Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Red Lobster FILING BANKRUPTCY, Economic Crisis Has Democrats Worried w-Michael Seifert | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Red Lobster is preparing to file for bankruptcy.

00:00:24.000 It's big news.

00:00:25.000 It's a little silly, but it's actually significant because Democrats are really worried what this means for the economy.

00:00:30.000 Joe Biden recently gave an interview where he said that people got money to spend, you know, despite inflation being way up.

00:00:36.000 New Consumer Price Index reports came out and inflation is up.

00:00:40.000 So there is this massive disparity between what the media is telling people and what people are feeling.

00:00:45.000 And I think this is breaking people from the corporate press because people can tell that prices are up.

00:00:50.000 People can't go out to eat anymore.

00:00:53.000 And now, silly as it may be, Red Lobster is shutting down 50 locations and preparing to file for bankruptcy.

00:01:00.000 And this is a bigger indicator of what's going on in the U.S.

00:01:03.000 economy.

00:01:03.000 So we're going to talk about that, what that means for the election.

00:01:05.000 And then we've got a bunch of other crazy news.

00:01:08.000 So if you heard about that portal from Dublin to New York, apparently there was a big livestream and degenerates came and made sure that it was not a thing and so they shut it down.

00:01:16.000 Some OnlyFans adult entertainer, I'll be polite, bared all in front of the livestream camera, so they shut that one down, but everyone's laughing about that.

00:01:27.000 And then this is pretty big news, actually, but I don't know how much people really care about the foreign policy stuff.

00:01:33.000 We were thinking of leading with it, but in Russia, The Russian forces are advancing into Kharkiv.

00:01:40.000 Unabated.

00:01:41.000 No obstruction.

00:01:42.000 Which is strange, because the U.S.

00:01:44.000 just sent them billions of dollars, and the money that was supposed to go to the fortifications went to fake companies that were set up, and tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of U.S.

00:01:53.000 dollars, were stolen.

00:01:56.000 Yep.

00:01:57.000 This is regular crooks and thieves who pretended to be contractors in the country, took the money, and that's it.

00:02:05.000 No one actually wanted to fight, and that's where your dollars are going. 0.95

00:02:08.000 This story's big, and I think it matters, but it's hard to condense the nuance into a functional headline so that people understand how this economy being crap is, well, a large factor in it is them sending your money to Ukrainian corrupt individuals, stealing it for personal gain, and Russia's winning anyway. 0.69

00:02:26.000 So, that's why foreign policy matters.

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00:04:57.000 Here's the news, ladies and gentlemen.

00:04:59.000 It's bad news.

00:05:00.000 Red Lobster.

00:05:01.000 We hardly knew ye.

00:05:02.000 Preparing to file for bankruptcy protection this month.

00:05:05.000 Casual dining chain aiming to restructure agreements with landlords and creditors to trim debt.

00:05:10.000 Now the crazy thing is, Daily Mail reports, Workers fury as thousands lose their jobs after Red Lobster immediately shutters more than 50 outlets across America without warning.

00:05:21.000 Red Lobster staff are furious, the chain let them go with no warning, more than 50 outlets are being shuttered across the country, and the brand has already begun auctioning off kitchen equipment.

00:05:31.000 But it's okay.

00:05:32.000 Joe Biden said that people have money to spend and everything's fine.

00:05:36.000 Well, you know, the best angle of this whole thing for me is the fact that one of their biggest issues is that they lost apparently $11 million on their endless shrimp campaign.

00:05:46.000 Like, they just flew too close to the sun and then they lost it all.

00:05:50.000 And I feel like that is just a story for any entrepreneur out there.

00:05:54.000 You know, I can't eat at Red Lobster.

00:05:57.000 I'm allergic to shellfish.

00:05:58.000 But I feel like it's not gonna be the same when you're not driving down the street and occasionally passing a Red Lobster.

00:06:04.000 There are still like 700 locations across the country.

00:06:07.000 Maybe this is something TikTok can turn around.

00:06:09.000 Like, where are the Gen Zers and their campaign to save Red Lobster?

00:06:13.000 They're broke.

00:06:15.000 Yeah.

00:06:16.000 The significant part of this is, I mean, just like you said, there's a bunch of other stores that are going to stay open.

00:06:20.000 So it's not like Red Lobster is going out of business.

00:06:23.000 But closing 50 stores and losing that many jobs is significant.

00:06:29.000 And it just goes to show, you know, there are significant struggles with the economy still.

00:06:35.000 People are not feeling like they're in a good place economically.

00:06:37.000 They don't feel like they're financially secure.

00:06:41.000 Well, I am.

00:06:41.000 They're auctioning off kitchen equipment.

00:06:43.000 It's a fire sale.

00:06:45.000 And that's, I mean, you're not, your business is not in a healthy position if you're having to file for bankruptcy protection.

00:06:51.000 So if there is going to be a TikTok campaign to save them, it's got to happen in the next month.

00:06:55.000 And the hard part too is like, Red Lobster is a staple of sort of the middle class.

00:07:01.000 Red Lobster is like a great date night spot for lots of Americans to go out, and the fact that that establishment took the hit is, I think, indicative of a much bigger problem in the economy.

00:07:11.000 Like, people do not have disposable income to be able to actually spend on anything outside the bare necessities.

00:07:16.000 Now, I thought it was funny to read, to lead with Red Lobster shuttering.

00:07:20.000 That's the big news, right?

00:07:22.000 But people need to understand that the only reason we mention the name Red Lobster is that it's a massive corporate chain.

00:07:29.000 So when they shut down 50 stores across the country, that registers with the national press.

00:07:35.000 You know what does not register?

00:07:37.000 When mom-and-pop diners shut down.

00:07:39.000 When local family restaurants shut down.

00:07:41.000 So you're looking into this big corporate entity, an octopus with many tentacles, And it screams and you hear it.

00:07:49.000 But what no one reports nationally is, here's a list of the 50 mom and pop diners that have shut down across the country, because it's not relevant.

00:07:56.000 It's relevant when your chain that you know and you see down the street is closing.

00:08:01.000 I'd be willing to bet if you look at local news, small towns, you're seeing Rick's diners closing after 30 years.

00:08:09.000 John's family bakery after 80 years is shutting down.

00:08:12.000 Yeah, this is just a continuation of a trend, which is, you know, probably started with COVID, I think, you know, when the shutdowns happened and people had to stay, you know, the lockdowns happened.

00:08:21.000 People had to stay home.

00:08:23.000 A lot of people had businesses that they lost because of that.

00:08:23.000 They had to close it.

00:08:27.000 And then you had the issues with the supply chains and stuff.

00:08:32.000 And then you had the inflation.

00:08:33.000 So there's been significant stressors for the entirety of the Biden administration.

00:08:39.000 And their responses, the Biden administration's responses, have been absolutely insufficient.

00:08:47.000 Well, it's interesting too because Red Lobster has been around since like 1962.

00:08:51.000 So in the time that it was growing, it prevented small businesses from opening up.

00:08:56.000 That's how this works sometimes, you know, whatever.

00:08:59.000 But then when it goes away, we don't have small businesses moving in and we also don't have this corporate chain.

00:09:04.000 So the communities that it's in will inevitably suffer.

00:09:07.000 It reminds me of stories, you know.

00:09:09.000 I had read an interview with someone who lived in, I think it was Welch, West Virginia, which is one of the poorest areas of the country, and they talked about how they'd lived their whole lives, there used to be a bustling Main Street, industry changed, that got closed down, a Walmart came in, then the Walmart left, and so the communities there have nothing, right?

00:09:27.000 Yeah, no, I was just gonna say there's a survey from Slack, actually.

00:09:30.000 I was just thinking about this when you guys were talking.

00:09:33.000 They did a survey in January, end of January, and released the results that found that 32% of the small business owners that utilize Slack said that they're afraid they're not even gonna make it all of 2024.

00:09:44.000 A third of small businesses.

00:09:46.000 Did you see the story that something like 40% of small businesses didn't make rent?

00:09:49.000 Yeah.

00:09:50.000 Last month?

00:09:51.000 That's horrifying.

00:09:51.000 Yeah.

00:09:52.000 I mean, like, it's looking really I do want to briefly mention this funny meme that I saw.

00:09:57.000 A guy tweeted, there is a secret society of people that are keeping long john silvers in business and they're living among us.

00:10:04.000 And I'm like, I believe that this is what I don't know who goes is a long john silvers.

00:10:08.000 But this is what I'm saying about the TikTok campaign.

00:10:11.000 Like one of the things that the country could do, you know, TikTok just being like any sort of young people fad. 1.00

00:10:18.000 When these things become cult classics, people start going after them.

00:10:22.000 Like I saw this video on Reels where girls are like, you know, 0.95

00:10:25.000 don't unalive yourself.

00:10:26.000 There's Applebee's. Applebee's is great.

00:10:28.000 And they're like showing eating like a group of girls.

00:10:31.000 Because of red lobster?

00:10:31.000 No, Applebee's. I think it's Applebee's.

00:10:33.000 I mean, like they're depressed because red lobster closed?

00:10:37.000 No, they're saying like, like, life is good.

00:10:39.000 Look at this molten lovin' cake from Applebee's.

00:10:42.000 Like, people have weird senses of humor.

00:10:43.000 If someone could just really market Red Lobster, maybe we could turn this thing around.

00:10:47.000 On the other hand, again, I've read this report that this endless shrimp thing, it wasn't good, but there was a moment they were like, but people think it's so funny that they're coming in, so maybe that's working for us.

00:10:57.000 Like, maybe we can survive these losses.

00:11:00.000 Again, I can't personally eat a Red Lobster, but You have to decide which American iconic chain you want to protect alongside all of the small businesses that depend on your dollar.

00:11:11.000 I wonder if, you know, I was just thinking that people need to find a passion.

00:11:17.000 They need to find satisfaction in the little things.

00:11:22.000 You know, working up to something, be it, if you really enjoy hiking, then you can find a way to turn that into a business, to share your passions.

00:11:30.000 Maybe it's a product, maybe it's videos.

00:11:32.000 That's my world, right?

00:11:34.000 Media.

00:11:34.000 So maybe you're filming videos.

00:11:36.000 But I wonder if actually this is a contributing factor to part of the economic downturn, is that Gen Z, being hit by two economic crises in their lifetimes, millennials too, that they've basically just been like, I don't really care to pursue things that make money when the system is mismanaged so miserably.

00:11:57.000 For millennials, I mean, I imagine someone gets out of college, they're maybe my age, and then immediately after they do, they can't find a job because the market collapse results in... It's a story I told.

00:12:06.000 I was looking for a job as a dishwasher, and I'm standing in line, and the guy in front of me is like five years older than me, wearing a suit, applying for these jobs.

00:12:13.000 And I'm just like, wow.

00:12:15.000 Because when they lost their jobs, they had to find work.

00:12:19.000 And so this ripple effect backwashes, I guess, into millennials.

00:12:25.000 Now they're in their mid-30s, and then COVID happens, and so their view of building things doesn't matter because it's been destroyed.

00:12:34.000 It's like they built a sandcastle, wiped out, built a sandcastle, wiped out.

00:12:36.000 Now they're just like, I don't care.

00:12:38.000 I don't need money.

00:12:39.000 I'm gonna live in a van down by the river.

00:12:40.000 I say it often as a semi-joke, but van life was massively popular.

00:12:47.000 I assume it still is.

00:12:48.000 These videos all over the internet of people being like, I'm done.

00:12:50.000 I'm leaving.

00:12:52.000 Van life.

00:12:54.000 is basically the system in collapse. They're not having kids, they're not having family night,

00:12:58.000 they're not having family dinner, which means you see Red Lobster shut down, Olive Garden's next.

00:13:03.000 Yep. And the thing is, these are, these are, um...

00:13:05.000 And it's breadsticks. I was gonna say, that's a doom and gloom prediction.

00:13:08.000 Yeah, that is sad. Now, I don't know for sure, Red Lobster's, like, structure, but I think they're a

00:13:13.000 franchise, aren't they?

00:13:15.000 So is it one franchise?

00:13:17.000 Either way, point being, there's a lot of businesses that are closing.

00:13:22.000 This is because of these strains that our economy is seeing.

00:13:25.000 And I'm going to say this as much as I can, because it's literally the most important thing that we've got going on right now, is the fact that We have too much money printing and we have an inflationary situation and we have bills coming due with unfunded liabilities.

00:13:42.000 The economic threat, the value of the dollar, is the biggest threat to the United States of America going.

00:13:48.000 And as long as the government continues to kick the can down the road and not do anything about unfunded liabilities, You can complain about war all you want, you can complain about any of the social situation, any policy you want.

00:14:01.000 All of them will get worse if the dollar explodes.

00:14:04.000 They all get worse.

00:14:05.000 More war? 0.67

00:14:07.000 Absolutely.

00:14:07.000 Without the United States being as stable?

00:14:08.000 More war? 0.67

00:14:08.000 Absolutely. 0.67

00:14:09.000 Without question.

00:14:14.000 what's going on in Israel and Gaza, the whole Middle East will go up in flames without the 1.00

00:14:20.000 United States actually being a stable country. I'm not talking about the U.S. being there dropping

00:14:25.000 bombs or anything, just if there is that kind of instability, other countries are going to act.

00:14:30.000 Our fiscal problem is our biggest problem.

00:14:33.000 The unfunded liabilities is our problem.

00:14:35.000 A trillion dollars in interest last year alone.

00:14:39.000 A trillion.

00:14:40.000 People need to understand that if the petrodollar collapses, that means the CIA-run sock puppets that make this show look big will be out of work, and then people will realize no one actually watches Tim Kast's IRL.

