The NBA is rigged. Is it really as simple as that? Today on the show, we're talking about the latest in the ongoing scandal of the NBA being rigged, and why we think it's actually a big deal. Plus, a new deal that's keeping you up to date on Black Friday!
00:02:29.000I don't know if the whole thing is rigged, but there's this massive scandal.
00:02:33.00034 indictments, professional players getting wrapped up in not just rigging games and flubbing the ball, but also mafia-tied illegal poker games.
00:02:44.000And so, you know, we actually, before the show's getting started, I'm like, does anyone here actually know anything about sports?
00:02:53.000Stephen A. Smith says this is Trump's revenge.
00:02:56.000Despite the fact the investigation has been going on for several years and it started during the Biden administration, Democrats are still trying to find a way to make this Trump's fault that professional coaches and NBA players were ripping people off with illegal rigged poker games and rigging actual NBA basketball games.
00:03:15.000Okay, that's how you know people have lost their minds.
00:03:17.000So let's talk about something kind of normal for once, like the NBA being rigged, which I think most people already assumed.
00:03:22.000So we're going to talk about that and a lot more.
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00:07:44.00041 of those in solitary confinement, which you would think in the United States of America, we would have already, you know, stopped doing that and really, really, it's an abominal practice.
00:07:56.000And if they can do it to me, imagine what they can do to like Joe Schmo.
00:07:59.000Like, no, I'm a privileged person, right?
00:08:30.000Mr. Santos, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
00:08:33.000You have such a fascinating story, and I'm excited to get into it, you know, because I've always been very curious about like who Jews run with in the pen and about the kosher meals over there.
00:11:58.000That's what they called it in the indictment.
00:12:00.000So he was the celebrity presence at the poker table to draw people into these games.
00:12:04.000And then the other indictment was basically match fixing.
00:12:08.000They were saying with the sports betting that the players were feeding information to bookies or to anybody that would be wanting to place a bet, and they would use that information to their advantage.
00:12:18.000So Terry Rogier was the prominent player named here.
00:12:21.000They're calling him a superstar, which is really a bit of an overstatement.
00:12:25.000He was a backup at the Boston Celtics, started playing really well.
00:12:29.000I think he held down the starting gig for like a year or two, and then he signed a huge contract with the Charlotte Hornets.
00:12:34.000So that's what everyone's kind of scratching their heads here is because he's made about $160 million over his career so far.
00:12:39.000He's only 31, so he's still got four or five years left in the league.
00:12:42.000And so, I mean, that's the big thing everyone's kind of looking at is like, these guys, they're not short on cash.
00:12:48.000So why would they need to go into business presumably with the mob?
00:12:51.000That's what's being, you know, obviously speculated here.
00:12:54.000But yeah, so there's two, there's two prongs to this criminal enterprise that are currently being investigated by the FBI.
00:14:57.000Malik Beasley is this famous example that people look into and they say he was throwing matches.
00:15:02.000Terry Rogier, if you go back, there's people that were tweeting after this game specifically saying like, holy crap, dude, if you're going to match fix, you need to make it a little less obvious.
00:15:12.000Yeah, there are viral tweets where people are saying they need to also investigate.
00:15:16.000A ton of other people ended up getting dictated as well.
00:17:04.000Well, there was, wasn't it, they said one of the best players for LA sent a text to another person saying, hey, one of our players is injured.
00:19:42.000Like, you know, you know how the losing team, they have all their Super Bowl winner championship merch already printed so they can be ready to go.
00:19:47.000Well, the Bills lost like four Super Bowls in the 90s in a row.
00:20:45.000Can we just, can we just all agree everything's fake and gay?
00:20:47.000It certainly feels, you know, there's been in America, there's been this sort of reorientation of the American sports fan towards college sports.
00:20:54.000And I think it's because they view it as like a more raw, purified version of sport.
00:20:59.000Because at the pro level, there's just so much shenanigans going.
00:21:01.000Even there's like been scandals with refs where, for example, in soccer, the refs are actually typically the ones getting busted for match fixing.
00:21:24.000Because we went and saw the Nats versus the Sox, and there were several blatantly bad calls by the ump that everyone was confused by, and everyone's booing.
00:21:34.000And I'm just sitting there thinking, like, look, if you want to maximize the amount of games you play to sell more tickets, to sell more hot dogs, you need to control the outcome of the game.
00:21:45.000And there's tens of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars on the line for a lot of these games.
00:21:49.000Why wouldn't they just say, hey, just let them win this one, you know, however you can.
00:21:54.000And you can't absolutely control the outcome, but you can change the direction of your sales, as it were.
00:22:00.000I mean, the umps are not the funnest people.
00:22:02.000And have you seen a little league game?
00:22:17.000Another thing you'll notice in the NBA specifically is the players are very well aware of the money line.
00:22:23.000So when they're coming down to the wire, typically if you're down like six or eight points, you're going to be shooting because you're like, I don't know, maybe we hit two or three threes back to back with 10 seconds to go, like Reggie Miller's done it before.
00:22:32.000But now, if they're right at the money line, right under the money line, they will not take any shots in the last like 30 seconds because they don't want to tick over and ruin bets or presumably their friends.
00:22:50.000Stephen A. Smith suggests today's FBI press conference announcing widespread arrests amid their investigation into illegal gambling was politically motivated and timed to negatively impact the NBA.
00:23:01.000Because we all know Trump's biggest enemy and rival this whole time has been the NBA, I guess.
00:23:08.000But the Democrats are always going to find some reason to make it about Trump.
00:23:12.000How many times for one incident after another have I said Trump is coming?
00:23:58.000When people want to go to a casino, when people want to gamble, when people want to party, whatever the case may be, this was his kind of connection to that.
