mine was better.
00:52:39.000This morning I said the making a random comment about sucking dick to committing securities fraud prison pipeline.
00:52:49.000So for those that don't know, she launched a cryptocurrency, and within a few minutes, tons of people who had access to the coin who never bought it dumped it and ripped off all the fans that bought in.
00:53:01.000And so it's looking now like Hawk Tua is facing some...
00:53:36.000So we have this post that this is Voidzilla, a.k.a.
00:53:41.000Coffeezilla, and he's got this great video up on YouTube, put up two hours ago, where he's talking about what happened with Hawk Tua's coin basically ripping people off.
00:53:50.000They said this, 285 investors joined her presale.
00:53:56.000So actually, let me jump back and I'll play a sampling of his video.
00:54:00.000And then I recommend you watch his full video.
00:54:02.000Into this pre-sale, they say they got in at $16.69 million total valuation, which means that if they sold out the whole 17%, you're looking at about $2.8 million raised by pre-selling these tokens.
00:54:18.000So it is essentially a lie to say her team didn't sell tokens.
00:54:22.000Well, they pre-sold them, and then those investors dumped on your fans.
00:54:40.000Anyway, you can see in total, $3.3 million were sold.
00:54:45.000So basically, Hawk Tua says, we didn't sell any of these coins, but had pre-sold them, that's what they're claiming, to investors, quote-unquote investors, and then 89 of them dumped everything they got, and there's this huge transaction record of people getting four, like three, one's got 300 grand, one's got like a million, and then a bunch of them have like $40,000, and now people are saying she's going to talk to a judge.
00:55:10.000Well, I mean, it's probably smart for her to go talk to a judge because she's going to have to...
00:55:21.000I mean, yeah, I guess I imagine she probably should talk to a lawyer first because anything that she says is going to just incriminate herself.
00:56:32.000And if she was dealing with mainstream typical success, she wouldn't resort to this weird crypto scheme, whatever you want to call it, to make money.
00:56:45.000And reportedly, according to the people online, they're saying that she got over a million bucks.
00:56:50.000We were talking about this the other night, though.
00:56:51.000Like, you get that thing that goes viral, but you have to have something of value that people actually are interested in if you expect to actually capitalize on the viral post or whatever.
00:58:48.000I listened to a little bit of one of her first podcasts that she posted, which was just the aftermath of finding out that she had gone viral.
00:58:55.000And it was actually really sad in a way and kind of tragic because she had to explain to her parents why she went viral.
00:59:04.000And when I saw this video, and everyone was so excited about it, they thought it was so funny, I just thought, this girl's parents must be so horrified that this is the daughter that they raised and this is what she's out doing on the town with her friends.
00:59:36.000It had been like two or three weeks where he was on all of these programs.
00:59:40.000And he went from being some dude working in a small Brooklyn restaurant or something, washing dishes, to all of a sudden, people are paying him speaking fees.
01:00:56.000Like, obviously you can hand someone a $100 bill, but there's limits on how much you can give people before you get taxed on those things and then dramatically reduces the amount you can give to people.
01:01:06.000So it's not as simple to say, like, I'd like to buy my friend a car.
01:02:09.000There's also the problem with what it does to your relationships and your family.
01:02:12.000I mean, if you've ever had someone in your family pass away and they had, you know, a significant chunk of change that they had after they died, like, families get absolutely insane in that process of divvying up the assets and the reading of the will and all of that.
01:02:26.000I mean, if you throw in a $100 million lottery win, that's only magnified to the nth degree.
01:02:31.000I mean, your life is literally never the same.
01:05:29.000This is why we've never talked about it before, because it's just like, I don't care about this degree of stuff.
01:05:36.000But I suppose when we have this story where it's like an internet personality of little and ill repute is now being accused of major securities fraud, I'm like, now there's an interesting story.
01:05:47.000Because I really do, I was talking about this this morning with, do you guys remember Overly Attached Girlfriend?
01:05:54.000She was, I think, the first person who took being a meme and turned it into something to make money off of.
01:05:59.000Because you had that stoned guy meme and you had the thumbs up guy meme and they were just memes and they had no idea what happened.
01:06:06.000When she did the overly attached girlfriend thing, she leaned into it, made accounts, and then started using it to make money.