00:14:51.000 Actually, they'll realize that we're just AI, right?

00:14:53.000 I watch it.

00:14:55.000 There'll be glitches.

00:14:56.000 But you had to say that.

00:14:56.000 It was part of his contract to be here.

00:14:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:58.000 I did sign that part.

00:15:01.000 No, we have, so every month we send out a survey called the Freedom Economy Index.

00:15:06.000 We have 80,000 plus small businesses on our platform.

00:15:09.000 These people are salt of the earth, family owned and operated, heart of Main Street, and they fill out a survey every month, thousands of them, that share their thoughts on how the economy is going.

00:15:17.000 And I think the resounding feedback we get every single month is that they feel gaslit.

00:15:21.000 They feel like the Biden administration and the powers that be and Janet Yellen and all of the ivory tower folks that run our economy have told them, you are fine.

00:15:31.000 You are fine.

00:15:32.000 Prices aren't rising.

00:15:33.000 You're imagining that.

00:15:34.000 You're not having a hard time hiring.

00:15:35.000 You're imagining that.

00:15:37.000 Unemployment's not high.

00:15:38.000 People aren't getting second jobs.

00:15:40.000 They just tell you all these things.

00:15:42.000 until they hope that they will beat you into submission and actually believing it.

00:15:46.000 But our business owners even have said over the last month that their costs, over 80% of them,

00:15:52.000 said that their costs, in terms of like supplier costs, have gone up again over the last month.

00:15:56.000 And that's the eighth month in a row that they've gone up again.

00:15:59.000 What's fascinating though is that over half of those business owners that respond,

00:16:04.000 we're talking thousands of business owners, have said that they're actually not passing on those costs

00:16:08.000 to their consumer.

00:16:08.000 Well, that has a breaking point at some point.

00:16:10.000 They can't keep doing that forever, especially if 42% of businesses aren't making their rent and over a third of them.

00:16:15.000 That's insane.

00:16:17.000 It's insane.

00:16:18.000 Everybody feels like we're kind of in this We all feel it.

00:16:21.000 You're kind of standing on thin ice and it feels like it's about to break and you don't know what the first domino to fall will be.

00:16:27.000 Yeah, here you go.

00:16:28.000 43% of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in April due to economic headwinds.

00:16:32.000 So this is unusual Wales, citing Bloomberg's report, the highest rent delinquency since March 2021.

00:16:43.000 I think we are looking at the potential for some serious economic downturn.

00:16:48.000 And I just hate to be such a naysayer about it, but guys, let me jump to the story and just throw it in the mix as we start the segment off.

00:16:48.000 The only?

00:16:56.000 Biden is blasted as clueless and out of touch for claiming Americans, quote, have money to spend when told grocery prices are up 30% in rare sit down.

00:17:05.000 Now, now wait there a minute.

00:17:07.000 Let's all just remain calm.

00:17:09.000 A lot of people tell me, like, I can't take listening to this.

00:17:12.000 It's bad news all the time.

00:17:13.000 You're right.

00:17:15.000 You're right. 0.68

00:17:16.000 Uh, I wish we could pull up some silly bunnies and puppies, you know, chasing butterflies or something. 0.85

00:17:16.000 It is. 0.85

00:17:23.000 And, uh, I think it's fair if you choose to ignore all this stuff.

00:17:27.000 I met a guy when I was hanging out in DC a couple months ago.

00:17:31.000 He said, I used to watch every episode, but I just decided that it was too negative.

00:17:35.000 I should, I should cut it out of my life.

00:17:37.000 And I'm like, I don't, I, I, I, I get it.

00:17:41.000 I absolutely do.

00:17:41.000 I ain't mad about it.

00:17:43.000 My fear is just, The end result of doing that is exactly what causes it.

00:17:50.000 What I see with the economic downturn, with Biden going on TV out of his mind saying people have money to spend, is the result of the Titanic has hit the iceberg.

00:18:00.000 And someone just said, I'd rather not think about it.

00:18:04.000 And it's like, okay, then when this ship cracks in half, you go down with it.

00:18:09.000 And the rest of us will be, I admit, ignorance is bliss.

00:18:13.000 And for the time being, facing what we're facing and the election in November, we may all be a little bit more tightly wound.

00:18:21.000 But tightly wound, with full bellies.

00:18:23.000 Because we are thinking about this, we're planning, we're trying to fix it.

00:18:26.000 But the most important thing is, what really frustrates me, when I met this guy and he was like, I used to watch every single episode but it's just too negative.

00:18:33.000 I'm like, you've given up.

00:18:36.000 And there's bad news all the time.

00:18:39.000 And the people who understand what's going on but keep cool about it are the ones that are working towards reversing it.

00:18:44.000 When you say, I don't want to hear it anymore, you're basically saying, I understand our house is on fire.

00:18:51.000 I'm going to go across the street and read my phone and check Twitter while you deal with the fire.

00:18:55.000 And I'm like, we all need to focus on what's going on.

00:18:58.000 And at the very least, think about what we can do to, if not solve it, mitigate or prepare for ourselves, our friends, and our families.

00:19:05.000 Well, gosh, you want positive news.

00:19:10.000 The biggest takeaway for me out of the past six months is that if you actually call people to action and you give them an actual solution, they'll jump at it.

00:19:16.000 The country's not without hope.

00:19:18.000 People just want to know what I do with my frustration.

00:19:21.000 We tell this to people all the time.

00:19:23.000 It does not take much to help a small business stay on its feet.

00:19:27.000 If a coffee shop gets an extra $500 a day in revenue from customers, that can mean all the difference.

00:19:33.000 And so, you want to feel like a superhero for your own community?

00:19:36.000 You want to feel like you're actually doing something?

00:19:38.000 If you want to feel like your vote matters, use your dollar.

00:19:41.000 Do you want to save the small businesses in your community?

00:19:43.000 Do you want to help Casper advance?

00:19:44.000 Do you want to help the parallel economy emerge?

00:19:47.000 If you do, it doesn't take a whole lot of consumer spending to shift it.

00:19:50.000 Subtle plug, but I'm just saying, the businesses you've started, the 80,000 on our platform, the incredible community that's rallied around this concept of a parallel economy, free speech platforms like Rumble, great communities that are trying to start up payments solutions, banks, there are a lot of innovators that are trying to fix the problem.

00:20:07.000 But if you just, kind of in apathy, continue to go to the Starbucks and continue to put your head down and continue to just scroll Twitter and doom, you're going to feel like your apathy eats you alive.

00:20:18.000 It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:20:19.000 Versus, if I have $5 to spend and I can choose where to spend it, you just heard that 42% of businesses aren't about to pay rent.

00:20:27.000 Just missed it the last month.

00:20:28.000 You want to help keep them afloat, make sure that you're supporting them instead of these massive monolithic chains that hate you.

00:20:33.000 Imagine that the economy just totally collapses.

00:20:36.000 But everybody who's buying from public square companies are focused there, so, like, there's an island of businesses still functioning, and they're all American values-supporting businesses.

00:20:48.000 That's the plan.

00:20:49.000 Yeah, I think it'd be amazing.

00:20:50.000 Probably everyone could go through their list of, like, weekly purchases, right, and decide that instead of going to a chain or, you know, a different business that doesn't support their values, they're going to intentionally go out of their way to go to the smaller business or to go to a local company that they want to see grow.

00:21:06.000 I think about this with, you know, farmers markets or people who are concerned about, you know, meat or different things in their food.

00:21:12.000 Like some people are already motivated to do that because of their personal values and they decide that, you know, maybe not being able to just stop at the closest Walmart for something is worth the time and trouble.

00:21:21.000 And I think if people did it in minds of like what they want to see survive in their community, treating every Saturday, so to speak, like a small business Saturday, that's the thing they do after Black Friday.

00:21:32.000 You know, it would really shift, I think, their personal outlook because it is hard to get constantly, you know, this is going up and this is more expensive and no one can pay anything.

00:21:42.000 On the other hand, I think you're totally right.

00:21:43.000 It's bad news and it's overwhelming when there's no solutions, when you feel like you are powerless and just letting these things crash down upon you.

00:21:50.000 But if you feel like you could potentially affect change, I think people would look at the bad news as sort of a call to action.

00:21:57.000 Well, and, you know, people used to use the excuse of, well, McDonald's is just so much cheaper and these chains are so much cheaper.

00:22:05.000 But you see, McDonald's is not cheaper and McDonald's is scoring record profits.

00:22:11.000 Your small business is now the same price.

00:22:13.000 And they're not scoring record profits.

00:22:15.000 They're struggling to stay alive.

00:22:17.000 So we do have to make a call as a society.

00:22:18.000 Do you want to live in a society controlled by a few major businesses that are all in bed with a government that's kept them afloat because they prefer their political views?

00:22:26.000 Or do you want Main Street to thrive?

00:22:28.000 I have a strong thesis that over the next decade, America becomes far more balkanized.

00:22:33.000 We embrace balkanization.

00:22:34.000 People embrace their own communities first and foremost.

00:22:36.000 They try to lean in there.

00:22:38.000 They shop local.

00:22:39.000 They support the farmer's market.

00:22:40.000 There's a really cool startup called From the Farm that's basically helping like Airbnb but for farmer's markets.

00:22:47.000 You can actually even some food delivery stuff for local vendors and things.

00:22:51.000 I think more things like that are going to happen over the course of the next decade because people I think are really tired of feeling like, why do I continue to feed the beast if all that it does is spit out nonsense at me?

00:23:03.000 And lecture me!

00:23:03.000 And I think, at the end of the day, too, like, everybody's pretty frustrated that in the midst of all of this, and I know that we talked about Ukraine earlier in this, like, everybody's pretty frustrated that in the middle of this economic turmoil and feeling like Main Street's a disaster, and that it's closed, closed, closed, closed, one after another of all these businesses that are shuttering.

00:23:21.000 We're going to send other countries more of our money.

00:23:23.000 Like that really... Hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:23:26.000 It makes me sick.

00:23:27.000 And that's the deep frustration that I hope people channel into doing something different with their money so you can stop feeding the beast.

00:23:34.000 This is the crazy thing about the Russia story though.

00:23:36.000 I don't want to get into too much detail but...

00:23:38.000 You've got these pundits being like, we must support Ukraine.

00:23:41.000 You've got this Democrat in Virginia saying, Ukraine's border is our border.

00:23:46.000 And we're learning that the money we send, these people in Ukraine are creating fake companies.

00:23:53.000 How do people think the money gets distributed in Ukraine, right?

00:23:56.000 A portion goes to the local governments, who then choose to give it to no-name businesses that just started last week, because they're likely in on the corruption.

00:24:06.000 And then this company gets money.

00:24:09.000 Russian forces advance from the Northeast unopposed because the fortifications were never built.

00:24:16.000 Where did that money go?

00:24:18.000 And NPR reported something like $40 million stolen in January.

00:24:22.000 Now we're learning that, I think it's something like they reported, I think it was about $175 million in fortifications just nowhere.

00:24:31.000 We're not supporting Ukraine. 0.98

00:24:33.000 They are strip mining the U.S. 0.99

00:24:35.000 economy and laundering it or something like that.

00:24:38.000 So what you were talking about in one of the bits today about how the United States is essentially doomed and that the government, it seems like the government and the bureaucracy is just digging into the trough as much as they can to get as much as they can for themselves to, you know, support themselves.

00:24:56.000 for an inevitable collapse and it's hard not to think that's true but there is something else that I want to point out about foreign aid that people need to remember foreign aid not only is it inflationary but also like the point the foreign aid is to get more people using or to have more people using dollars so that way it makes the demand for dollars higher which Is inflationary?

00:25:25.000 Well, I mean, no.

00:25:26.000 The demand for dollars would make it deflationary.

00:25:29.000 But it makes people more likely to continue to use dollars and continue to desire to take out our debt.

00:25:36.000 But our debt is the biggest problem we have.

00:25:38.000 It's the reason that we have all these issues here with businesses closing.

00:25:43.000 Every problem that we have is going to be worse if we don't take care of the debt.

00:25:48.000 Well yeah, and that's, I mean, you just nailed it.

00:25:50.000 If I'm printing dollars in a way that's inflationary in order to give to countries that'll make us feel good that they still need the dollar, you're not actually solving anything.

00:26:01.000 You're just perpetuating the problem further because you're weakening the dollar by making it farther inflationary.

00:26:05.000 Like, it's just, it's fascinating to witness the collapse of the United States monetary supply due to its More than the military.

00:26:23.000 More than all of the biggest military in human history.

00:26:27.000 Like the military that has robots that shoot missiles that are controlled from the other side of the planet.

00:26:34.000 We spend more money paying for the interest on our debt than we do for that whole military with aircraft.

00:26:39.000 aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, planes that are invisible to radar and all that stuff

00:26:46.000 and we still pay more just for the interest on the debt.

00:26:49.000 It's the third highest expense line.

00:26:51.000 And what happens if we default?

00:26:53.000 Well I think that means probably war because I imagine if there's no more, I imagine the

00:27:01.000 United States would look to use military power to preserve the dollar because essentially

00:27:07.000 at the end of the day.

00:27:08.000 It's the only thing that secures it right now.

00:27:10.000 People say it's oil, but it's actually... That would be against its own people. 0.90

00:27:13.000 Most of the debt that the US holds is debt in the United States from private corporations and people.

00:27:19.000 And the interest is basically because This is ridiculously insane how modern monetary theory works.

00:27:28.000 But money is created upon the issuance of debt.

00:27:31.000 So when the U.S.

00:27:32.000 government says, we're raising the debt ceiling, they're creating a debt that has to be paid back.

00:27:37.000 It doesn't mean they're printing money.