00:25:45.000Well, they're going to replace it with something way better.
00:25:47.000I really hope he just names it the Trump Annex.
00:25:50.000I mean, I really do because I want it to live enshrined in the minds of every Democrat that will ever come after Trump.
00:25:59.000There is the Trump annex to the White Single.
00:26:02.000I saw a tweet and I did not look into it, but it said that Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi are both older than the East Wing that was just abolished.
00:26:11.000So, I mean, come on, like, it's really, it's not that historic.
00:26:14.000Plus, every single president comes in and makes all kinds of changes.
00:28:05.000I mean, of elected officials, there was a lot of them behind the scenes because it's politics.
00:28:10.000So people do, you know, take precautions.
00:28:14.000But of the ones who were very public about it, I mean, you have Marjorie Taylor Greene, you have Tim Burchett, you have Lauren Bober and Apollina Luna.
00:28:20.000And then you also have people like Rick Rinnell and Alice Johnson.
00:28:26.000And then you have Matt Gates, who's a former congressman.
00:28:29.000So there was a lot of people in the front line, but way more in the back end.
00:33:12.000Yeah, I would have curb stomped Zimmerman 10 ways from Tuesdays with my freaking eyes closed because I was running against a senile candidate who's like 68 years old, fourth run, I think fourth run for Congress, if I'm not mistaken.
00:33:27.000Like he was frail and old and just, you know, but I regret it because I didn't need to do it, but my ambition and my insecurities took over.
00:33:36.000I was also fending off a primary opponent or a potential primary.
00:33:41.000Everything just was like dumb and self, self-inflicted.
00:33:45.000And if I could go backwards and do it again, I would do it so differently because A, people like to say, oh, he's only sorry because he got caught.
00:33:54.000I caused a lot of pain, hurt, and disappointment to a lot of good people that I genuinely like that I'm probably never going to be able to square away that those relationships.
00:36:31.000I'm, I can't respect it, but I'm a little disappointed.
00:36:35.000We were talking about this a moment ago: the lack of unity.
00:36:39.000Matt Walsh has been on the receiving end of heavy criticism for the past several weeks because he said he's willing to unite with anyone on the right to defeat the evil on the left.
00:36:47.000And he said this after Charlie was killed and everyone praised him.
00:36:50.000He said it again after these group chats got leaked and now he's getting flack.
00:36:55.000And I'm just sitting here being like, okay, I hear you, moderate conservative Republicans, that you don't want to unite with, say, Nick Fundis or whoever.
00:37:03.000But when George Santos was in Congress, all of these same people, not literally all of them, but a bunch of conservatives are like, nah, fire him.
00:37:11.000And I'm like, they have Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talaib and these other people who say awful things and are very, very bad and they unify no matter what.
00:37:53.000The ACLU sent out, paid for mailers that went out, you know, and the ACLU doesn't endorse.
00:38:00.000And you pointed out Johnson said, vote your conscience when it came to you.
00:38:04.000And I'm like, listen, if I have to sit here and compare what you're accused of doing to the guy who called for the murder of his rival's children, I'll take the campaign finance violation guy.
00:38:15.000Well, and the other thing, too, is the Democrats, like you were saying, they always unify.
00:38:19.000They don't care who they're unifying around.
00:38:21.000They will back anybody so long as they're part of their tribe.
00:38:52.000And we're just like, yeah, but, you know, a bunch of kids said some goofy stuff on a text.
00:38:58.000I'll say this about the kids in the schools.
00:39:01.000I'm going to try to steal, man, as much as I can because when you go that direction, they'll then try and claim that white supremacists are right wing.
00:39:11.000The alleged assassin in the killing of Charlie Kirk, the ideology is identical to Ocasio-Cortez, who went on the House floor and smeared Charlie Kirk's good name, what, like a week after he was murdered.
00:39:26.000The concern that I have is that the No Kings protesters on the street saying kill ICE agents, the far left and liberals and liberals who are shooting up Tesla.
00:39:37.000It is the exact same ideology as the mainstream Democratic Party.
00:39:41.000Now, when they say the right has their extremists, no, no, no, hold on there, guys, draw a minute.
00:39:46.000There is no moderate conservative with an extremist ideology.
00:41:12.000They were saying, oh, it's so hard to be trans.
00:41:15.000Yeah, so you're going to justify murder.
00:41:17.000It's like, look, as a gay man, it stresses me out because I am being put with these people who clearly have a mental health disorder that I do not do.
00:41:27.000I might be crazy in my own terms, but it has nothing to do with my sexual orientation, right?
00:41:32.000These people literally fight their own body because they're so sick and we're not treating them.
00:41:37.000Also, if you look at like statistics of, you know, homosexuality, that pretty much stays static throughout the years, throughout the decades.
00:42:34.000And the Charlie Kirk assassination happened so quickly after the shooting of the Catholic children in Minneapolis that people almost memory hold it.
00:42:43.000But if you take a look at the illustrations in that man's journal, you will see that his self-portrait is that of Baphomet.
00:42:51.000He sees himself as a demon and he was clearly possessed.
00:42:55.000I will say the last shooting victim came home from the hospital today, the 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head and they had turbulent part of her skull.
00:43:25.000The FBI claims it uncovered a decades-long mafia-led poker ring.
00:43:29.000The alleged scheme involved professional athletes, including Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips, being used as, quote, face cards to attract victims to the table where high-tech methods were used by the mafia to rig the games, says the indictment.
00:43:45.000And I am proud to say, for the loyal viewers of Timcast, you would not have been fleeced by this because we talked about this two years ago.