01:06:12.000After, slowly, she started getting less and less traction and people paid attention less and less because she really didn't have a lot to offer other than she made a funny video this one time.
01:06:23.000But she just drifted away and now she's got a ton of followers and she posts online when she does and she mostly just does it as a side thing.
01:06:57.000Well, let's stop talking about her and talk about this story from the Post Millennial.
01:07:00.000Missouri could consider a plan to offer bounty for reporting illegal immigrants.
01:07:05.000The legislation would create the Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program, which would certify anyone licensed as a bail bond agent to be a bounty hunter to search for and detain illegal immigrants.
01:07:17.000Yo, they're going to make a new dog the Illegal Immigrant Bounty Hunter Show.
01:07:22.000Thankfully, they say only for reporting.
01:07:43.000Your bounty hunters who are armed and have teams and go out, they would have the ability to, I mean, this is kind of wild.
01:07:51.000I mean, if it is, if they are like teams that go out and they try to detain the wrong illegal immigrants, it's going to turn into a big old gunfight.
01:09:35.000Let's take some of the burden off of ICE, off of the National Guard, off of...
01:09:38.000And then this would also help if you do this in states where they're not allowing local and state police to cooperate with ICE. That'd be a nice little privatization of the market.
01:10:11.000Then considering what we saw with that CEO... Well, one of my favorite pieces of rhetoric post-election was the Democrats saying that their Hispanic friends who voted for Donald Trump are not going to be laughing anymore when they get deported.
01:10:25.000It's like, do you think all Hispanics are illegal?
01:10:37.000I mean, you can't expect, like, coherent ideas out of people that engage in this kind of, you know, rhetoric and stuff, but it's real dumb, man.
01:11:06.000I don't know when it's going to happen, when they actually learn.
01:11:09.000That's why I think there needs to be a change in the actual people that are in positions of authority, at least the Democrats in the Democrat Party, whether you call them on the left or not.
01:12:29.000So, I mean, I don't know if it's going to be immediate or in the next cycle or whatever, but I mean, I understand the people that are like, oh, you know, we want to get money out of politics.
01:12:44.000I don't know that you do that without the kind of changes that Donald Trump has brought up and is trying to do.
01:13:32.000I don't know what Joe Biden spent, but I'm sure that it was a lot of money.
01:13:37.000So in 2016, 2020, and 2024, Donald Trump was outspent all three times.
01:13:44.000He was the underdog when it came to the fiscal side of it.
01:13:49.000And one of the big reasons why that money doesn't translate to votes for the Democrats besides the obvious policy issues is that Obama moved a lot of the party infrastructure and took it with him in regards to the data operation after he left office in 2016. And the DNC was left basically having to rebuild their entire operation without Obama's help.
01:14:13.000The DNC, for example, does not really even do micro-targeting at this point.
01:14:18.000They don't even really believe in it as a science.
01:14:20.000The Republican Party micro-targeted the hell out of this election.
01:14:24.000They get voters based on demographics.
01:14:27.000Republicans get voters based on individuals and policies.
01:14:37.000And I want to see conservatives have continued positive results at the ballot box because I do believe that the – I mean just look at the way that markets have reacted since Donald Trump has been elected and the – Foreign leaders?
01:14:53.000And just anecdotally during the last election, I was getting text messages every three or four days from the Kamala campaign, from progressive activist groups asking me to go out and doorknock for Kamala Harris.
01:16:20.000But these videos popping up where, like, Joe Biden was holding up a liquor store, they look like AI for now, but in a year, you're not going to know the difference.
01:16:28.000Look how much it's changed in two years.
01:16:30.000And haven't there been reports of elderly people getting phone calls with AI voices that sound like their family members?
01:16:41.000I'm really excited because I was talking to this one dude who works in tech and he was saying that within a year we can fully automate Timcast.
01:16:49.000Yeah, you literally just type in, you'll grab 10 different news stories that you want for the show, and you'll just drop them into a box and click Generate, and then it'll render the video, and then you're done.
01:17:02.000And it's going to be funny because people will be watching, and it'll be seemingly normal until all of a sudden, like, Shane's on the ceiling, and then he's back in the chair again, and it's like...
01:17:25.000Have you seen those fake videos people make where it's like skinwalkers uncovered?