00:27:39.000 It means they're agreeing to write an IOU to the people they're paying.

00:27:44.000 So the U.S.

00:27:45.000 government will be like, we want a contract to build a bridge.

00:27:48.000 How much will you do it for?

00:27:48.000 We'll say 50 million.

00:27:49.000 They'll be like, okay, bill us.

00:27:51.000 When they get billed, they pull it from the coffers, and now there's this massive deficit, a huge debt that exists.

00:27:58.000 If they don't pay it, that means a whole bunch of U.S.

00:28:00.000 contractors, companies, private individuals don't get paid.

00:28:03.000 Government employees don't get paid.

00:28:05.000 And yes, many foreign contractors as well.

00:28:07.000 And then the countries that are holding U.S.

00:28:09.000 debt, thinking that it's going to be worth something in the future if they hold on to it, they've already been realizing for the past 10 plus years, It's not going to be worth it, because the U.S.

00:28:18.000 is moving towards insolvency.

00:28:20.000 By 2033, NPR reports, Social Security is gone, and then kaboom.

00:28:25.000 Aren't you happy you're paying into that, whatever paycheck?

00:28:28.000 And also on top of it, what you're talking about, that's why a lot of countries, that's why BRICS is happening, that's why there's the de-dollarization.

00:28:34.000 That is a clear and present danger to the United States, because the less stable the U.S.

00:28:40.000 dollar is, the less stable the United States is, and the less stable the United States is, the more volatile the rest of the world is.

00:28:46.000 Let's jump to this story from Axios.

00:28:48.000 This is a good one.

00:28:49.000 Biden's polling denial.

00:28:51.000 Why he doesn't believe he's behind.

00:28:53.000 This is one of the best headlines I've ever seen because the corporate press is marching away from the Democratic Party.

00:29:01.000 It's remarkable from the Bill Maher calling Stormy Daniels a liar.

00:29:06.000 MSNBC actually being forced to defend Donald Trump.

00:29:10.000 And now Axios saying Biden's in denial and won't accept that he's losing.

00:29:16.000 They say President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisors.

00:29:22.000 The dismissiveness of the poor polling is sincere, not spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team.

00:29:28.000 That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady-as-she-goes campaign, even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction.

00:29:37.000 In public and private, Biden has been telling anyone who will listen that he's gaining ground and is probably up on Donald Trump.

00:29:44.000 Quote, while the press doesn't write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump, Biden told donors during a West Coast swing last week.

00:29:54.000 Confronted with some of his bad poll numbers in a rare interview with CNN, Biden offered a more sweeping indictment of polling methodology.

00:30:00.000 The polling data has been wrong all along.

00:30:03.000 How many, you guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks you have to call to get one response?

00:30:08.000 The latest polling in the six battleground states likely to decide the presidential race, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, doesn't paint a rosy picture for Biden.

00:30:16.000 I'm going to pause.

00:30:17.000 Biden's right.

00:30:19.000 Biden's completely right.

00:30:20.000 Yeah, he's winning.

00:30:21.000 Everybody better redouble their efforts, tell all their friends, register voters, do whatever you

00:30:26.000 got to do, because Biden's winning and Biden said so. I'm in for that message. If it if it hypes up

00:30:30.000 our people and doesn't let them get apathetic, then I'm down because this guy cannot I'm fine

00:30:35.000 with him believing in naivety that he's ahead and that they're going to cruise into the White House

00:30:40.000 because I am seeing more people than ever, who were as left as the day is long in 2020. That

00:30:47.000 that are now saying, I don't know what I am, but I'm not that, not with him.

00:30:52.000 He's only up, this New York Times poll, he's only up in one state.

00:30:55.000 I don't know if it showed it in here, but he was up in Wisconsin.

00:30:58.000 But even there it was within the margin of error.

00:31:00.000 Like, it's a total disaster.

00:31:01.000 I think it was double digits in Nevada.

00:31:03.000 And Nevada's an interesting state because if you want to look at economic sentiment related to issues like housing or new job growth, you look at Nevada.

00:31:11.000 Tourism is big there too.

00:31:12.000 So you see what kind of consumers are spending money on.

00:31:15.000 And Nevada is in a really desperate and painful place.

00:31:18.000 And Nevada is a spot that votes based upon how their economic standing is doing.

00:31:22.000 And clearly they believe that Bidenomics is not working.

00:31:25.000 And I think that when you also start to break down the same poll that it quotes here into

00:31:29.000 actual demographics, you see that among blacks, Hispanics, women, all different classes economically,

00:31:37.000 he is faltering to a level that is worse than Jimmy Carter was looking before he lost to

00:31:43.000 Reagan.

00:31:44.000 I think this poll also showed that if the election were to happen today, Trump would

00:31:47.000 have well over like 340 electoral votes.

00:31:51.000 So it's a disaster.

00:31:52.000 There's a couple of polls that have replicated similar things.

00:31:54.000 I mean, to me, these statements remind me of how selective reality really is.

00:31:59.000 The fact that he's saying, oh, the mainstream media won't talk about it, but we're actually up.

00:32:04.000 No, the mainstream media talked about it all the time.

00:32:06.000 December, January, they were always saying, no, no, Biden's way ahead and Trump can't whatever and the primaries and they were always on his side.

00:32:14.000 And now it's becoming such a pattern.

00:32:17.000 that they're not able to deny the fact, again, some of it is within the margin of error, right?

00:32:21.000 Some of it is not that Trump is up by 10, 20 points, it's that it's way more narrow than the

00:32:27.000 media had been saying for months and months and months. In fact, it seems to be really shifting

00:32:31.000 in Trump's favor. Don't forget to vote.

00:32:34.000 You have to vote if you want to see it.

00:32:36.000 Because I just think that is – the cynical side of me is, you know, if you can scare conservative-leaning, you know, sort of liberty-minded people into complacency, then you won't see the results of these polls.

00:32:49.000 And again, polling data is – it can be totally fallible.

00:32:52.000 It really depends on Who's putting out the poll, who they're surveying, sort of their methodology.

00:32:57.000 But if it's widespread, if it's repeated by multiple universities and outlets over and over again, it really does seem like Biden is either choosing his own reality or he has bad informants all around him who are not letting him see the fate of his campaign.

00:33:14.000 I just want to point out, too, that today's an election day, and we really, I think, collectively, culturally, have stopped caring.

00:33:21.000 Because at this point, it's a foregone conclusion.

00:33:23.000 It is Trump versus Biden.

00:33:24.000 But just to let everybody know, Trump won West Virginia.

00:33:28.000 He's got 86% beating Nikki Haley.

00:33:32.000 And there's, I think, 22% reporting.

00:33:34.000 But also, this one does matter.

00:33:36.000 Shout out to Riley Moore, who's currently sitting at 45% with 36% reporting.

00:33:38.000 So we're fans of Riley.

00:33:43.000 It looks like they declare for Jim Justice, too.

00:33:45.000 They called it for Jim Justice, huh?

00:33:46.000 That's what was written on public radio.

00:33:49.000 Yeah, he beat Mooney.

00:33:51.000 It's really interesting because the effect of taking the presidential campaign out during an election year, for some candidates that might be good, right?

00:34:01.000 You don't have as many voters going to the polls and voting, but for other candidates who need that wave of energy that having a presidential nominee on the ticket would provide, they could suffer.

00:34:12.000 I mean this is the other thing that we only focus on the president, you have to focus on everything down ticket.

00:34:18.000 Who your state senator is is probably going to affect you more directly than who your president is, who your congressman is.

00:34:26.000 It's not that it won't matter, but in terms of what happens to your local community, that happens to your neighborhood, you need to vote in your state elections above all else.

00:34:34.000 It's true.

00:34:34.000 And a lot of these polls are actually showing that while Biden is disastrously behind, Democrats are actually favored in many of the contentious Senate races.

00:34:43.000 People are split ticketing.

00:34:46.000 It's interesting in these polls.

00:34:47.000 And so to your point, yeah, if all you're thinking about is the presidential election, not a whole lot's going to change.

00:34:55.000 People are still conditioned to be like default Democrats.

00:34:58.000 And so they're still getting used to the idea that the Democrat policies that they've been living under are actually not working and they're having tangitive negative results in their lives.

00:35:10.000 There are so many people out there that for the longest time had just bought into the, well, I'm a Democrat because they're the nice people.

00:35:18.000 Those are the moderates that we're actually trying to reach, and those are the people that I say that are like, okay, these are the liberals that we need to reach to get them to come over to our side or whatever.

00:35:28.000 And the reason is because you get an entire narrative fed to you for 20 years or more, you know, like just fed to

00:35:39.000 you all the time, whether it's, whether it be in the news or whether it be Jon

00:35:44.000 Stewart or whether it be in movies, whatever it is, it's always the same narrative.

00:35:50.000 And so you've got people that are just now getting comfortable with the idea that's like,

00:35:54.000 maybe the Democrats are actually wrong.

00:35:56.000 Maybe the policies, maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans.

00:36:00.000 Maybe the bad things that we're seeing, that I'm feeling, maybe it's real.

00:36:05.000 Maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans. 0.74

00:36:07.000 Maybe the Republicans aren't just racist.

00:36:09.000 Maybe it isn't just that they're the bad guys and we're the good guys.

00:36:13.000 Maybe the Democrats are actually wrong.

00:36:15.000 So thank goodness that people are waking up, but it's about time.

00:36:18.000 So I pulled up 270 to win Senate projection.

00:36:22.000 Right now, Republicans are expected in 2024 to get 50 seats in the Senate.

00:36:28.000 Democrats right now, 47.

00:36:30.000 But that's actually 45 Democrats and two Independents who caucus with Democrats.

00:36:35.000 We're looking at three toss-up states.

00:36:37.000 So we've got three seats which could be won.

00:36:41.000 Arizona, Montana, and Ohio.

00:36:43.000 And I really feel like Montana.

00:36:45.000 Jon Tester? 0.80

00:36:46.000 Yeah, I don't- He's awful.

00:36:48.000 Yeah, it's just, I think we're so polarized, I don't see a reality in which Montana decides.

00:36:53.000 I understand Bozeman's up there, but West Virginia was Democrat.

00:36:58.000 I think Riley Moore was saying he's the first Republican state treasurer in something like 80 years, something like that.

00:37:02.000 A long time.

00:37:03.000 The polarization has- and Manchin.

00:37:08.000 He's up for re-election in a couple years, right?

00:37:09.000 Or what's his- Manchin's leaving.

00:37:11.000 Leaving right now or leaving in two years?

00:37:13.000 Uh, well, the Senate race that's going on right now is to fill the seat that he is vacating at the end of his term.

00:37:18.000 Right, okay, okay.

00:37:19.000 But it ends this fall, right?

00:37:20.000 Right.

00:37:21.000 That's what I was wondering about.

00:37:21.000 Yeah.

00:37:21.000 It ends in November.

00:37:22.000 It ends, like, when this year's turnover happens.

00:37:24.000 There's no way he could win.

00:37:25.000 There's no way he's winning in West Virginia.

00:37:27.000 This was a big debate because it was like, is he going to retire?

00:37:30.000 Is he going to declare himself independent?

00:37:31.000 And then he announced like, I am going to step away.

00:37:33.000 And he sort of has toyed with this idea of running like a uniparty ticket.

00:37:36.000 You saw him sitting with Romney at the State of the Union.

00:37:39.000 It's weird, but I do think that, you know, a Manchin Democrat is very different than an Ilhan Omar Democrat, right?

00:37:47.000 Like their party is bifurcated in the way that conservative Republican parties are as well.

00:37:52.000 You know, to your point, I think you're totally right.

00:37:53.000 I think people are realizing that This idea that like Democrats are the nice people and therefore voting for them is always a vote for the nice thing isn't always right.

00:38:00.000 I also think that conservatives have become more discerning of who is running with the R on their ticket.

00:38:07.000 I think there were a long time where people would be like, oh, well, I'm you know, let's say I'm an evangelical, so I'm always going to vote for the Republican because they have my values.

00:38:14.000 Actually, there are, you know, there are faults in the Republican Party too.

00:38:17.000 There are a lot of Republicans who say they're for certain values and they don't actually represent them or they don't vote for them.

00:38:23.000 Their history doesn't back that up.

00:38:25.000 And I think that is why it's hard because there are so many races to pay attention to at the same time.

00:38:32.000 You have your own life.

00:38:33.000 You can't pay attention to every single thing every single candidate says.

00:38:36.000 And discerning which people are true to your values is really important.

00:38:41.000 Well, and I think a lot of people are blatantly faking it and have been for a long time and now they're all getting exposed.

00:38:46.000 So a good example, by the way, I feel that about a lot of Democrats and Republicans.

00:38:49.000 What do you mean, what do you mean flaking?

00:38:52.000 Here's what I mean.

00:38:53.000 Like in, we mentioned Montana earlier, Jon Tester.

00:38:55.000 So Jon Tester is as Democrat progressive as it gets, but every single election cycle, he gets out his old rifle that he's never shot.

00:39:05.000 He talks about his farm, he talks about his country upbringing, how he's for down-home Montana values, and then when you re-elect him, he'll go and vote with Ilhan Omar.

00:39:16.000 I know he's obviously in the Senate, she's in the House, but they'll have the same sort of agenda on every single thing.

00:39:22.000 For a while that would work, because people aren't paying attention after the election, but now with how everything's been blown up in social media, you can't get by anymore kind of faking it, and that's a good example.

00:39:33.000 But check this out, so this is the House interactive map, and we can see that Montana's second is strong Republican, and Montana's first is leaning Republican.

00:39:43.000 I would say, look, if the House—I understand Tester's got the incumbent advantage, and that's probably why they're saying it's a toss-up.