00:43:53.000In one instance, Jen Hu, 37 from Brooklyn, sent chilling messages to an alleged victim of the ring, identified as John Doe Five for not paying up.
00:44:21.000You've been running your mouth unchecked, he warned.
00:44:23.000In the days that followed, the diamond claims, who is said to have made good on his threat when he allegedly assaulted Doe Five, quote, I punched somebody in the face the other day.
00:44:32.000Ish unraveling quick, he told the unnamed recipient.
00:44:36.000Now, we've got this video right here from Timcast News.
00:45:06.000It started in LA and then it came to Vegas.
00:45:09.000for a few days and it was all built around Chauncey Phillips.
00:45:13.000And I had heard about the game and the person who told me about it was like, look, I know the game runners.
00:45:20.000I'm telling you 100% this game is on the up and up.
00:45:24.000And I was like, well, I know a lot of the people that are involved and I'm telling you 100% that it is not on the up and up.
00:45:32.000And, you know, we kind of went back and forth and I agreed that like I just wasn't going to go play it.
00:45:37.000But I had some friends who went and played it both in LA and in Vegas.
00:45:43.000And it obviously was for sure confirmed to be cheated.
00:45:48.000Like people who clearly didn't even understand the rules of No Limit Hold'em are just like jamming hundreds of big blinds in with like a gutty and then just thrilling it.
00:46:32.000High-tech sophisticated technology like from the movie Oceans 13.
00:46:37.000The machine that shuffled the cards was not just randomly mixing them up.
00:46:40.000It had technology hidden inside that could read the cards in the deck, predict which player had the best hand and relay that information to somebody off-site.
00:46:47.000That person would then use a cell phone to communicate the intel to someone at the table who would steer the other cheating players with secret signals like tapping certain chips or body parts.
00:46:57.000In some of the rigged games, the poker chip trays had hidden cameras that could read the cards on the table.
00:47:03.000That one doesn't seem to make sense to me, but we can speculate, I guess.
00:47:08.000The cards also sometimes had markings that were visible only to people wearing specially designed contact lenses or sunglasses.
00:47:14.000I will stress, we have those playing cards.
00:47:16.000Yeah, they're marked with on the back of each card is a very big number that can only be seen if you're wearing UV glasses or contact lenses.
00:47:25.000We have them as a gag because we are filming a comedy bit or something.
00:48:02.000Today on the culture, we had Doug Polk, obviously legendary poker player.
00:48:06.000And he said, he's like, in my entire career, I've never played a house game because he's like, there's just too many spots to look out for.
00:48:14.000I got to challenge him, though, because I watched the interview you did with Doug Polk.
00:48:18.000He's probably one of the most famous, if not the most famous players right now, because he's got a big YouTube presence.
00:48:23.000But he said, if you're playing a game, if you're playing a home game, which is like a private game, which is very, very common, and you see a shuffle machine, you should be worried.
00:48:32.000If you see a Deckmate 2 shuffle machine, because those have cameras inside of them, this is a security feature, actually, so you can tell if someone's adding cards or changing the structure of the deck.
00:48:44.000It'll warn you and it'll spit the deck back out.
00:48:46.000But hackers figured out two years ago how to plug something into the USB or Ethernet port.
00:48:51.000And that camera, it tracks the position of every card.
00:48:54.000And then it sends the, once the deck is shuffled, it sends it out to a random person.
00:48:58.000It can send it out to any person they want through Bluetooth.
00:49:01.000And then we talked about this a couple years ago when it happened.
00:49:03.000On Timcast IRL, researchers in Vegas at DEF CON, the hacker convention, said they figured this out.
00:49:10.000And a bunch of commenters and people were saying, but they still cut the deck.
00:49:13.000That doesn't change the order of the cards.
00:49:18.000So long as any, so anybody who has access to the deck information from the hack machine, when they see the first visible cards that come out on the board, it's called the flop, they know what card everyone has.
00:49:30.000And if you're in hand, meaning like you've got cards, you're playing the game and you're wearing headphones, you can look down at your cards.
00:49:37.000You can easily relay that information in a million different ways, and then your person who's sitting a table over can tell you if you're going to win or not.
00:49:44.000Here's what gets crazy about this is they didn't need to do it.
00:49:48.000This is what I don't understand about this story.
00:49:53.000I bet if you went to Matt Berkey or Doug Polk and said, you want to rip off a bunch of morons at a high-stakes game with Chauncey Billips and other pro athletes, how would you do it?
00:50:02.000They'd be like, we'd invite fish to come play poker.
00:50:10.000It sounds like the mob was like, let's cheat them because they didn't know how to play poker.
00:50:16.000I feel like you go to anybody who knows how to play poker and they're going to be like, oh, we'll run a game at the table.
00:50:20.000You get two players, play on a team, and you basically just, you can play.
00:50:26.000I'll try to keep the example really simple, but two players at one table can do a handful of things from very, very technically above board to super illicit.
00:50:37.000There was a cheating ring at MGM National Harbor.
00:50:40.000This is what I was told by the people who worked there.
00:51:22.000They'll invite Chinese millionaires and billionaires to play these games where they know they're going to win and the Chinese millionaires and billionaires are going to lose.
00:51:29.000But these Chinese, like these guys from Macau, they're like, I literally don't care if I lose $5 million.
00:52:55.000It's extremely easy to memorize where one card is going to end up when you cut the deck perfectly in the middle and then count to where it was.
00:53:02.000And there's a guy that I follow on Instagram.
00:53:03.000He's one of the best, if not the best in the world.
00:53:05.000I think you pronounce the name Jason Ladaney.
00:53:07.000I recommend you guys check out his videos.
00:55:17.000So you actually can't control all these circumstances.