01:17:29.000And it's like, it's an AI video, but it looks real, and it'll be like a woman standing there, and then she'll turn and turn, as she turns, she becomes a dog or whatever.
01:17:58.000I do think that young people, though, have a harder time with internet reality versus fiction because...
01:18:05.000When I was growing up, we had these classes at our library where we had to learn how to determine what was real on the internet and proper sources to use.
01:18:14.000And apparently they just don't do any of that anymore.
01:18:16.000They don't have computer labs anymore.
01:18:18.000So if you talk to people who are employing Gen Z people, even older Gen Alpha people at this point, they literally do not know how to use computers.
01:19:28.000The popularity could come back, though.
01:19:30.000I mean, going back to the AI hook, it is possible, and there are some websites that already do this where they give you the option to read the article out loud.
01:20:40.000It's like some dude writing a novel about his experience in I think, I mean, I'm biased because I'm the one who writes the novel articles that are a million words long, but I think people should have an appetite for the articles you want, the objective to straight up news, but also long form essays, which is why Substack's doing so well.
01:20:56.000Yeah, I mean, if you like Tucker Carlson's old articles before he really became a television broadcaster, he is an incredible writer, highly recommend.
01:21:04.000Like, we don't really have anybody that writes like that anymore.
01:21:09.000And I would say the other problem with the long-form content is that you have people assigned to these type of essays, but they don't even actually go to the place that they're writing about.
01:21:17.000Where should people go if they're actually interested in learning how to write like that?
01:21:30.000Yeah, you're saying you want to write like that.
01:21:33.000But when you write like a gonzo piece about how you went to go meet with a Civil War historians who are telling the story and you say like, you know, I'm driving down this road and there's a man that's a story I totally understand.
01:22:24.000But they got hijacked by activists who will try to write, you know, you want to get that information, but then they'll spend three paragraphs selling you on their identity and all this other stuff that they learned in their horrible journalism school, which I taught at for a while.
01:22:38.000So I get that it's rotting from the inside.
01:22:41.000Am I, am I, is there any regulation about me stating my current gains from BuzzFeed?
01:23:04.000And so it's kind of wild that a story I learn about, the moment the story breaks, the minute it's published, then of course I'm going to try and fact check it to the best of my ability.
01:23:13.000But usually we kind of just trust the media.
01:24:56.000BuzzFeed News ran a story, or BuzzFeed, whatever, I don't know which outlet it was, that a man was stabbed to death over a Popeye's chicken sandwich.
01:25:07.000They wrote this story claiming that a guy went to Popeye's and was in line for a chicken sandwich and a fight broke out and he got stabbed to death and died.
01:25:51.000Dealing with being, you know, cut in line or having someone be mad about it and just talking it out and letting someone order their food, this guy decided to murder our family member.
01:25:59.000So I hit up BuzzFeed rather calmly, like, hey, Ben.
01:26:04.000You guys ran the story claiming a black man was killed over a chicken sandwich.
01:26:07.000I just wanted to know that's not true.
01:27:17.000And I was like, yeah, but like part of the idea of the show is transcending identity.
01:27:21.000Like there's literally a line in Ghost in the Shell where one of the guys asks the major why she prefers female bodies when you can choose any prosthetic body.
01:27:29.000And I'm like, so this actually, it really does fit.
01:27:32.000And they were like, yeah, but we're going to go ahead and write it anyway.
01:27:36.000And I was like, I'm a fan of Ghost in the Shell and they don't care.
01:27:39.000They just want to write the garbage and make the money.
01:27:42.000Then when they issue a retraction, when they get things wrong, they make money off that too.
01:27:46.000If the New York Times writes fake news and gets a million views, and then they get threatened with a lawsuit, they retract it, the retraction is an article as well that makes money too.
01:27:54.000Maybe not so much for the New York Times because they're mostly subscriber-driven, but for some of these outlets that run ads, they love it.
01:28:00.000They'll be like, we'll get a million on the article that's fake, and then we'll get 50,000 on the retraction.
01:28:26.000So they, and then when having to post announced at one point they were going to get rid of their comment section, people were like, wow, because the sort of like, the insider journalism organization secret was everybody knew that was really driving page views was that people wanted to argue with, you know, conservatives and liberals were fighting with each other.