00:39:50.000 I'm saying, you look at this.

00:39:52.000 Trump supporters are Republicans, and young people are pushing for the Republican Party.

00:39:57.000 It is a really good point that everyone's just screaming Trump's name, and people gotta get local and make sure they're focusing on those local races.

00:40:04.000 Because you take a look down here at Colorado's—Lauren Boebert. 0.91

00:40:08.000 She's switching to 04, but that one's leaning red.

00:40:11.000 Democrats are going to pull some surprise moves.

00:40:15.000 Here's what concerns me about Joe Biden saying I'm actually ahead.

00:40:18.000 Shadow campaign.

00:40:20.000 The reason Joe Biden is saying he's ahead in the polls is not because he's actually ahead in the polls, he's behind, but it's because they got a plan.

00:40:27.000 And there's got to be something that happens.

00:40:29.000 So remember in 2020, they said the red mirage, watch out for the red mirage because it'll look like Trump's winning.

00:40:35.000 But then in the middle of the night, it'll change.

00:40:38.000 And then when it happened, they went, see, we told you it was going to happen.

00:40:40.000 Doesn't mean there's nothing weird about it.

00:40:43.000 It just means you said it was going to happen.

00:40:45.000 In fact, that's actually kind of weird that you told us it was going to happen.

00:40:48.000 So if you look at Biden now saying, I'm actually ahead of the polls and the polls are wrong, then if something weird happens and Biden ends up winning, he's going to then go, we told you he was ahead the whole time.

00:40:59.000 You just didn't listen.

00:41:00.000 Yeah, I think it's true.

00:41:03.000 I mean, this is this is the interesting thing about Biden, which is I don't think his campaign actually wants him to talk at all.

00:41:09.000 So if he's saying I'm ahead, maybe his campaign is like, shh, let them think they're winning.

00:41:15.000 It's hard to say.

00:41:15.000 I think the the biggest The other issue is maybe just the apathy and negativity that Americans feel right now.

00:41:22.000 Like if you feel like there is no path forward, maybe you are not going to vote because you just feel doomed.

00:41:28.000 And I think that sense of this is not something – our economic problems, our cultural tensions – if you feel like there's something you can't overcome by voting, that's the issue I think all candidates have to fight against.

00:41:42.000 Well, I think there is some good news in this, and that's that Democrats now, especially younger ones, a lot of these polls are revealed, cannot stand Biden on three key issues.

00:41:52.000 Number one, they believe he's totally—these are Dems, by the way.

00:41:55.000 So young, progressive Gen Zs.

00:41:58.000 cannot stand the way that Biden's handled Israel and Gaza.

00:42:00.000 That's number one.

00:42:01.000 Number two is they feel like he has not fixed or fulfilled all the promises related to student loans

00:42:05.000 that he would.

00:42:06.000 And number three is that he has not taxed the rich like he said he would.

00:42:09.000 There was a new report that came out that the wealthiest billionaires are paying less in taxes

00:42:13.000 than somebody making 80 grand a year because they're not taking an income.

00:42:16.000 They make 80 grand on their salary or sometimes often just report a zero,

00:42:20.000 but they take all the tax breaks that Trump called out in 2016

00:42:23.000 that are employed by all of Hillary Clinton's donors.

00:42:25.000 Y'all remember this wonderful debate.

00:42:27.000 So, Gen Z feels like they've been screwed by Biden.

00:42:31.000 That's really prevalent among young women. 0.97

00:42:34.000 Then Gen Z men are leaning more and more conservative, and they're starting to show up at the polls and actually represent their political views that are leaning hard right in a way that we haven't seen in a long time.

00:42:44.000 And so my hope would be that Dems have a ton of apathy going into the fall because they feel like Biden hasn't performed and they can't stand the guy.

00:42:51.000 You see, by the way, Dems are predicting this, which is why they're rushing to put all this abortion stuff on the state ballots, because they're trying to just get any young Gen Z women to show up, because that's the only demographic they actually want in the midterms.

00:43:02.000 So they're trying to drive traffic to the polls.

00:43:04.000 It's not working.

00:43:05.000 It's not translating because they cannot stand Biden.

00:43:08.000 Meanwhile, hopefully if conservatives will get up off their butts and not be apathetic and drive young turnout and minority turnout, holy cow, I mean, we could actually, we could actually experience a lot of breakthrough here, but we cannot get apathetic.

00:43:21.000 I know we've said that word like 30 times in the show so far, but I really, I feel that so strongly.

00:43:26.000 Like we, if we, if we embrace apathy heading into November, cause a lot of people are just tired and pissed off.

00:43:32.000 Uh, we're gonna deal with a whole lot worse circumstances in four years where you won't even be able to afford to be apathetic.

00:43:37.000 You're gonna be forced to pay attention, and that's not what any of us want.

00:43:40.000 I feel like maybe people need to reframe how we're seeing everything and look at it not as despair, but as a grand adventure.

00:43:48.000 Opportunity.

00:43:49.000 Every generation is faced with a challenge.

00:43:52.000 This is ours.

00:43:53.000 It's not something to be upset about.

00:43:54.000 It's not something to shy away from.

00:43:56.000 It's something to recognize within yourself that there are some people who are not cut out for conflict.

00:44:02.000 Some people more than others.

00:44:04.000 Some people, so much so, they become warriors who fight on the front lines in physical combat, brave men and women in uniform, going to places that most of us would not go under any circumstances.

00:44:14.000 Some people go there for nothing other than the purpose and the need to serve their country.

00:44:20.000 Then there are people who engage in public sector life, and I mean good people.

00:44:24.000 There's a small handful in Congress.

00:44:26.000 Many of them are not good people.

00:44:27.000 But I look at, you know, talking to Riley Moore, just like choosing to wait around in the swamp.

00:44:35.000 It's like, you know, I know Riley's a good dude.

00:44:37.000 And so I'm glad he's going in, but at the same time, it's like, you are going to be fighting swamp monsters

00:44:42.000 on an uphill battle and it's so brutal, but there are some people who we can actually trust

00:44:47.000 and hope will do right.

00:44:49.000 And so I say to everybody, don't get upset at the news.

00:44:54.000 The news is always bad because good news is... It doesn't put us at risk.

00:45:00.000 It's like, if we got breaking news that, you know, the economy is great, you'd feel it.

00:45:04.000 You'd feel good and you wouldn't have to worry about it.

00:45:06.000 People only start to worry when things are getting bad and they're starting to wonder why that is.

00:45:10.000 And so my view of this is, when I'm reading the news all day and people say like, how are you not getting so down by it?

00:45:15.000 I'm like, this is the adventure, man.

00:45:17.000 We are here.

00:45:19.000 We are men of action.

00:45:20.000 We are here to ensure a better life for those that come after us.

00:45:24.000 If that's not for you and you'd rather hang out, watch the game, then... I feel bad.

00:45:29.000 I wish you would stand alongside us, but at the same time, that guy I was mentioning earlier in the show, he just wanted to play poker, he says, the news is too negative for me.

00:45:35.000 I say, well...

00:45:37.000 Covering the news, focusing on it, is the little bit that I do so that you can enjoy a nice game of poker and not have to think twice about it.

00:45:43.000 And then I throw it to the men and women in uniform.

00:45:45.000 That's why I'm a huge fan of Tunnels to Towers and things like that.

00:45:48.000 Because the men and women in uniform are doing the real work.

00:45:51.000 Firefighters, yes, police officers, I know Chad's gonna go nuts, but the actual first responders Who are out there every day so that we can sit in a safe room.

00:46:00.000 That being said, I do like West Virginia because constitutional carry, better security, big open spaces.

00:46:05.000 But there are people who put their lives on the line every single day so that you can sit in your living room and watch the game, hang out with your buddies, and not have to think about it.

00:46:14.000 And you can choose to be that, and there's nothing wrong with that.

00:46:16.000 Because people are building that world for you.

00:46:20.000 Soldiers are fighting battles for you.

00:46:22.000 Police are out there.

00:46:23.000 EMTs are out there, so that you can live comfortably and don't have to live in that world. 1.00

00:46:23.000 Firefighters are out there. 1.00

00:46:28.000 And then other people are called to action.

00:46:30.000 So my view is, when you see the news, you should feel resolve.

00:46:34.000 When you hear about the economic closures, when you hear about the Democrats' new policy that's going to let more criminals out, you should feel that fire inside you light you up and say, this is why you are here, this is your purpose, and you have a mission.

00:46:46.000 And the mission can be simple.

00:46:47.000 Live a good life, raise your family, and be vigilant.

00:46:50.000 Your mission could be more than that.

00:46:51.000 It could be a call to action to be a police officer, be a firefighter, to be an EMT, or serve your country.

00:46:56.000 Or it can be to be one of the few good people in Congress.

00:46:59.000 But if you feel the despair because the news is bad, then maybe it is important that you decide to live the world of comfort that other people will fight for.

00:47:09.000 I don't think there's any shame in that.

00:47:11.000 I think the brave men and women in uniform, be it from civil service to military service, know full well that they're doing this for you so that you can have a better life.

00:47:21.000 I respect it.

00:47:23.000 I look forward to every day waking up and doing the little bit that we do here, and there are certainly people doing substantially more than we do.

00:47:32.000 And speaking of that, let's jump to this next story from NPR.

00:47:36.000 Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war.

00:47:42.000 This was first reported January 28th, 2024.

00:47:44.000 Well, I got an update for you.

00:47:47.000 This is from Pravda.ua, a Ukrainian newspaper.

00:47:52.000 They write, where are the fortifications?

00:47:54.000 Kharkiv OVA paid millions to fictitious companies, but millions?

00:47:59.000 That's hundreds of millions of hrivnas.

00:48:01.000 That's the Ukrainian currency, possibly stolen.

00:48:04.000 They mention a total of 7 billion hrivnas were spent there, poured by the Kharkiv OVA to the front companies of avatars.

00:48:13.000 It's a poor translation.

00:48:14.000 What they're basically saying is these companies don't exist and were paid out millions or hundreds of millions of dollars and now the Russian forces are actively advancing and the New York Times reporting that a Ukrainian general paints a bleak picture.

00:48:30.000 A CIA official said Ukraine could lose by the end of the year.

00:48:35.000 And so just a moment ago, for those that did not hear it, I was talking about the brave men and women in uniform, the civil service here in this country, to the military service.

00:48:45.000 What bothers me the most about the spending of this money is, one, it rips it from the middle class.

00:48:50.000 It takes it from people who I see every day in the chat saying, I'm suffering from cancer.

00:48:55.000 I can't pay my rent.

00:48:56.000 I'm living in my car.

00:48:58.000 And this money, which is a drag on our labor in this country, is being given to corrupt officials for what reason?

00:49:06.000 Why do we have to spend money?

00:49:09.000 and send our brave men and women in uniform to foreign countries in military bases we set up all over the world while our border is cracked wide open.

00:49:17.000 We have crime rampant in our streets and the people who are dedicating their lives to serve the people of this country are being redirected to nonsensical endeavors overseas while the people back home are suffering and our tax dollars, our buying power, and our resources are stripped away and sent to corrupt officials and fake companies and criminals Outright criminals in a country most people can't find on a map.

00:49:42.000 It's true, more new millionaires in Ukraine created over the last year than in any year of their nation's existence.

00:49:48.000 It was almost like it was about getting the money and not about anything else.

00:49:51.000 Everyone knew that Ukraine was considered the most corrupt country in Europe, or one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

00:49:59.000 This was baked into the cake as soon as we started sending them cash payments and the support.

00:50:07.000 I know that there's been some arms that have gone, But you know there's just been, you know, they've been shoveling dollars into Ukraine like mad.

00:50:15.000 And there's been a lot of reports saying that we had no, we weren't tracking it, we didn't know where the money was going, it was being sent.

00:50:20.000 Like the fact that, oh, it turns out it wasn't ending up where it was supposed to be is exactly the plotline we all could have predicted.

00:50:28.000 It is wild to me because if you're the American people and you're saying like, hey, my city needs a new bridge.

00:50:35.000 Hey, what's going on with the border?

00:50:37.000 That's not secure at all.

00:50:38.000 Hey, this is an issue that's facing my community.

00:50:41.000 The federal government said to you, we don't care.

00:50:44.000 We'd actually rather just literally throw money away never to see it turn into anything in Ukraine than to help you.

00:50:50.000 And that is not a message for a people that is trying to become a strong culture and a strong force in the world.

00:50:57.000 Well, and I can't remember who said this but the basic adage was the government needs transparency and the people need freedom.

00:51:05.000 The point was it's the goal of a government to protect the freedoms of the people because that's what we the people deserve and then what we expect in turn from the government is transparency because they work for us.

00:51:15.000 But what's fascinating is like, so I'm the CEO of a publicly traded company and every quarter we go through a quarterly review on our 10Q and we have auditors look at our financial statements and if we even misplace five dollars it is under the most strict set of review guidance and parameters then you do your end of the year actual formal audit where you have to report your own financial results and they comb through every single line item because they're auditors that's their job

00:51:42.000 The SEC has the right to review those forms and hold companies accountable or their auditors accountable if there's anything fraudulent on those forms.

00:51:51.000 And so this is a very strict process that we spend lots of money on and time and energy and resources.

00:51:56.000 And we're just a company, you know, that's making our way and growing and advancing every day.

00:52:02.000 But we're, you know, we're not even a billion dollars.

00:52:04.000 We're 150 million dollars.

00:52:06.000 What happens when the U.S.

00:52:07.000 government That is in control of all of our lives and billions of dollars that we can send overseas misplaces five billion of it as it's on the way to deliver arms.

00:52:18.000 And they are under no review.