00:55:20.000That's actually legally gambling in a lot of circumstances.
00:55:23.000Gambling winnings, whether it be blackjack or tournaments, falls into the same category, which is, I think it's called W-2G or something like this.
00:55:31.000So the question around poker has longly been debated because poker is considered social poker, like Texas Holdham, PLO, Hilo, Pineapple, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:56:19.000And so professionals in Texas Holdham, which is substantially more popular, they know almost all of the math for the cards that you get and the position you're in and the likelihood you're going to win.
00:58:27.000Because it makes you look bad for re-election.
00:58:29.000The number one cardinal rule of office is do not show people your means and your ability to go play a game and lose tens of thousands of dollars when people can't even equate sometimes the summation of $100,000 to make their bills.
00:58:43.000You're asking, and you're saying, I need you to donate to me and I need your vote.
00:58:52.000You know, I got that thrown at me a lot when I was running because I did give my campaign $700,000.
00:58:58.000And a lot of people, like, you know, the grassroot people, they'd be like, well, if you gave yourself that much money, why do you need my $5?
00:59:05.000It's a very, you know, it's a tight rope.
00:59:07.000You're like, because it's not enough and I don't have any more.
00:59:10.000Or, well, if you gave $700, that means you can put more.
00:59:14.000So the last thing you want, and you're right on the money, the last thing JB Pritzker wants is to go and say, well, this wasn't actually a winning.
01:00:10.000He doesn't want to come out and say, I pulled $10 million out of the bank, screwed around, willing to risk $10 million, and then ended up just coming out with another million bucks while Chicago burns.
01:01:51.000The recipient, say they're running a super PAC or a member of Congress or something like that, says, I too will play a high-stakes game with tens of thousands of dollars.
01:02:02.000Bribe Er says, I'm going to bet $15,000 on these two really good cards.
01:02:08.000Recipient then says, Oh, yeah, I'm all in.
01:02:12.000The guy with the bribe now has a choice.
01:02:14.000He can match the amount of money this guy raised or fold or fold.
01:03:15.000I mean, I've been up hundreds of thousands of dollars only to turn around and leave at a loss.
01:03:21.000And again, starting with like 10 grand and just getting really lucky, playing for hours, I've sat, the longest I've sat at a blackjack table was 16 hours, which is psychotic.
01:05:48.000The issue here is that we could advertise to impressionable young kids who are watching ESPN and just like sports, but then we're, you know, we're telling them on ESPN and Sports Center that, oh, the odds, like, I don't care about the sports odd for my sports.
01:05:59.000Sports has become tainted so much by this BS gambling.
01:07:58.000There are prominent Twitch streamers and influencers who have started gamble streaming where they play these ridiculous games online and they get millions of views from gambling money.
01:08:30.000Most people I see, the overwhelming majority, will sit down, have a free drink, play a hundred bucks or whatever, and go, oh, that's enough for me.
01:09:02.000So the problem is our culture, our society, and the fact that we are becoming increasingly degenerate, which is why I said we should not have casinos being opened everywhere.
01:09:11.000We should allow for, say, Vegas or Atlantic City.
01:09:14.000And maybe some reservation casinos are fine.
01:09:17.000But the fact that Maryland now has, I shouldn't say just Maryland, but within two hours driving distance of us right now is like 12 casinos.
01:09:45.000We have these pervasive ads on things that used to be, you know, used to just hang out with the boys, drink a couple of beers, watch a couple of football games, but now they're throwing this gambling stuff in your face.
01:09:55.000Moreover, you're not allowed to be an advantage player on these facts.
01:09:58.000If you come out a winning player, they will ban you from the app.
01:10:01.000If you think people weren't gambling on sports until now, I got to bridge this.
01:10:04.000No, Tim, but I'll tell you, the market exploded.
01:10:22.000I think we could look up what the numbers are.
01:10:23.000I think this is like a $100 billion in the US.
01:10:26.000This is a mathematical argument in government that I don't agree with because it and while obviously guns and gambling are very different things, the argument that because we have a broken culture of mentally ill people who murder does not mean I shouldn't be allowed to have a gun.
01:10:40.000And because there is a society that is encouraging people to be degenerates doesn't mean you should be allowed to place a bet on a sports team.
01:10:46.000If everyone in this country was of sound moral and principled mind and said, Look, I make like a $25 bet once a month for fun with my buddies just because we want to add a little excitement.
01:11:33.000Are you going to punish the great majority because a few people have a problem?
01:11:37.000It's like, are you going to punish people from drinking soda because some people are punishing people by not letting them have unlimited access to bedwater?
01:13:16.000If you have, if everybody in this country had the same moral structure, moral worldview of Charlie Kirk, we wouldn't make drugs illegal.
01:13:24.000But that's why we're not even doing them.
01:13:26.000It's like simply, we're not in the middle of the day.
01:13:28.000The problem I have with this argument is what you're telling me is people are so stupid, we have to make sure they can't get access to things that can hurt them.
01:14:33.000Well, there's a thing the body politic largely agree on is acceptable and normal.
01:14:36.000However, the problem is it's now being violated and they haven't written it down.
01:14:40.000So in the American colonies, when they said, we'll just have an unwritten constitution, you had the anti-I believe it was the anti-federalist saying, no, no, no, no, no, hold on.
01:14:51.000Because different colonies had different rules.
01:14:52.000And if there was going to be a federal authority above them connected to another, they wanted guarantees certain things could never be done.
01:14:59.000Now we have this issue between the left and the right, where the left says the Second Amendment clearly says a regulated militia, which means government control and National Guard.
01:15:11.000And the right says regulated meant well-serviced and militia was of the people.