01:28:43.000Was that something you think Breitbart was a part of with the comment stuff?
01:28:46.000Or is that I don't know, but this is before Twitter.
01:28:48.000So you're on the internet, Huffington Post emerges, it sounds official, they post an article, and there's comments where you can say, this is dumb, this politician should do this, and then you can respond and say, you're dumb.
01:29:14.000I mean, it used to be people would say, oh, don't read the comments because they're always full of vitriol because angry people are the ones that generally comment.
01:29:22.000And as soon as Twitter was created, it's like, okay, this is...
01:30:20.000Yeah, you gotta go to your analytics and you can look and then this explains why all these liberals are getting angry because they're not making any money.
01:30:27.000And then their engagement farmers are making tons of money.
01:31:48.000Speaking of viral moments that lead to insanity...
01:31:53.000You know, after Joe pardoned his son, Hunter, I was just thinking, like, how many more historically unprecedented things can we handle in one year?
01:32:56.000I love what he says, but I'm worried about our government absorbing AI. I'm worried about, I want to strip away the government to nothing, but I'm worried about implementing an AI government.
01:33:07.000Because it's like a bigger version of what we're talking about with the 90% error rate for UnitedHealth.
01:33:12.000We're not ready for AI. Like, our AI is too stupid.
01:35:09.000There was one famous viral video like 10 years ago where a guy who was a big music producer explained how they make pop stars and how they make the songs.
01:35:19.000There was one video I watched where a music producer explained – I forgot what it's called.
01:35:23.000But it was the OEO trend that we saw in music for a while where all of these big songs.
01:35:28.000And it's like basically what happens is there's a certain song that will get a lot of attention and they'll remake it 800 times in ways that's hard for you to recognize.
01:35:38.000but we can see it when we're doing the mix and in the background.
01:35:41.000Beats per minute, the key of the song, the pacing, the time, all of that stuff, and it's all the same.
01:35:48.000There was one viral video, like, I think this was like 15 years ago, where a guy took some random woman who could not sing, and then made a pop video explaining how fake and manufactured everything is.
01:36:24.000But I think mathematically music solved and they figured out how to make the most mentally appealing array of sound mathematically.
01:36:33.000But AI has just cranked it up to the millionth degree.
01:36:37.000That's part of why I think theatrics have become such a big factor in live music today, whether you're dealing with bands like In This Moment or a band, at least in hard rock and stuff like that.
01:36:49.000In This Moment, bands like Sleep Token.
01:37:05.000In the 90s there was such a backlash against the theatrics of the 80s.
01:37:10.000Everybody wanted to come out wearing their dad's sweater and baggy ripped jeans and just play their instrument and that was the focus.
01:37:16.000Nowadays it's totally different and if you don't have something that sets you apart From other bands, something that's memorable, even if you have good songs and good music, it's tough to get some kind of traction.
01:37:29.000I'm thinking of Phil Anselmo saying, we don't have dragons coming out of the speakers.
01:38:50.000That, in my view, like, one of the key components of the music industry is making music for video, for intros, for outros, skate videos, for instance.
01:39:00.000I'm talking to the crew here and I'm like, we don't need to license music anymore if we're looking for backing tracks.
01:39:04.000Just go on Suno, type in the kind of song you want, hit render, and it'll give you a minute to two minutes of a song you can use for the background of anything you need.
01:41:18.000If you go on my Instagram and scroll way back to two years ago and look at the early AI generated image of Nancy Pelosi, it looks like a caricature grotesque image.
01:41:27.000If right now—and it was a year later I brought this up—you could render a full, normal-looking picture of her.
01:41:33.000Today, you can make a full video of her purchasing $15 ice cream, and it looks real.
01:41:39.000So Ben Affleck's looking at the modern iteration of AI video and being like, ah, but it doesn't understand taste.
01:41:59.000I mean, so I'm a huge country music fan.
01:42:01.000And one of the biggest things that's happened in the country music industry recently There's a huge growth of independent artists outside of the Nashville machine that have gained amazing traction for doing exactly what Phil's talking about, telling stories.
01:42:17.000You look at people like Charles Wesley Godwin, Wyatt Flores, Coulter Wall.
01:42:23.000And the AI is going to take them all, analyze how long someone listens to one part of the song.