00:52:20.000 No auditors are banging down their door.

00:52:21.000 The SEC is not calling them.

00:52:23.000 The IRS is not calling them and saying, what are you doing with the U.S.

00:52:25.000 taxpayer dollars that you're misplacing billions of it?

00:52:28.000 They're under no penalty.

00:52:30.000 And so they just feel like, I feel like the last 10 years has just been an experiment and how much can they get away with?

00:52:37.000 Right, there was, this year during the budget hearings, I think it was the Defense Department was asked, you know, what happened to this several million dollars and they were like, we don't know.

00:52:45.000 We don't know.

00:52:46.000 Haha, anyways, more please.

00:52:47.000 Like, they're held to a standard which the American people and the American businesses are not held to.

00:52:52.000 If you were to say like, don't know, they would be like, great, fines.

00:52:57.000 Potential criminal and all kinds of punishments coming your way.

00:53:00.000 But the federal government, all of its agencies, and Ukraine are not held to the standard that we hold American people.

00:53:05.000 We punish American people for things that we turn a blind eye to for other people.

00:53:09.000 That's not America First, and this is not a value that I would support for a government going forward.

00:53:13.000 Nope.

00:53:14.000 We don't even have $5 billion for a border wall, they said.

00:53:17.000 So they'll misplace $5 billion in Ukraine, but we don't have $5 billion for a border wall here.

00:53:20.000 Misplace?

00:53:21.000 Misplace.

00:53:22.000 We don't know what happened.

00:53:23.000 Yeah.

00:53:23.000 It's just gone.

00:53:24.000 It's a few pennies here and there.

00:53:26.000 In all seriousness, though, imagine you're like some gutter crust Ukrainian dude living in the borders of the Donbass, and then you hear in the news that the U.S. 0.95

00:53:35.000 is giving $100 billion to your country.

00:53:38.000 And then your local government says, we're looking for contractors to build fortifications.

00:53:41.000 And you're like, uh, I have a company.

00:53:43.000 And they're like, how much do you want?

00:53:45.000 10 million.

00:53:46.000 And they're like, here you go.

00:53:47.000 And then he just runs off.

00:53:50.000 I mean, talk about a payday.

00:53:52.000 I'm jealous of that guy.

00:53:52.000 Well, and I've heard that a lot of the companies actually on the ground that could do the work in Ukraine, that are supposed to be receiving the U.S.

00:54:00.000 aid, are not actually the ones receiving the money.

00:54:02.000 It's government officials that'll spin up these little shell corps, funnel the money into it that was never real in the first place, not real contractors, and then they flee the country, they head to Monaco, and they buy the yacht with the money.

00:54:11.000 So not only is the money being dumped into fruitless endeavors, they're not even real endeavors.

00:54:19.000 Like, it'd be one thing if we were taking our money and funding Sergey, the contractor who's got a business near, you know, the Donbass region that's going to build a new bridge.

00:54:30.000 I'd still be against it.

00:54:30.000 That'd be one thing.

00:54:32.000 But it's a whole other thing when the money never even gets to that guy.

00:54:35.000 His quality of life's not improving, so while he's being invaded, his quality of life still sucks and he has no business, even though he's reading the headlines saying, the United States is about to fund me!

00:54:43.000 Yay! 0.99

00:54:44.000 But then instead it's the local city official that takes that money that was supposed to go to him and bounces.

00:54:48.000 Or what if it's not actually local officials or local criminals, but that's the patsy.

00:54:53.000 And the real issue is that international interests and U.S.

00:54:57.000 corrupt officials are funneling it to themselves.

00:55:01.000 I just like to recall Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma.

00:55:05.000 I don't think there's much question about whether or not there's back channels, people in the U.S.

00:55:12.000 getting money from this.

00:55:14.000 If it's not getting it directly, then they're getting it through Funds going to weapons manufacturers here and then the weapon manufacturers supporting their candidacy or some some version of that or something like that some some other way where the the US pays money to a corporation in order to Ukraine and Ukraine buys weapons and the money gets back to the people that have passed the laws this this is is fairly

00:55:40.000 Boilerplate corruption, right? Surely we wouldn't just be sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel if no one

00:55:45.000 was making money off it at home Right, like our bodies couldn't be that bad corrupt. The

00:55:50.000 thing is stupid with the Israeli money At least you see what you see what they're doing with it 1.00

00:55:55.000 with the with the Ukraine money You don't see what they're doing with it. They're like, you 1.00

00:55:59.000 you know, they're losing, you know that they're losing thousands of people

00:56:03.000 That's my biggest complaint overall.

00:56:04.000 are. But you know that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died and a lot of Russians have

00:56:08.000 died, but they're not obviously stopping the Russians. I mean, they're obviously not dealing 0.83

00:56:13.000 with domestic issues. That's my biggest complaint overall.

00:56:16.000 Like with Ukraine, it's so blatant, but for any country to receive tons and tons of money, it's

00:56:21.000 a prioritization of international conflict over domestic needs. And I just don't think that's

00:56:25.000 something that Americans can really stomach for any longer. We shouldn't have been doing this

00:56:29.000 in the first place. We fund conflicts from every side. We really mess up all kinds of geopolitical

00:56:34.000 landscapes and to the detriment of people at home.

00:56:39.000 It's that classic meme where it's the rockets flying from both directions and it says my tax dollars somehow also my tax dollars.

00:56:46.000 It's true.

00:56:46.000 You know it's interesting too about the Israel versus Ukraine debate when you look at the transparency on where the funding's going.

00:56:52.000 I think part of the reason the United States has been able to dump so much money into Ukraine carte blanche without any repercussions or transparency or accountability is because the international community is sort of at this point turned a blind eye.

00:57:03.000 The international community now has placed a ton of scrutiny and accountability on Israel, and regardless of how you feel on that issue, the point is the world is paying a lot more attention to what Israel's doing than what Ukraine's doing.

00:57:15.000 And so I think it's, you know, Biden, you can argue whether or not he's making an about face on Israel now trying to kind of strip, aid, and fight his own Democrats in the party because he's trying to appease those Gen Z voters we talked about earlier, or is it because He knows he can't just get away with everything now in Israel because they've got a heavy eye on them from the international angle.

00:57:35.000 I don't know, because Ukraine's been this money laundering pot that nobody's paying attention to, and the world's focusing on Israel.

00:57:42.000 So it doesn't surprise me that Biden's like, ah, let's just keep funneling money to Ukraine, and we're not going to worry too much about continuing to fund Israel, because originally Biden was like all in funding Netanyahu, and now he's all of a sudden making kind of an about face, and it's very interesting to see why.

00:57:57.000 I think that's because of his poll numbers.

00:57:59.000 I think that he would be funding Israel, or more pro-Israel, if it wasn't for the fact that the young people and the... Yeah, we're turning against him for it.

00:58:10.000 Yeah, but it's not just the young people, it's the more far-left, kind of more vocal people in the Democrat party that are turning against him for it, because they're the ones that are actually pro-Hamas and stuff.

00:58:20.000 Yeah, it's wild.

00:58:21.000 And then as for the Ukraine stuff, I mean it's...

00:58:25.000 The Ukraine stuff puts us in a position where it's possible that there could be a nuclear exchange.

00:58:35.000 Some people say it's unlikely, some people don't think it's unlikely.

00:58:39.000 The only benefit that you hear from anyone that talks about geopolitical stuff, the only benefit the U.S.

00:58:45.000 gets out of this is it weakens Russia, right?

00:58:48.000 So Russia spends, you know, you're essentially, you throw a bunch of Russian people into the meat grinder 1.00

00:58:53.000 and get them killed and they spend a bunch of money and weapons and that weakens them. 0.91

00:58:58.000 So that makes the United States better off. 0.93

00:59:00.000 I mean, you can say that, you can make that argument.

00:59:03.000 I don't think that it's worth the risk because I don't think that Russia's actually all that much.

00:59:07.000 You have actual diehard warmongers that genuinely, I don't know if they believe it, but they tell you it like they do.

00:59:12.000 that inflaming tensions with the Russian Ukraine and possibly putting NATO into a position

00:59:18.000 where they get into conflict with Russia is in anyone's interest.

00:59:20.000 Well, that's what's nuts.

00:59:22.000 You have actual diehard warmongers that genuinely, I don't know if they believe it, but they

00:59:27.000 tell you it like they do, that if Ukraine falls, Putin will invade France. 0.99

00:59:32.000 And it's like, you clowns can't be serious. 0.99

00:59:35.000 But they've made Russia into this huge monster, right? 0.98

00:59:39.000 Like, not to say that Russia is perfect in any way, but it's like, we have to do anything to stop Russia. 0.95

00:59:45.000 And I will give you several hysterical scenarios of what could happen.

00:59:48.000 Like, that's how they were able to say, like, not only do the Ukrainian people need our support, again, loss of life is bad.

00:59:54.000 Like, I understand that aspect of it, the empathy, but on top of that, It's actually the collapse of the world, and World War III is upon us all the time.

01:00:01.000 I think this is the issue that, you know, whereas, you know, in contrast, the Israel-Palestine-Hamas issue, you know, American voters are much more divided on it, and so you're able to hold a level of scrutiny to how we're spending money.

01:00:15.000 Well, like we weren't.

01:00:16.000 With Ukraine, it was like, you have to do anything to stop Russia at all costs. 0.81

01:00:19.000 Don't even ask what Russia is doing. 0.59

01:00:21.000 The thing is, even if Russia takes over Ukraine, right, it's not like Russia's going to go in there and kill all the Ukrainians.

01:00:26.000 Right? 0.99

01:00:27.000 If Gaza had their way with Israel, they would kill all the Israelis. 0.99

01:00:31.000 I don't even know how many Ukrainians are actually left. 0.95

01:00:33.000 Neither do I. I don't care who runs Ukraine, you know what I mean? 0.70

01:00:37.000 Millions have fled.

01:00:38.000 Cities are displaced, the eastern region is seriously damaged from war, and even the people

01:00:46.000 I know from Ukraine have left the country a long time ago, and they're posting happy

01:00:50.000 photos from various parts of Europe.

01:00:53.000 So at this point, if Russia were to take the Donbass, I think the big issue for the United

01:00:56.000 States is that the U.S. is trying to control energy in the region.

01:01:01.000 Russia controlling the Donbass secures their position in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

01:01:05.000 And then the only other option the U.S.

01:01:06.000 has is to pressure Turkey to cut off Russia's access from the Bosphorus, which they will not do.

01:01:11.000 And so if the U.S.

01:01:12.000 does not win in Ukraine, they cannot push Russia out of the Mediterranean, which is what we're trying—the United States.

01:01:18.000 I say we, but it's the U.S.

01:01:20.000 I'm against it.

01:01:21.000 Well, and that's where, you know, the United States, my biggest beef with all of this, besides the funding issue from the beginning, because I just don't, like, don't get me wrong, I want peace, and I want people to create these mutually agreeable deals that provide a sense of statesmanship and amicability between nations.

01:01:41.000 I just don't really care.

01:01:42.000 At the end of the day, like, I don't want to fund it, I don't want to touch it, we have our own problems here, like, have you seen New York recently?

01:01:47.000 It's a total mess.

01:01:48.000 But my big thing is, Besides that, I've always just wanted to know what the heck's the plan.

01:01:53.000 Like, if you're gonna take my money, this is another thing.

01:01:54.000 Like, if I'm gonna invest my money in something, I expect to know the roadmap.

01:01:57.000 Show me the deck.

01:01:58.000 Show me what your plan is.

01:02:00.000 And they've never had a plan, and the few plans that they've been willing to share about what peace would look like are completely unrealistic.

01:02:06.000 You're not gonna get Crimea.

01:02:08.000 It's not.

01:02:10.000 Ukraine's not going to hold Crimea forever.

01:02:13.000 It's not going to happen.

01:02:15.000 So stating that as some sort of realistic expectation or a litmus test for when we will finally back off, it's been irrational from day one.

01:02:23.000 Crimea means World War III.

01:02:25.000 Russia will not allow, this is where their Black Sea fleet is based. 0.91

01:02:25.000 It does. 0.91

01:02:29.000 They have a naval base there, it's been there forever.

01:02:31.000 The U.S., the war we're in now is because the U.S. 0.86

01:02:35.000 was gaining too much influence with the Ukrainian government, the ouster of Yanukovych, leading to a more favorable EU Western president, puts Russia on high alert, they have their quote-unquote referendum, they take Crimea.

01:02:45.000 How did they take Crimea?

01:02:46.000 They took two steps out of their naval base and said, we're here, and that was it.

01:02:50.000 But they needed land access because they have a single bridge from Crimea to Russian territory.

01:02:54.000 So they said, we need to secure land access.

01:02:57.000 And once it became apparent, see with Donald Trump in office, Putin's not worried about it.

01:03:01.000 Trump's in office and he's like, this guy doesn't want to go to war.

01:03:04.000 He doesn't want this.

01:03:05.000 We don't have much to worry about.

01:03:06.000 We're going to be able to get our shipments in and out.

01:03:09.000 Biden gets elected, and Putin's like, here we go.

01:03:11.000 And that's why we end up with war.

01:03:13.000 The U.S.

01:03:14.000 wants to press this, then World War III. 0.85

01:03:16.000 And that's why it really is insane to see what's going on with Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine and all this funding.

01:03:21.000 And then Trump's like, it's going to be World War III unless I get elected.

01:03:24.000 And it's like, yes.

01:03:27.000 My fear is that the snowball is rolling down the hill already.

01:03:30.000 And I don't know how much Trump could avert at this point, considering how far we've already gone.

01:03:34.000 Yeah, that's a big question.