01:15:16.000Which body is correct in their interpretation of the Second Amendment?
01:15:49.000We brought specific protein shakes for athletes that were coming, and we had like three of them.
01:15:53.000And people showed up and said, these must be for everybody and drank them.
01:15:57.000And then we did not have protein shakes for the athletes who requested them.
01:16:00.000So then we said, we have to put a sign on the door that says, do not take the last item and do not take things if you've not, if you don't know who's in the middle of it.
01:16:07.000Tim, can I ask you a question on that?
01:16:09.000Working in corporate America, this was always an issue.
01:16:37.000And morality is not something that just magically emerges within individuals and within societies.
01:16:43.000It needs to be organized and dictated to a certain extent.
01:16:46.000Do you think that people can't know what God requests of them without someone having written it down and then told them?
01:16:54.000No, but I think that, I mean, first of all, if you want to know what God wants you to do and you ask God, like some people are going to think they get an answer and some people are going to think they don't get an answer, right?
01:17:04.000I mean, that's a pretty amorphous way to go.
01:17:06.000And it's not really a way to organize a society.
01:17:09.000But if you put down all of these things in a, you know, on some stone tablets, for example, and you have a couple of different categories of how these laws work, then I think it makes a lot more sense.
01:17:21.000Perhaps, but we can say, okay, let's look at this.
01:18:35.000And things change over time and people can fight it.
01:18:38.000If it was ever intended as a total free-for-all, that you can just say anything.
01:18:43.000The point is, the founding fathers said, we must have the rights to freedom of speech.
01:18:48.000And then everyone went, of course, the ability to express your opinion on matters political is an absolute if we're going to have a new nation.
01:18:55.000Hence, we wouldn't have had this country because the king was shutting us down.
01:18:59.000And then someone went, I don't like Jesus.
01:19:09.000What they had argued was the First Amendment only applied insofar as your opinion was well within the Overton window of the colonies at the time.
01:19:20.000If you look back, I think the way that we've interpreted the first, the second, whatever amendment you want to bring into claim, even the 10th Amendment recently with states, right?
01:19:28.000I mean, you can go on and on on all of these, but the reality is I think culture and time also influence a lot of how we interpreted a lot of these things.
01:19:37.000Let's just remember that these documents and these laws were written approximately 250 years ago and established to start the great idea that is the Constitutional Republic of the United States.
01:19:48.000So the problem with it is, I mean, I'm a free speech absolutist, but I do believe we have to have guardrails and moral conscience guardrails on what we say.
01:19:57.000For instance, the lovely, morbidly obese teacher who was doing, you know, I think that should be reprimanded.
01:20:06.000There should be social consequences to that.
01:20:08.000So let me tell you guys a funny story about West Virginia.
01:20:10.000Do you know that alcohol is illegal in West Virginia completely?
01:20:34.000Because what happened was in 1914, they said we are going to ban alcohol.
01:20:39.000We're going to prohibit it, codified it in the Constitution of the state.
01:20:43.000And then later on, when prohibition gets lifted, you get a bunch of politicians in West Virginia being like, but we banned it in the Constitution.
01:22:25.000The level of loitering that is going to take place in Caesar's Times Square.
01:22:30.000It's going to reverse all of Giuliani's good.
01:22:32.000When they're doing Bally's Chicago on the river, I'll put it this way: it is going to literally be the epicenter of homeless drug addicts that are going to go nuts at a very Times Square, Caesars.
01:23:47.000So if someone says this casino is going to generate a billion dollars a year, put money in your pocket, he's going to be like, how many cops do you need?
01:23:54.000These are the people that said defund the police.
01:23:56.000And then when the police arrested Trump supporters, they clapped and cheered.
01:23:59.000Well, I guess you're right because at the end of the day, then he'll have a slush fund to fund his free buses in his supermarkets in the city of the government.
01:24:06.000But I don't think he actually cares about those things.
01:24:54.000The problem we have right now in the United States in the culture war is that there are two distinct moral worldviews.
01:24:59.000The two parent factions I describe, or actually I should say, quote to Stephen Marsh, who said this: the multicultural democracy and the constitutional republic.
01:25:07.000We here all represent the constitutional republic, and the left, we would describe as the multicultural democracy.
01:25:12.000They have an entirely different moral worldview.
01:25:14.000I believe it's a cult, and their moral worldview is literally just marching lockstep with dear leader.
01:26:14.000What does it matter that we wrote down these laws and codified them as our formal system if Democrats are doing everything to stop it from happening?
01:26:21.000They are aiding and abetting criminals.
01:27:57.000I was shout out to Vishburgh, who was my operations director, who literally, literally, we were there.
01:28:03.000He's like, look, look, boss, those guys are instructing the immigrants on the other side of the fence, Americans in Mexico, funded by USAID.
01:28:12.000Say danger and don't say anything else.
01:28:24.000He spent three years in prison for having raped her, and he wasn't deported because the Court of Appeals said that the rape didn't last.
01:28:31.000The duration of the event was not long enough.
01:28:34.000And so he's not being deported because he didn't rape her for long enough for it to be considered a serious crime under apparently a UN agreement from 1951.
01:28:44.000There is more to the story because I was trying to find the details of the case that the way Sweden defines rape is not the way.
01:28:52.000And the way we do, apparently, you got to correct me on this one because all I read was a cursory summary of it.
01:28:58.000It said that there was no penetration.
01:29:14.000To say a lot of people think it's like he pinned her down, and you know, well, well, there's the case in the UK.
01:29:20.000I think it's, I'm not sure if it's Pakistani or Bangladeshi, where he actually raped a young girl, and the courts literally slapped him on the wrist and said, Well, you know, culturally, taking women by force is okay where they come from.