01:42:29.000It doesn't just know what song you like.
01:42:31.000It knows when you're, like, if you're playing the song on your phone, it's got the camera looking into your eyes.
01:42:37.000And it knows what part of the song triggered an emotional response.
01:42:42.000How do you replicate Charles Wesley Godwin walking through the streets of West Virginia and seeing street graffiti on a bridge and making a story out of it?
01:43:03.000So if I told a story, if I wrote a song where I said how I was driving in the backcountry in West Virginia and I saw an injured dog and I got out and he came up to me and he was scared and I brought him in my car and then we drove down and I looked for a vet but he didn't have an owner so I decided to adopt him.
01:43:19.000People would be like, wow, I made all that up.
01:43:21.000You know this really, really bummed me out.
01:43:25.000The song, The Freshman by the Verve Pipe, it's totally fake.
01:43:29.000And that's why a lot of artists always said, never tell people what the song's about because they'll get bummed.
01:43:35.000Because when you listen to that song, it's about dudes and these people who are early in college, and this guy's girlfriend commits suicide, and now they don't know how to react to it, and he's like, he never really wept, and it's not our fault, we're not responsible for this.
01:43:48.000And then when you ask him about it, he's like, I was just writing a story.
01:43:50.000And it's like, well, it was a really great song.
01:43:52.000It's kind of a bummer because you thought it was real, but it wasn't.
01:43:54.000AI is going to analyze that to the T, and it's going to replicate it.
01:43:59.000What's going to happen is when it becomes indistinguishable, like what you're saying, people are going to start debating with themselves and others, does it matter?
01:44:17.000And I met a producer when I lived in Seattle who had worked with Early Nirvana, and he said that Kurt would often just groan melodies and then scribble random words to fit the melody structure because he liked the way the song was.
01:45:07.000You know, substance of the argument that it can be faked.
01:45:10.000But if you're telling a story that people can relate to, you do, you know, people do care because, I mean, I've had thousands and thousands of people come up to me and say, this song really helped me through a hard time in my life.
01:45:24.000Yeah, and I guess my point about country music and the way that that industry is changing is that there was a genuine appetite for something that wasn't overly produced radio BS about trucks and guns and pushing, right?
01:45:37.000Like, people wanted a real human emotion expressed in their songs, and luckily you had all these amazing artists out there who were doing that and got famous because of it.
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01:46:39.000Death from afar and fishing says two more days, Tim, on December 7th, 1941, when all the people came together in the attacks of Pearl Harbor.
01:47:04.000El Rojo says, Tim, the reason the gun malfunctioned is because tilt barrel pistols like the Glock require a booster when suppressed to cycle properly.
01:47:12.000Subsonic rounds don't have enough energy to cycle the slide.
01:47:20.000And it does look like he tries to fire and then cycles it and then fires, which is indicative of him not just shooting, cycling, shooting, cycling.
01:48:53.000They're going to say, what's your idea?
01:48:54.000And if you can articulate your idea effectively, they're going to say, okay, what do you need to make it work?
01:49:01.000They're not going to go, that's a great idea.
01:49:03.000I'm going to write it down and have someone else do it.
01:49:05.000Because then they're going to be saying, I'm going to invest more money in trying to figure out your vision that I don't have because the idea makes sense.
01:49:12.000No, they're going to be like, I'll just hire you.
01:49:35.000Cenk Uygur came here and was like, you know, it's funny because, you know what's really funny about Cenk Uygur is 2014, yeah, I think it's like 2014, I meet up with him in Los Angeles, like I saw him at VidCon, shake his hand, and we're talking, and I'm talking about doing YouTube stuff and what I'm seeing, and I was talking about how I tried running ads on Young Turks because we were promoting a documentary and it wouldn't work, and he's like, really?
01:50:36.000Mustak Rakish says, How do you think Taylor would feel if someone posted a picture of Daniel Pearl and said, We want more of this, followed by her own photo?
01:51:36.000So it's like, the aliens will come and infect your head, and then they look normal, but their head can mutate into a gigantic alien weird thing, and it takes over your body.
01:51:46.000But then in the anime, in the manga, I think it is, the alien that infects this one guy accidentally gets his hand.
01:51:53.000So his hand is like a weird alien thing, but he has full control of his body.