01:03:35.000 How much do you think America turning an about face now would stop the actors that are in motion?

01:03:40.000 I don't know the answer to that.

01:03:41.000 It's probably regional.

01:03:43.000 Given that China hasn't made direct moves, I'd say that a Trump election in the fall, because he's been super bullish on the idea that China cannot touch Taiwan, maybe that is thwarted.

01:03:53.000 But are you going to stop the Israel-Gaza conflict now?

01:03:56.000 Are you going to stop Ukraine and Russia through an election? 0.94

01:03:58.000 I don't know.

01:03:59.000 I would hope so.

01:04:00.000 Let's jump to some domestic news with a tweet from Patrick Bet David who says it's official Chris Cuomo and Dave Smith have agreed to do a sit-down with a live audience PBD podcast May 31st at 6 p.m.

01:04:15.000 and the hiring of Chris Cuomo I believe he officially works for PBD I don't get that wrong but I believe he's like officially a part of their crew whatever has been contentious And there's some e-drama, but I think there's an interesting question around the hiring of Cuomo and what you guys think, but we'll start from the beginning here.

01:04:33.000 When it was announced that PBD hired Chris Cuomo, I said, I think this is a massive mistake.

01:04:38.000 This is a guy who went on his show on CNN, mocked people for eating horse paste, Joked about COVID with gigantic oversized Q-tips.

01:04:46.000 His brother was putting sick people in nursing homes, resulting in an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 dead.

01:04:51.000 Blamed Trump.

01:04:52.000 Said, well, Trump said this.

01:04:54.000 Not even true.

01:04:55.000 Numerous outlets fact-checked this.

01:04:58.000 And it's funny because normally I'm not a big fan of the corporate press, but it was so ubiquitous in the press that Trump never said to put sick patients in nursing homes.

01:05:06.000 But we saw many Democrat governors do this, and just Democrat governors.

01:05:10.000 Here's a guy now, who apparently has gone on, uh, I think he was on PBD, I'm not sure where he was on, saying that he's actually suffering from, uh, side effects, or some kind of, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, some kind of side effect, or long- I don't know what he's, something like that, and he's taking ivermectin now.

01:05:24.000 Now, I certainly do believe in redemption, but...

01:05:28.000 It is tough for me, because Chris Cuomo was such an egregious actor as a component of CNN.

01:05:34.000 I wonder, what is the purpose of trying to rehabilitate a guy with no following, who offers up nothing other than he would sell you to your death during the lockdowns?

01:05:45.000 I don't quite understand why they brought him on.

01:05:48.000 Now, Patrick Bette David had said he wants to be more neutral and bring in the other side.

01:05:54.000 My rebuttal is Chris Cuomo doesn't represent the other side.

01:05:56.000 Nope.

01:05:57.000 He was a corporate employee of a news outlet.

01:06:00.000 He did not have a big following.

01:06:02.000 There's no, like, you know, Chris Cuomo big fan base.

01:06:06.000 His viewership on NewsNation is relatively low.

01:06:08.000 This idea—so perhaps it's just an oversight on PBD's part, or that's what he truly thinks, and I'm wrong, and that's fine.

01:06:16.000 And I will lightly address the earlier tweet controversy, which is actually quite hilarious.

01:06:21.000 I didn't know Patrick McDavid was mad.

01:06:23.000 But I actually got asked to do this debate.

01:06:27.000 So I don't know exactly how it happened.

01:06:28.000 I was contacted by a company that does PR work for us, and they asked me if I would debate Chris Cuomo on PBD's show Saturday morning.

01:06:35.000 And I said it's impossible because we do a live show Friday night.

01:06:40.000 And there's no flights.

01:06:42.000 If we left the show Friday night, I get to the airport at 11, best case scenario, 1130, and then there's no flights to Miami, so the only way we could do a Saturday morning show is if I got a private jet.

01:06:54.000 I don't know if that's something they can do.

01:06:56.000 And then I hear back from this PR company saying, they said, what about doing a Saturday night debate with Cuomo?

01:07:03.000 And I was like, look, I'd love to.

01:07:05.000 I'd love to sit down and do this conversation, because I was like, I tweeted these two questions.

01:07:10.000 What do you think your son learned from you when he watched you emerge from your basement after faking being in COVID lockdown?

01:07:15.000 Do you think he learned more from you or do you think he'll take more after your brother who murdered people and then tried to blame it on Trump?

01:07:20.000 I'd love to sit down with this guy.

01:07:22.000 But doing a Saturday night show, I said, well, that would mean wrap the show, go to bed, wake up.

01:07:27.000 Then it's packing.

01:07:30.000 Travel to the airport, hour.

01:07:31.000 Commercial flight, three and a half hours, plus an hour each way in the airport.

01:07:35.000 So hour to the airport, hour wait in the airport, you know, security, all that stuff.

01:07:39.000 Three and a half hour flight, hour from the airport to the destination to arrive just in time for a podcast, do the debate, go to sleep, wake up, same routine on the plane.

01:07:49.000 And I was like, the challenge is by the time I get back Sunday, I have done 14 hours of airline travel in two days, and then I have to record a show on Monday morning.

01:07:58.000 I don't think I can do it.

01:07:59.000 So, like, unless we can do a private jet, it's not possible.

01:08:02.000 And then I guess PBD got offended.

01:08:04.000 I don't know if he knew the full context or whatever.

01:08:06.000 And I responded.

01:08:07.000 Someone asked, like, why don't we do this?

01:08:09.000 I said, actually, I turned it down.

01:08:11.000 And that's not to imply there's anything wrong with their debate.

01:08:13.000 I was upset about their debate or that I was like, how dare you?

01:08:16.000 I refuse to do it.

01:08:17.000 I was just like, yeah, I said I couldn't do it.

01:08:19.000 And PBD tweeted at me, got mad.

01:08:22.000 And I think he may have misinterpreted my tweet as to imply something negative about his debate.

01:08:26.000 Whereas my point was simply, we'd love to have Chris Cuomo here.

01:08:29.000 I would love to see Dave Smith ragging him.

01:08:31.000 I think this is going to be epic.

01:08:32.000 Dave Smith is a way better choice than me.

01:08:34.000 And I was unable to do it because of scheduling constraints.

01:08:36.000 And so there's that.

01:08:38.000 Now that that's been addressed, the big question is, is there a redemption arc for someone like Chris Cuomo, knowing everything we know about what he said?

01:08:46.000 He's the guy who went on CNN and said, who said protests need to be peaceful?

01:08:51.000 While people were burning down police stations, people died.

01:08:57.000 Only if he admits he was wrong.

01:08:58.000 Captain David Dorn was shot and killed during this riots.

01:09:00.000 And Cuomo goes on TV and says, who says they have to be peaceful? I'm like, dude, people

01:09:03.000 are being murdered. 0.57

01:09:05.000 Small businesses have put up things in their windows saying, please don't hurt us.

01:09:08.000 Is there a redemption for this guy? Only if he admits he was wrong.

01:09:13.000 If he admits he was wrong and admits even in this debate that he made a lot of

01:09:18.000 egregious statements in the heat of emotion during COVID, or he was listening to his

01:09:24.000 corporate overlords and he was just following orders and now he realizes it was a mistake, or

01:09:29.000 he shouldn't have backed his brother, but family ties, he just had to like,

01:09:33.000 if you admit you were wrong, then yeah, absolutely. I would love to hear you talk and let's hear what

01:09:38.000 you have to say. And I will even give you a fraction of the benefit of the doubt that you

01:09:42.000 might be genuine. 0.75

01:09:43.000 But the fact that he's papering over it like he never made those comments shows me that he's a total fraud.

01:09:48.000 There's zero redemption arc for someone like this who's not willing to admit they just want to gaslight you into believing they never said these things in the first place.

01:09:57.000 And by the way, he's not the only one.

01:09:58.000 There are tons of people asking for COVID redemption.

01:10:00.000 We didn't know.

01:10:01.000 It's like, no, we knew and we were quieted, silenced.

01:10:04.000 I knew.

01:10:04.000 Look at the mask flip-flopping.

01:10:06.000 Yep.

01:10:07.000 And the lockdown.

01:10:08.000 Hydromectin.

01:10:08.000 Hydroxychloroquine.

01:10:10.000 There's so much mask flip-flopping, but the lockdown flip-flopping, I think, is the hilarious element of it.

01:10:16.000 Democrat politicians being like, I never said we should force businesses to lock down.

01:10:20.000 And then DefiantLs on Twitter will post them.

01:10:22.000 Just post the videos.

01:10:24.000 Or it's like two tweets where one's like, it is important that every business shut down whether they believe they should or not, because we're all in this together.

01:10:31.000 And then a year later, be like, I never said that.

01:10:33.000 I suppose the question I have, or I suppose my feeling on the issue is, you know, I talked about Joey Salads a while ago.

01:10:42.000 He's not really been, you know, in the limelight these past few years, but his big thing was several years ago, he filmed a fake video where he put a car in a parking lot with like Trump stuff inside of it and then hired black dudes to destroy it. 0.60

01:10:55.000 And he was like, he made a video where he's like, what'll happen if I leave a car in this neighborhood with all this Trump stuff on it and then faked it and someone caught him doing it? 1.00

01:11:03.000 I insulted him, I said, screw you, you're fake news, you're a liar, you're a bad guy. 0.99

01:11:08.000 And then I thought about it, he had a lot of fans, and I was like, if this guy has a big following, and he has no redemption opportunities, the only direction he can go is toward the darkness. 0.99

01:11:20.000 So if we say, I accept your apology, do better, welcome to the right side, then you bring someone to the fold.

01:11:27.000 That being said, I don't know if Chris Cuomo is redeemable in that regard.

01:11:33.000 Joey Salads was a guy who was just like, this video makes me views, and was kind of bumbling about and just getting wrapped up in chasing algorithms and making fake videos.

01:11:45.000 Chris Cuomo is a guy who knowingly goes on a show every night for years and just does what he's told.

01:11:54.000 My concern is in the difference, and maybe there's not a big enough difference,

01:11:57.000 maybe it is fair to say Cuomo deserves redemption and or Joey didn't or whatever it is.

01:12:01.000 My concern is that Chris Cuomo doesn't care at all.

01:12:06.000 Doesn't feel any remorse.

01:12:07.000 He's simply saying, this boat is sinking.

01:12:10.000 I better jump to the one to my left.

01:12:12.000 Or in this instance, to his right.

01:12:14.000 And now he's trying to make it seem like I'm on your side, guys.

01:12:17.000 Someone posted a meme of him, the Steve Buscemi thing, where he's got the skateboard from 30 Rock.

01:12:21.000 And it was Chris Cuomo saying, how do you do, fellow conservatives?

01:12:26.000 It's pretty clear that he's just trying to save his own neck, or he's doing what he can to save his career.

01:12:30.000 I mean, it's... I don't think that... Well, okay, I can't speak for anyone else, but I never expected a whole lot of integrity out of people from CNN, or I haven't expected a lot of integrity out of them.

01:12:41.000 The behavior isn't a surprise.

01:12:44.000 Nobody should be surprised.

01:12:45.000 I'm not surprised that he's got another job in the media because at the end of the day, it's clicks that people are looking for nowadays.

01:12:53.000 And I think that even if he is getting hate clicks, if he's the guy that people hate on PBD's channel, then you can make money off of being clicks, you know, absolutely.

01:13:04.000 So, you know, he's and he's going to, you know, he's going to do what he needs to do to try and, you know, pay his bills and make sure that he can, you know, This is something that Ian brought up, which is a really good point, because we talk about Chris Cuomo faking the quarantine. 0.76

01:13:18.000 I mean, that is like, holy crap, above and beyond.

01:13:22.000 And the story for those unfamiliar is Cuomo was on CNN every night being like, I'm here in quarantine, you know, look at me, I've been working out, I'm sweaty. 0.69

01:13:29.000 And then he goes on his radio show and says, some guy with a fat tire bike is talking to me, don't you talk to me.

01:13:36.000 Which kind of exposed him as admitting he had traveled out of quarantine.

01:13:41.000 Some guy riding his bike saw him and said, aren't you supposed to be in quarantine?

01:13:44.000 You're on TV every night.

01:13:46.000 And Cuomo starts yelling at him, basically admits it, proves the story's real.

01:13:51.000 Ian points out, we talked about how on CNN he merges from the basement.

01:13:56.000 It's nuts.

01:13:57.000 I think it was even like Nate Silver was like, it is insane that CNN thought they could pull that off.

01:14:02.000 When everyone knew how big the story was that he had faked that he was out of quarantine.

01:14:08.000 Ian pointed out, as he's walking up, his son is sitting there watching him do it.

01:14:12.000 Think about what you tell your child.

01:14:15.000 When you're like, I'm now gonna go on TV, we're gonna blast this message out

01:14:19.000 to a couple hundred people that are watching CNN. 0.99

01:14:23.000 I'm being a dick, but your kid watches you lie to the world. 0.98

01:14:27.000 And I wonder if his kid asked him, like, dad, that's not true, why did you say that? 1.00

01:14:32.000 Or if his kid just says, lying is okay, we should be liars.

01:14:35.000 That's the lesson he's learning, certainly.

01:14:37.000 I mean, I think, you know, somebody can be really a candidate for a beautiful redemption story, and that doesn't mean you ever put them on TV again.

01:14:46.000 So, you know, there are lots of criminals, and by the way, I do think Chris Cuomo is a criminal.

01:14:52.000 I mean that full-heartedly. 0.91

01:14:54.000 His rhetoric led to people probably withholding treatment from themselves that could have made them better because they were afraid of looking like a lunatic that took horse pills.

01:15:05.000 Well, I want to mention, specifically, is the people who died during the Summer of Love riots.