01:29:47.000What bothers me the most is when I was in Congress, I would hear people like Tony Gonzalez, Mr. Amnesty, say, Oh, I want to pass more laws.
01:29:56.000I'm like, dude, we already have immigration laws that are not enforced.
01:30:01.000Like, we have all these laws on the books that are not enforced, but we continuously put more, I know it's your point.
01:30:09.000It's just infuriating because every single thing that you hear these people pander to create profiles for themselves really stems from ignorance.
01:30:18.000We have so many members of Congress that don't even know the laws on the books.
01:30:25.000We, as a body politic, recognize there are bad things happening in our country and the law is not being enforced.
01:30:29.000We tried saying, We're going to write these things down and post the sign so you all know we're going to do it.
01:30:35.000Democrats responded with, We literally don't care what you think is illegal.
01:30:39.000We're going to allow drugs, we're going to create injection sites, we're going to allow illegal immigrants, we're going to arrest anyone who opposes us.
01:30:46.000And if your law enforcement comes in, we'll arrest them too.
01:30:49.000And that's where we're currently at right now, threatening to arrest our law enforcement for enforcing the law.
01:30:54.000Writing it down did not change the culture of the multicultural democracy.
01:30:58.000The only thing that's going to change it is if Donald Trump, like I got to be honest, guys, looking at everything, I think the only solution is Reconstruction.
01:31:06.000Sending the National Guard into these blue cities and removing people from power and having new elections, rewriting this stuff.
01:31:13.000Because you've got corruption, people are fleeing these places, and all that's left are the ignorant communists who keep empowering communists.
01:31:56.000I want to make sure everyone understands.
01:31:57.000I got an argument with Grok, so we got to understand this, okay?
01:31:59.000And I got an argument with Grok intentionally because these large language models are built on the corporate press narrative machine, which are intent on lying to you.
01:32:09.000The Civil War started at Fort Sumter in, I believe it was like March of what was it?
01:32:14.000Was it March of might have been April?
01:32:21.000A couple weeks after that, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus.
01:32:25.000We were still not in the actual civil war.
01:32:28.000Historically, we say Fort Sumter started it, but it was actually two months later at the first Battle of Bull Run where people were picnicking on the hillside as Confederate and Union forces were about to fight because they were like, There's no civil war.
01:33:08.000Right now, Donald Trump could suspend habeas corpus, and the precedent would be the exact same as Abraham Lincoln.
01:33:14.000I am sending troops into states that are in rebellion against federal law, and these troops are going to make sure the law is being upheld and enforced.
01:33:22.000And we're suspending habeas corpus to protect them from saboteurs because ICE has been terrorist has been shot, shot at, they've been rammed, they've been attacked.
01:33:31.000The pretext for Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was the potential for sabotage from Confederate sympathizers.
01:33:37.000Lincoln then arrested members of the Maryland legislature.
01:33:40.000All of this before it was called the Civil War.
01:33:44.000It wasn't until around 1863, people in this country said, We are in a civil war.
01:33:49.000So, understand where we're at right now, where no one's calling it a civil war.
01:33:52.000What it would look like is Trump goes on TV today and says, We have made several attempts to send in National Guard into these jurisdictions to aid our ICE law enforcement.
01:34:03.000Here is here, eight USC 1324 clearly makes this illegal.
01:34:11.000However, far-left terrorists have been attacking our personnel, sabotaging vehicles, railroad tracks, and shooting at our law enforcement officers, ramming them in vehicles.
01:34:19.000So we are going to suspend habeas corpus on the highways when these vehicles are in transport, meaning we can arrest you for any reason.
01:34:27.000If he did that, it would be identical precedent to what Abraham Lincoln did when he suspended habeas corpus along the railways from Pennsylvania through Maryland into D.C. Two years after, two years later, when Trump wins, Congress will then say, we hereby vote that Trump was right to do it the whole time.
01:36:11.000I mean, look, seven states seceded from the Union, and there were four other states that were two to one in favor of the union until Lincoln sent troops into the South.
01:36:19.000They said, holy crap, Lincoln is a tyrant.
01:36:23.000And then Lincoln won, and he sent in the troops for Reconstruction.
01:36:27.000So the precedent of what happened in the Civil War with all of these liberals who would also agree, Abraham Lincoln, the greatest president we've ever had.
01:36:35.000It's like, okay, wait till you see what that looks like.
01:37:12.000I agree with everything you're saying, right?
01:37:14.000And then we had Sherman who marched to the sea, raising farmlands, massacring civilians, destroying railroads, making sure they couldn't eat.
01:37:21.000And boy, if you go down south, nobody forgot Sherman.
01:37:27.000Slavery was bad, and the South was trying to secede.
01:37:30.000So the scorched earth war tactics of Sherman, massacring civilians, burning down farms, raising, just destroying generations of homes, even among people who were not involved, was a necessary.
01:37:50.000And again, these are barbaric tactics of war, but then I always remind people when we talk about war and wartimes, what's the number one currency of war?
01:37:58.000And everybody looks at me like, what do you mean?
01:38:05.000So again, and tactics are in some cases.
01:38:10.000We've heard a lot of testimony in Congress about Afghanistan and Iraq and some things that are reprehensible that were done by our troops that we have to sit here and be like, well, that's not good.
01:38:20.000And I love our veterans and I love the fact that we're out there for a war for freedom and whatnot.
01:38:50.000And the person continued to antagonize me.
01:38:52.000And it was like this whole blown out debate.
01:38:54.000So you're going to find crazier people who sympathize with wrong regardless.
01:38:58.000My point is simply the only thing that needs to happen for Trump to win is Trump decides to escalate his tactics and then he has to succeed in his strategies.