01:52:27.000If it infects you and you go to sleep, the hormones you release in REM sleep activate the fungus, which then turns you into a hive, alien-controlled, and they vomit on people to spread the disease.
01:52:41.000Pretty sure Rick and Morty made fun of the film, did a parody of it.
01:52:45.000And then in the movie, they develop a vaccine and cure everybody.
01:52:48.000But it really does feel like that happened, doesn't it?
01:53:16.000Yeah, so there's that documentary HBO did like 20 years ago about Blue Zones.
01:53:22.000I think it was HBO. These are areas where people live to be over 100. They said there are seven things that they identified that they believe leads to longevity, one of which is they only eat till they're 80% full.
01:54:07.000I could be wrong, but I've heard that if, like, you leave a baby unattended for, like, a moderately short period of time, and I'm not saying, like, for a few minutes, but I'm not...
01:54:52.000I always thought that was really interesting because an otherwise healthy baby that has enough energy within it to survive would just die if deprived of contact.
01:55:01.000And these are probably very specific circumstances if they do tend to happen at whatever rate.
01:55:06.000But then hearing about how people who don't have jobs, people who retire have the highest rate of mortality, it feels like an evolutionary component within humans to survive.
01:55:19.000When cells self-destruct if they become damaged or useless.
01:55:23.000So it would make sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
01:55:25.000If you're an old person, if you're an older person and you're in a tribe of people and you're not doing any work or contributing, you are a drag on the energy requirements of that tribe.
01:55:36.000So it makes sense that your body would be like shutting down.
01:55:40.000Tribes where the people who are no longer contributing pass on quickly are more successful than tribes of people where they have to maintain a large elderly population.
01:55:52.000So maybe that's why people who work and that's also why babies who are deprived of human contact just cease being alive.
01:57:01.000I had to go on the healthcare exchange when I first started working at The Spectator because they weren't incorporated in the U.S. yet, so they could only offer healthcare to their U.K. employees.
01:57:09.000And it was $1,200 in a monthly premium for a normal PPO plan.
01:57:17.000I was 27 and healthy, not on any medication, nothing.
01:57:21.000Yep, I had health insurance through my ex-wife's company, and they stopped providing for families, and it was extremely expensive to buy it.
01:57:32.000I don't remember exactly what it was back then, but it was ridiculous, and it was a mess of a policy.
01:57:40.000By our third kid, we were like, we're not going to the hospital this time, we're doing this at home.
01:58:01.000Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I would want the first to be a home birth, but if you're talking about second and third, I think that it's probably more likely because I just feel like there's more things that can go wrong and also the lack of experience, the first one.
01:58:15.000You just need someone in the hospital to advocate for you to not go through all the stuff that they force you, that they think they can force you to do.
01:58:29.000All right, Illuminati says, UnitedHealth is facing lawsuits alleging patients died as a result of medical malpractice, denying them life-saving care they were entitled to.
01:58:37.000The industry has been getting away with murder for far too long.
01:58:48.000But the problems are not solved by these vigilante people in the streets doing messed up Ish, if you know what I mean.
01:58:56.000We need, there's a solution to what ails us, and it is getting in Akash Patel, getting in a Donald Trump.
01:59:04.000We are so close to at least the opening of the gates of a populist victory with Donald Trump's second term and the people he's already chosen.
01:59:40.000With what's going on in the healthcare industry, you look at the power that the people on X have when they express their opinions and Trump listens, like when he got rid of Chronister, I'm saying we are so close to seeing major victories and reformation and accountability The stupidest thing anybody could do is engage in violence like this.
01:59:58.000If it is ideologically driven, these leftists are nuts.
02:00:01.000They're just going to ruin everything.
02:00:11.000Shooter McKevin says, let's not forget that Taylor Lorenz's uncle runs, is involved with the Internet Archive, and allegedly wiped her upper-class history.
02:00:25.000Like, the average person's not going to pay for it, but for the average public figure, you pay a couple grand and a company will go and just wipe the Internet of your existence.
02:00:42.000We're going to talk to you guys as members.
02:00:44.000And of course, if you become a member of TimCast at least $25, not only do you jump the line and get to submit questions immediately, but I hereby decree you're a doctor.
02:00:54.000For whatever that's worth, you can put doctor in your name because I said so.