01:15:11.000 Yes.

01:15:12.000 We had someone- David Dorn's a perfect example.

01:15:14.000 And he's the guy on TV saying, He's the guy on TV saying, who says these protests have to be peaceful?

01:15:20.000 Yep.

01:15:21.000 I think most importantly is the whole debate at the time, especially around the medical stuff, there was this two-fold scenario where they would go on TV and tell you what to do or not to do.

01:15:37.000 And this is a remarkable thing, be it Fauci, be it Cuomo, be it Anderson Cooper, any one of these people on the corporate press, Celebrities would tell you what medical treatment you should get despite not being doctors.

01:15:50.000 And if anyone else said something comparable, you'd be banned.

01:15:54.000 You'd be censored.

01:15:55.000 You'd be shut down.

01:15:56.000 So, I have no problem saying this.

01:15:59.000 And to all of our friends at YouTube, we're not doctors.

01:16:00.000 We're not here to give medical advice.

01:16:01.000 I don't know.

01:16:02.000 Don't look at me.

01:16:03.000 But Chris Cuomo?

01:16:05.000 He can go on CNN.

01:16:06.000 Anderson Cooper, they can go on CNN and give medical advice all day every day. 0.90

01:16:09.000 Mock you.

01:16:10.000 The thing about ivermectin specifically is that doctors actually prescribed it.

01:16:15.000 Now, I assume they must be crazy doctors because YouTube says you're not allowed to do that.

01:16:20.000 Well, I don't know.

01:16:21.000 I just tell people go talk to your doctor.

01:16:22.000 We're not medical experts here, but Chris Cuomo mocked people.

01:16:26.000 Now, the crazy thing about it and the worst part about what he did is you can get prescribed it if you have worms.

01:16:35.000 Yes, it's one of the most commonly used medicines in all of Africa.

01:16:39.000 There was a Nobel Award.

01:16:41.000 Peace Prize, yes.

01:16:42.000 Not a Peace Prize, but a Nobel Prize for the development of the medicine from the guy who actually created it.

01:16:48.000 Remember what they did to Joe Rogan?

01:16:50.000 I think it was CNN, right?

01:16:51.000 They made him look pale and weird and sickly.

01:16:54.000 Yellow and gangrene looking.

01:16:55.000 Yo, that is so out.

01:16:56.000 They're super ethical, you know? 0.96

01:16:57.000 So gross.

01:16:58.000 Anyway, not to get into all that, I guess the big question is that I see a lot of people are on Twitter up in arms about, there are a lot of people who I think are actually Good.

01:17:12.000 Are cool with Cuomo being brought on to the PBD network and all that stuff.

01:17:17.000 And there are a lot of people that are basically saying he's going full CNN by pulling him in.

01:17:21.000 I don't know.

01:17:22.000 It seems to me, like, if you want redemption, you have to be honest about what happened, right?

01:17:28.000 Like, you'd have to acknowledge, like, yes, I said these things, yes, like, I faked being quarantined, or whatever, whatever the problem is, and then, you know, walk everyone through how we got to the other end.

01:17:40.000 Otherwise, it just seems like, well, I was getting paid to do one thing, and they're not paying me anymore, so I'm gonna do the other thing, and that's obviously what's disingenuous.

01:17:49.000 I I don't follow a ton of Chris Cuomo's content.

01:17:52.000 I don't know if someone has directly asked him about these things.

01:17:55.000 I don't think so.

01:17:57.000 But until he has openly addressed the controversy, I don't think that there is a way that he could seem trustworthy to most Americans.

01:18:04.000 He'll always have the same bias.

01:18:05.000 Maybe he did.

01:18:06.000 I don't watch his stuff.

01:18:06.000 I don't know.

01:18:07.000 So I'll give it that much.

01:18:09.000 He doubled down on a lot with Tucker in that interview.

01:18:12.000 That's right.

01:18:13.000 He's still got his... And by the way, I believe in these redemption arc stories.

01:18:16.000 Even you talk about accepting those folks that have kind of reformed in their thinking and come into the movement.

01:18:22.000 Men like, dang, I was wrong.

01:18:23.000 And they detail the path.

01:18:24.000 Which can be helpful to other people.

01:18:26.000 It can be amazing.

01:18:27.000 I think of a perfect example.

01:18:29.000 I'm a big fan of Tulsi Gabbard.

01:18:30.000 Ten years ago, most of what Tulsi Gabbard said probably would have repulsed me.

01:18:35.000 Today though, and I've witnessed over the last decade, the way that she's become a leader in the movement for human liberties and flourishing in our country, and especially with her position in the military, now speaking out against all this foreign aid, trying to protect our borders.

01:18:49.000 She has proven and put the time in over the years that she really is for this movement.

01:18:53.000 Chris Cuomo just arose two years later and is like, now I'm going to act like I still deserve a position of authority in your life and I did nothing to earn it.

01:19:01.000 I just want to say, though, I think it's a great debate.

01:19:03.000 I'm glad they're doing it.

01:19:04.000 I look forward to Dave Smith.

01:19:06.000 He's fantastic.

01:19:09.000 And I think it's going to be a really interesting and widely viewed show.

01:19:13.000 So shout out.

01:19:14.000 Good luck, PBD, with that one.

01:19:15.000 And Dave Smith is an excellent choice for this.

01:19:18.000 But let's jump to this next story.

01:19:20.000 Degeneracy.

01:19:21.000 I love this.

01:19:22.000 It's so sad.

01:19:22.000 said. Only fans, drugs and 9-11 taunts. Dublin to New York portal taken offline over inappropriate

01:19:29.000 behavior. The innovative sculptures linked the two cities together, but were soon hijacked

01:19:34.000 by people intent on anti-social antics.

01:19:37.000 So I don't know how many of you guys saw this story, but we have the, uh, this portal sculpture

01:19:44.000 they built, got a camera on it and a screen. And it's basically just an active live stream

01:19:49.000 because the people put together apparently never heard of the, he will not divide us

01:19:53.000 campaign by Shia LaBeouf, the best scavenger hunt of all time. That's right. And so I remember,

01:19:59.000 so they basically built these two screens that broadcast to New York and Dublin.

01:20:04.000 And, aw, look how cute it is.

01:20:06.000 At first, it was, Hello from New York!

01:20:07.000 We love you, Dublin! 0.93

01:20:09.000 And I don't know if they actually have the photos in here, but some, like, there you go, some hooker walks up and just flashes the thing. 0.97

01:20:16.000 This was really interesting.

01:20:18.000 This is what really was really interesting.

01:20:19.000 So they shut it down because they're like, people were doing drugs in front of it and just like crazy stuff.

01:20:24.000 In New York, you are legally allowed, women are legally allowed to take their tops off and walk around, you know, their boobs flopping around. 1.00

01:20:32.000 There was a ruling that it is unconstitutional.

01:20:33.000 It's a violation of civil human rights law to have different standards for men and women.

01:20:39.000 So if men can be shirtless, women can be shirtless. 0.98

01:20:41.000 I kind of felt like the solution is men should wear shirts, but you know, whatever.

01:20:44.000 Yeah, can't we just make men not allowed to be shirtless in New York?

01:20:47.000 I would prefer that, actually.

01:20:48.000 You can go that way, too.

01:20:49.000 It's like, guys, start wearing shirts.

01:20:50.000 But anyway, the thing is, what she's doing is not illegal.

01:20:54.000 She is in New York, where it is legal to be topless.

01:20:58.000 I don't know the law in Dublin, but I was just thinking, like, there are a lot of things in New York that are illegal, that are not legal in Dublin, and vice versa.

01:21:05.000 And so that means, what she's doing, like, I don't know, is there a crime being committed?

01:21:12.000 Because But are there kids who can see this, maybe?

01:21:16.000 You know what I mean?

01:21:17.000 Yeah, is it like an indecent exposure violation?

01:21:20.000 Not in New York!

01:21:22.000 If she goes to Dublin, does she get arrested?

01:21:23.000 But if I'm exposing myself to someone in Dublin, how does that work?

01:21:27.000 In New York City.

01:21:27.000 I mean, you couldn't obviously hold anybody accountable for it from Ireland.

01:21:30.000 Women are allowed to be topless. 1.00

01:21:32.000 So that means, there are women who walk around New York topless. 1.00

01:21:35.000 And people can, kids, anybody can see them.

01:21:38.000 It's not illegal.

01:21:39.000 But in Dublin, like, if she flies there, would she go to jail?

01:21:43.000 If the guy doing drugs, like, what is, I don't know, I suppose the story is just funny, because like, what did you expect to happen?

01:21:50.000 Yeah, this was never going to go anywhere good.

01:21:53.000 It's a it's shows you someone in society is optimistic, right?

01:21:56.000 They were like, we can put this out there.

01:21:58.000 It'll just be like a nice thing where people wave at each other.

01:22:00.000 Like, that's almost adorable.

01:22:02.000 You know, I hope there are more people like that.

01:22:05.000 I think the girl flashing the camera is obviously completely self absorbed. 1.00

01:22:09.000 I think The fact that you were like, you know what everyone needs to see right now?

01:22:13.000 Me.

01:22:13.000 You know, that's not a great representation of American culture.

01:22:16.000 I'm sad that this is our export to Ireland.

01:22:19.000 But I don't know of any time when someone was like, well, we're going to leave a live webcam streaming just on and on and on.

01:22:26.000 Like, no one has ever been like, great idea.

01:22:28.000 Let's do it.

01:22:29.000 No liability.

01:22:29.000 There was the other one that broke Shia LaBeouf.

01:22:36.000 People would do all kinds of stuff.

01:22:38.000 Broke that man right in half.

01:22:39.000 And it was a game after that, which is hilarious.

01:22:41.000 It was awesome, because I went there several times.

01:22:44.000 Like, I'm in New York and I heard about it, and I'm like, I'm gonna go check this out.

01:22:46.000 And it was a party!

01:22:48.000 Shia LaBeouf set up a livestream where he, what was it like, it was called He Will Not Divide Us, and there was like an active livestream.

01:22:53.000 It was anti-Trump, yeah.

01:22:55.000 And then people started going and holding up signs and doing weird, crazy things.

01:23:00.000 4chan things.

01:23:01.000 Yeah, it got so bad!

01:23:03.000 That Shia LaBeouf took the livestream to the middle of nowhere with the camera pointing up at a flag that said, he will not divide us.

01:23:10.000 I think the first thing he did was he put on a route.

01:23:12.000 No, was it second?

01:23:13.000 I don't know.

01:23:13.000 All I know is there were two instances.

01:23:15.000 He moved it more than once.

01:23:16.000 First, you could only see in the livestream a blue sky and the flag saying, he will not divide us.

01:23:21.000 They found it.

01:23:23.000 They heard frogs croaking at night, so they knew it was near still water, because frogs don't like running water.

01:23:28.000 And then they looked at the contrails from planes, and then looked at the- they said a place where frogs are, still water, and two planes are intersecting.

01:23:39.000 They found that thing so fast.

01:23:42.000 It was amazing.

01:23:43.000 I'm deeply impressed.

01:23:44.000 That's scary. 0.96

01:23:45.000 Again, something that brought us all together, this hilarious game where we have to find Shia LaBeouf's dumb thing.

01:23:50.000 Do you follow that GeoGuessr guy on YouTube?

01:23:52.000 Yes.

01:23:54.000 He can look at one picture anywhere in the world and goes through this whole process of analyzing the picture and ends up finding the spot.

01:24:00.000 Is he the guy who did the album cover of the guy in the alley in Louisville?

01:24:04.000 Yes.

01:24:04.000 I watched that.

01:24:05.000 It's fascinating.

01:24:07.000 People will be like, oh, my parents took this picture somewhere.

01:24:09.000 I don't know where it is.

01:24:10.000 And I'll be like, bam, here you go.

01:24:11.000 Yeah.

01:24:12.000 Incredible.

01:24:12.000 The funny thing was like, I watched this video and he goes, here's, I forgot the guy's name of the album cover, but he's like, it's, he's like, the singer's from Louisville, so.

01:24:22.000 It's probably in Louisville. 0.89

01:24:24.000 And I was like, oh, well that was dumb. 0.88

01:24:25.000 He figured it out because the guy was from there. 0.79

01:24:27.000 And then he finds the address, he finds the Google Maps, and he zooms in and he finds where it is on Google Earth.

01:24:32.000 And I was like, oh wow, that was amazing.

01:24:34.000 He's legit.

01:24:34.000 There's another guy who just had a viral seven-part arc trying to find this skateboarder.

01:24:41.000 I wonder if I can actually look him up on Instagram, because I've been watching these videos.

01:24:44.000 They're really, really amazing.

01:24:47.000 Let me pull this one up.

01:24:48.000 He did this collaboration with Tony Hawk.

01:24:50.000 Let me see what the guy's name is if it pops up.

01:24:52.000 Here we go.

01:24:53.000 We got it.

01:24:53.000 So this is Danocracy on Instagram.

01:24:58.000 And what he does is he tracks down people found in old vintage photographs.

01:25:05.000 And it's wild to watch this stuff.

01:25:07.000 So he did seven episodes trying to find this mystery skateboarder from an old Life Magazine photo shoot in Central Park.

01:25:15.000 Couldn't find him.

01:25:16.000 He found everyone else, though.

01:25:18.000 It's really wild.

01:25:19.000 There's women, there's kids. 1.00

01:25:21.000 He found these people.

01:25:22.000 It's really amazing.

01:25:23.000 What if the skateboarder went missing and is a missing person and that's how we solve a true crime?

01:25:28.000 Sure!

01:25:28.000 I like it.