01:39:06.000After that, history is written by the victors.
01:39:28.000Yeah, she launched the ICE accountability project where she's calling basically to dox all ICE agents.
01:39:38.000She's like, we're going to put up pictures of what they look like and what they're wearing and their shoes and their cars and where they live.
01:39:44.000And then she had the nerve to say it wasn't doxing.
01:41:36.000Did you see where on ESPN today they were breaking the story and on their Chiron on the bottom, they have their ESPN bet, like Chiron advertisement.
01:41:44.000And they just took it off like in the middle of the segment, and it's just like a gray box there.
01:41:47.000Like some PA got chewed out, like, dude, no, no, get it off!
01:44:29.000It's like a bunch of like white-collar whiny guys and then a bunch of like old drug dealers who've been doing so much long time that they're like at the tail end of their sentences and they're not going to mess up.
01:44:48.000So there's this actually really conservative Jewish guy there who really managed to get some guys to completely convert only to the kosher meal.
01:45:40.000I think that a religious moral structure is a legitimate means of writing something down.
01:45:45.000I believe that humans getting into a room and then writing down what they think is important and matters for other people won't make the other people do what they want them to do unless they already shared the intrinsic moral worldview.
01:45:56.000But I'm also saying that the law can influence whether or not society has those common principles.
01:46:16.000I think civil law is derivative of the moral worldview.
01:46:19.000And this is a Christian nation founded by people of a Christian moral tradition.
01:46:24.000And if you did not have that worldview, you would not care for the laws that were written because you'd view them as others, which is what we're experiencing now.
01:46:32.000Yeah, like in order for the Constitution to make any sense, you have to be participating in the culture in which the Constitution was written.
01:46:38.000And that's where the breakdown comes, like with the Second Amendment.
01:46:41.000You need to be participating in the culture around the Second Amendment with the First Amendment.
01:46:53.000You have to be a participant in that original, like Aron McIntyre and Tucker talked about this recently, and Oron pointed to that sort of original sort of Anglo-Protestant culture as something that you kind of have to sort of bring it to Afghanistan as well.
01:47:09.000To the extent that we can still describe this country as having a Christian culture, it's one that's inherited, not earned by the people who enjoy it.
01:47:20.000And we inherited laws that, of course, were written originally and codified by Christians.
01:47:50.000We wrote down these laws, and in Dearborn, Michigan, the Muslims are still chopping off lady parts.
01:47:54.000I mean, the Constitution was designed mostly lecturing the government rather than the people.
01:47:59.000I mean, this is obviously because it stems from like the Magna Carta and like when the Magna Carta was established, that was more putting restrictions on the king because like in pre-Norman English society.
01:48:09.000All right, the point, the point being that when the founding fathers were like, we all agree we have a right to free speech, you, government, you can't infringe upon it.
01:48:17.000Clearly, we don't mean blasphemy, though.
01:48:19.000They didn't write down, they didn't mean blasphemy.
01:48:21.000So the point is, we wrote these laws derivative of the Christian moral tradition.
01:48:26.000And that's why these laws don't matter to people in Dearborn, Michigan, because they're Islamic.
01:48:54.000There's also just, let me ask you guys a question.
01:48:57.000If the town you live in, Mary, it's like passed a law.
01:49:02.000Mary, if the town you live in passed a law saying women weren't allowed to go outside without being accompanied by a man anymore and you had to wear a burqa, would you agree with that law and say, okay, or would you be like, no.
01:49:29.000What I mean is, you know, historically, in, and you're right, that when people share the same religious foundation that informs their morality, they don't need to be policed.
01:49:42.000But historically, in societies mostly comprised of devout believing Christians, they still did codify Christian morality into law.
01:49:54.000And it still mattered that they codified it.
01:49:57.000So the issue that the way I see it is, largely it was not in smaller communities as their morality was already informed by the Bible and the community was small enough to where they basically knew what you could and couldn't get away with.
01:50:12.000As society started growing and becoming when society got big, they said we're going to start writing things down, Congress, things like that.
01:50:20.000But everyone still largely agreed with the gist of it.
01:50:22.000That's why I say 95% of the laws because there's certainly there's like property rights and how tall can your sign be?
01:50:28.000These are very, these are getting in the weeds.
01:50:30.000But when you started going multicultural, writing things down did not matter.
01:50:35.000Writing the law down to inform morality, the point where I disagree with it is the ideas of what is the true moral worldview we have come from the Christian world tradition.
01:50:46.000Whether any atheist wants to agree or not, it doesn't matter because it's a fact.
01:50:52.000Our amendments are rooted in things like Blackstone's formulation, the precedent set by Christians and the teachings of the Bible.
01:50:57.000And you don't have to be a Christian to follow those things.
01:51:00.000However, we then start getting multicultural society.
01:51:03.000When we wrote these laws down, like your flag can only be 20 feet high, it was because people of the shared moral worldview were like, okay, I get it.
01:51:11.000If I want to challenge this, here's the process by which we settle our disagreements and what we can or can't do pertaining to certain laws.
01:51:18.000So we ban some things, we ban some other things, we say, okay, right?
01:51:39.000They understand we are telling these people, we, as the Constitutional Republic of America, will lock you up and throw away the key if you violate what we've written down.
01:51:49.000So their response is, make sure they don't catch you.
01:51:52.000Well, I mean, even beyond just the Christian, because we're introducing two pieces to the recipe here: the Christian component and whatnot.
01:52:00.000But even like you said, Liberia is an example.
01:52:02.000I mean, Liberia is a predominantly Christian country.
01:52:04.000So there has to be that cultural element is like absolutely necessary in combination with each other.
01:52:10.000So it's like America fundamentally is like a Western country.
01:52:13.000So it's like the Christian, it is true that is part of the recipe, but it has to be in combination with the cultural background of the people as well, or it won't work.
01:52:22.000I mean, Liberia, exhibit A. And same, like Kenya.
01:52:25.000I mean, Kenya inherited pretty much all of theirs from Britain, and they're fundamentally different from Britain, not anymore, but they used to be fundamentally different from Britain.
01:52:32.000Let's grab some more of your chats and carry in the conversation.
01:52:36.000Melania Mama says, heard a theory that the droning of these boats is not about narco-terrorism or regime change.
01:52:43.000Iran and China are running operatives out of Venezuela.
01:52:45.000They plan to activate cells in the U.S. when they're ready to take Taiwan in 2027.
01:52:51.000Oh, that's a theory I actually espoused when I was still in the house because of the immigration.
01:52:58.000So many Chinese nationals at the border.
01:53:01.000It strikes me odd because they don't have a hard time getting visas to come here in China.
01:53:06.000They don't actually need to come here illegally.
01:53:09.000The fact that they're coming in here illegally, they were trying to be undetected, just like we've learned throughout the years that they like to be undetected in here to activate.
01:54:16.000Dr. Rick says, $5,000 head-to-head Texas holding between you and me with a one-time $5,000 reload here in Yonkers on a Friday night, live broadcasted on your podcast.
01:54:26.000It'll be an education in how to play poker.
01:58:19.000Meaning you've got like European roulette.
01:58:21.000I mean, it used to be American until they were like, hey, we can put extra numbers in here and rip people off and they will just keep playing.
01:59:36.000So they give you fake chips to play with, and then you can play.
01:59:40.000I'd then recommend you watch Lodge Live Stream Poker and Hustler Casino live poker.
01:59:44.000However, they play a little wild on those shows intentionally to make them entertaining.
01:59:49.000I would recommend watching Triton series or like WPT tournament events and the World Series tournament events so you can see how people are playing, the things they're doing.
02:00:02.000I wouldn't recommend sitting down with $100, having not done any of those things.
02:00:08.000If you have a ton of money, the fast and easiest way to learn is sit at a table.
02:00:12.000Because theoretically, if you go to a casino, it's a 1-2 game or 1-3.
02:00:18.000Every orbit, maybe, I don't know, that could take 20 minutes.
02:00:21.000You're going to have to put in $1, or you're going to put in $2, then $1, but you don't have to put any other money in if you don't want to.
02:00:27.000Theoretically, you could be on the big blind and just accidentally win and take it down.
02:00:31.000Sometimes the blinds will chop because nobody chooses to play.
02:00:33.000And you can get a feel for the terminology, the rules, what people are saying.
02:00:38.000And to a certain degree, people will try to help you because more players is always better for the game and they won't rip you off so long as you choose not to put money in the middle.
02:00:46.000I would just say play free online versions first, which is not really going to teach you a lot about how advanced strategy is, but you will at least understand the basics of like, oh, I got an ace and a three, and you'll start to learn.
02:00:59.000If you do want to play with $100, you're in a very weak position.
02:01:02.000Typically, $100 is the lowest buy-in for any card room.
02:01:06.000And when you are low, it's called short stacked, and you're basically going all in whenever you decide to make a bet, which it's not very fun.
02:02:25.000Well, if we're doing that, then that would be fun.
02:02:27.000But another person that I think who literally texted me said he was here, but it was the day your daughter was born, so he didn't get to meet you.
02:02:33.000It's Kevin Smith, a buddy of mine from Long Island.
02:03:10.000And then people will watch Saturday morning, Sunday morning, and Monday morning.
02:03:14.000And we can see it actually breaks up over the weekend.
02:03:17.000Additionally, there's no news breaking late on Fridays for the most part.
02:03:20.000When people bury stories, it'll be sometime in the afternoon.
02:03:23.000So we thought, okay, well, how do we, what can we do to maximize efficiency?
02:03:27.000Pre-record, premiere it at the normal time for everybody else, but for our Discord members, backstage pass.
02:03:33.000What we're going to do is basically, as we're doing pre-production setting up, everything we're saying as we're gearing up for the show will be audible to the Discord members who will be able to then ask questions because as a pre-record, we won't be taking super chats.
02:03:46.000We'll be taking Discord member commentary and questions.
02:03:50.000And I assure you, the hour of pre-production is a show unto itself.
02:03:54.000And sometimes I'm like, we should have recorded all of that.
02:03:56.000So now we're doing the Friday backstage pass for our Discord members.
02:04:00.000And then that means you get to watch the show early if you so choose, but it will air premiered at the normal time as the show normally does.
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02:06:59.000So here's my George, here's my video game I want everyone to watch.
02:07:03.000It's called Alien Invader, and you play the little white cube, and you have to shoot the little brown cubes that are trying to get past you.
02:07:10.000Look at assuming behind you, it's the U.S. border.
02:07:31.000So here's what's funny: if you show this game to like any liberal, they instantly, like, it took you guys two seconds to be like, hey, wait a minute, the aliens are brown.
02:07:53.000Five minutes ago, I typed in, make a game called Alien Invader, where you move a small white cube left and right spacebar shoots up at aliens, and the aliens are little brown blocks.
02:08:54.000Do you know what's my favorite troll of that day?
02:08:56.000So she loves to talk about like, oh, forgiveness or like the black people and all of that because you've enslaved us, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
02:09:02.000I showed up wearing a all-black designer outfit and she was wearing Galiano.
02:09:07.000I said, way to go for supporting black people, Z-Way.
02:09:10.000I'm not gay enough to know who this is.