01:25:29.000 So this is back in 1965 and it's a guy wearing a suit riding like one of the first prototype skateboards and they're trying to figure out who this guy is because none of it makes sense like he's so comfortable on a board hands are in his pocket skateboards were a new thing how's he riding so well and he's wearing a suit couldn't find him but Point is, someone will send him a photo and be like, I found this photo at a thrift store.

01:25:51.000 And then he's like, I'm going to find out who this person is.

01:25:53.000 And so then he checks the time, the date, the location.

01:25:56.000 He looks at other people who are there, the clothing they're wearing, so he can figure out like the time and all that stuff.

01:26:00.000 It's really cool stuff.

01:26:01.000 This is sweet.

01:26:02.000 Yeah.

01:26:03.000 I need to watch more of his videos because they're fun.

01:26:04.000 Look, the internet can be a very cool thing, but other times... Other times it leads to this.

01:26:10.000 You know that running joke of people coming up to Tony Hawk and being like, has anybody ever told you you look like Tony Hawk?

01:26:16.000 Yeah, because he always tweets it.

01:26:16.000 Yeah, this happens all the time.

01:26:17.000 It's hilarious.

01:26:19.000 It's because he's famous, but he's a weird kind of famous.

01:26:24.000 So he always has these tweets where I was on a plane and someone said, you look like that skateboarder guy, Tony Hawk, or whatever.

01:26:28.000 And he's like, oh, really?

01:26:29.000 I like the one with I think it was a TSA agent like checking his ticket.

01:26:32.000 She was like, Anthony, Tony Hawk, like the skateboarder.

01:26:35.000 Oh, Anthony Hawk.

01:26:36.000 And he was like, yeah.

01:26:36.000 And she was like, I wonder what he's up to.

01:26:41.000 This is me.

01:26:42.000 But it's funny because he's basically like, it's a weird thing to be famous for.

01:26:46.000 So people heard the name, but they don't know what it looks like.

01:26:48.000 Yeah.

01:26:49.000 Well, as for this, this portal, you know, you're the first thing I think of when I when I see stuff like this.

01:26:57.000 I think Now I get Bill Gates.

01:26:59.000 I don't think it goes that far for me.

01:27:06.000 But you know, I didn't say I agree with him.

01:27:11.000 It shows that people are inherently optimistic.

01:27:16.000 Because whenever you propose these kind of things, the first thing I think of is like all the ways that you can just like, make it a bad idea.

01:27:24.000 But someone was like, no, it'll be nice.

01:27:26.000 You can see the signs they printed like we love I saw some dudes holding up his phone, he's got porn playing on it.

01:27:33.000 Did you guys see the climate scientist who said the only way to stop the emissions is through a pandemic that culls most of humans or something like that?

01:27:42.000 Don't let that man anywhere near power.

01:27:46.000 These are people saying to cull 5 billion to save 500 million, at least Thanos was like 50-50.

01:27:52.000 Like, geez, utilitarianism gone.

01:27:54.000 That's the crazy thing about it.

01:27:55.000 It's like, we must kill 99% of people to save 1% and that's how far it goes.

01:28:01.000 I think that that idea is one of the most dangerous ideas going around now.

01:28:04.000 That people are bad.

01:28:05.000 And I'll tell you why it's fake.

01:28:07.000 I can debunk the whole narrative right now with one simple logical point.

01:28:12.000 The first question is, why avert climate crisis?

01:28:17.000 Any answers?

01:28:19.000 Why avert the crisis?

01:28:20.000 Yeah, why is the climate crisis a bad thing?

01:28:24.000 Well, this is the irony in it, because it affects our population, and it affects the world, and our ability to thrive here, and it affects the ecosystem, people are gonna die, it's gonna make it more expensive, food shortages, which is inherently a love and care for humanity, and wanting to protect our home.

01:28:40.000 This is the illogic of the culling human statement that he made.

01:28:44.000 If the fear of climate change is that it will kill humans, Killing humans just makes it a moot point.

01:28:50.000 Exactly.

01:28:51.000 So there's no reason to do it.

01:28:53.000 If your concern is there are too many humans and the Earth needs to heal, you need only wait, right?

01:28:58.000 Wait for climate change to call the humans like you've prescribed, and then Earth heals.

01:29:02.000 Unless you have one say on which humans are getting taken out.

01:29:05.000 Exactly.

01:29:06.000 The issue is never the issue.

01:29:07.000 The issue is always the revolution.

01:29:10.000 And they call it, like it's green on the outside, red on the inside, or whatever, like the green Environmental, environmentalism is the front, but inside it's actually just the front for communism.

01:29:22.000 Some type of socialism, eco-socialism, it's always an excuse to just acquire power and to be able to tell people how they have to live their lives and what they should do and etc.

01:29:32.000 And they always choose the most sad, depressing spokespeople.

01:29:35.000 These people are not healthy. 0.83

01:29:38.000 They look morbid.

01:29:39.000 They're not enjoying life.

01:29:41.000 You see them channeling their inner frustration at the world.

01:29:44.000 It's not about any grander vision of what the world should be.

01:29:47.000 They're just angry and depressed and frustrated at the world.

01:29:50.000 They're lashing out against their conservative dad.

01:29:53.000 Most of this is just that.

01:29:55.000 But on top of that, the United States, it was just revealed last week that we have the lowest population growth in over 100 years.

01:30:02.000 I got bad news for y'all.

01:30:02.000 That's a major problem.

01:30:04.000 So if you have this whole culture wailing this message of the growth of families is

01:30:08.000 a problem because it's going to strip your economic opportunities, it's bad for the climate,

01:30:13.000 etc.

01:30:14.000 Like that's the death of a nation.

01:30:15.000 You just signed the death wish.

01:30:17.000 So we'll just do it.

01:30:18.000 We'll get into this a little bit just for a couple minutes.

01:30:19.000 Social Security funds are set to fall short by 2020, 2033.

01:30:23.000 NPR reporting this two days ago.

01:30:26.000 I got bad news for y'all.

01:30:28.000 In nine years, there will not be enough money in Social Security to pay the people who rely

01:30:34.000 on it.

01:30:36.000 At some point, it won't matter how much you tax people.

01:30:40.000 Older people are going to get cut off from benefits.

01:30:42.000 They're going to have no way to fund shelters, nursing homes, and the elderly. 1.00

01:30:48.000 The issue really comes down to this.

01:30:49.000 Right now, we could raise taxes.

01:30:50.000 It's like, okay, we need more money for Social Security, we gotta raise taxes on everybody.

01:30:54.000 And that strains the younger generation.

01:30:57.000 Eventually, there's no one to tax.

01:31:00.000 The birth rate, fertility rate is so low, eventually you get to the point where there's three elderly for every one young person, and that one young person cannot sustain three elderly people.

01:31:12.000 And that's when it all breaks down.

01:31:15.000 Older people are going to keep voting for their interests. 1.00

01:31:17.000 That's just one of the ways it can break down.

01:31:18.000 It is one of the ways.

01:31:19.000 Here's what I think.

01:31:20.000 I think Social Security is insane in the first place.

01:31:22.000 Of course.

01:31:23.000 Like, the problem, this welfare system opens the door to families not being there for their elderly.

01:31:30.000 The elderly should be cared for by their families. 1.00

01:31:33.000 It should be a personal thing.

01:31:35.000 But now Social Security has become a dependency because we created it, and now too many people rely on it.

01:31:41.000 And now it's going to break.

01:31:42.000 You've broken the culture of people taking care of family.

01:31:46.000 You've created a dependency on government and now government is failing.

01:31:51.000 What I see is older people who are on their own vote way more than younger people.

01:31:56.000 So they will vote for whatever they have to vote for to get money.

01:31:59.000 And eventually that will lead to a very weird system where I wouldn't be surprised if Social Security failing, older people vote On something as insane as younger people have to give up 100% of their income and live off, you know, young people should live off the welfare and should get government housing and do labor and have no disposable income and then once they're old enough they'll earn it. 0.92

01:32:24.000 That way we can have our money in our golden years.

01:32:27.000 I'm not saying every older person is like that.

01:32:29.000 I'm saying that it's just a pressure system.

01:32:33.000 Enough older people will be staring down the barrel of, your benefits will expire next week. 0.98

01:32:38.000 And they're going to say, what can I vote for?

01:32:40.000 Well, there's a new system, a new vote that would be in favor of drafting young people into civil service so that we can keep funding the system.

01:32:48.000 I'll say, I'm for it.

01:32:50.000 And young people are going to be like, I don't vote.

01:32:52.000 And there you go.

01:32:53.000 New system you get.

01:32:54.000 Yeah, I mean, what happens in 2033 when the people that have paid into this their entire lives are forced to reckon with the fact that it's all a scam?

01:33:04.000 Do they feel frustration at the folks that have...

01:33:07.000 Push them into the scam for decades?

01:33:09.000 Do they wallow in apathy?

01:33:11.000 Is this the beginning of a universal basic income and we start with the elderly? 0.76

01:33:15.000 In South Korea, you know, they've dealt with it.

01:33:17.000 But where does the labor come from?

01:33:18.000 Exactly.

01:33:19.000 There's nobody to supply any of the care or the services or certainly the income from a taxation perspective to fund all of that.

01:33:26.000 But the income is immaterial at a certain point.

01:33:28.000 You can print all the money in the world.

01:33:30.000 You can tax everything you want.

01:33:32.000 But if the labor doesn't exist, you're buying nothing with your money.

01:33:35.000 Oh yeah, of course.

01:33:36.000 That's why population collapse is so dangerous.

01:33:37.000 Exactly.

01:33:38.000 If we get to the point where they say, okay, fine, universal basic income, the old person's going to walk to the supermarket and there's going to be no one working there. 0.98

01:33:43.000 They're going to be like, where's the staff?

01:33:45.000 They're going to be like, there are none.

01:33:47.000 We have one employee.

01:33:48.000 And they're going to be like, where is everybody?

01:33:48.000 He's off today.

01:33:51.000 There are no young people.

01:33:52.000 There's no young people.

01:33:54.000 The government can print you a million dollars.

01:33:55.000 You can't spend it.

01:33:57.000 We at Public Square own the fastest growing baby brand in the world.

01:34:00.000 It's called Every Life, and we launched a campaign in January called Make More Babies, and we put a big Times Square billboard up.

01:34:09.000 I remember that.

01:34:09.000 It said, Make More Babies, and we had a wonderful team of influencers that were there, and Ashley St.

01:34:16.000 Clair was actually on the ground interviewing people and asking them, do you believe in this statement?

01:34:21.000 Do you believe that we should make more babies?

01:34:23.000 Do you believe that it's good for the world?

01:34:24.000 And some people gave an emphatic yes, absolutely.

01:34:27.000 Like, it's natural to reproduce and it's beautiful to populate the world and we should create a legacy. 0.93

01:34:32.000 A shocking amount of people, though, gave completely ridiculous, reckless answers. 0.80

01:34:36.000 Like, oh no, bad for the climate. 0.96

01:34:38.000 Oh no, too expensive.

01:34:39.000 Oh no.

01:34:40.000 It's like, how short-sighted And how, by the way, narcissistic do you have to be to believe that like, mm, mm, no, my comforts are too, like we used to be, as you described earlier in the show, we used to be a nation where the American dream, or maybe this was before we were recording, but it was brilliant, you said the American dream used to be that a family would come here and they would be willing to live in a tiny studio, they would work all their lives so that their kids one day could own the house in the suburbs.

01:35:08.000 Yep.

01:35:09.000 Today, when you interview somebody and you ask them, oh, you know, do you think make more babies is a good thing for the world? 0.98

01:35:15.000 And they answer, no, no, no, no, definitely not in this economy.

01:35:18.000 It's like you've completely lost sight of your mandate as a human, which is like to make your community a better place.

01:35:24.000 And one of the ways that you do that for the vast majority of people is have kids.

01:35:27.000 Be fruitful and multiply.

01:35:28.000 When I worked at O'Hare Airport, there were a lot of Filipino guys that would work 80 hours a week. There was one guy who

01:35:35.000 tried working a double shift every single day and they put him on mandatory vacation because of legal

01:35:40.000 limits.

01:35:41.000 So he was trying to work no days off, every day, double shifts.

01:35:46.000 Dude.

01:35:47.000 And, well, one of the issues is that you start generating overtime after you work a certain

01:35:52.000 amount of hours.

01:35:53.000 So, the way the union organized it was that it was actually really cool.

01:35:57.000 You could trade shifts with anyone by logging into the computer.

01:36:00.000 They didn't care who was there as long as you were there.

01:36:03.000 So, what I ended up doing was I had Monday through Friday off, and I would work Saturday and Sunday from 5.30 till midnight.

01:36:11.000 I would sleep at the airport, work 5.30 in the morning, work all the way till night, and then Monday through Friday, I had every day off, and I was getting 30, it was 36 hours, and you'd get mandatory overtime, typically on Saturday nights.

01:36:25.000 If you work the night shift, you almost always got, they call it Mando, because planes come, if a plane comes late, and you're on the morning shift, you leave.

01:36:31.000 Guys who are coming in will take care of it.

01:36:32.000 If you're on the night shift, you're the last shift, a plane comes in, you have to stay, and you get time and a half.

01:36:37.000 There was one guy who refused to take any time off, and it was because he moved here from the Philippines.

01:36:45.000 He was in his, like, 60s.

01:36:47.000 He had older teenage kids, and he wanted them to go to college.

01:36:53.000 And they said that's the American dream.

01:36:55.000 The American dream is that when they were in the Philippines, they were dreaming of coming to America and working for $10 an hour.

01:37:02.000 The American dream was that they could come and they could work every waking moment of their lives, but for $10 an hour.

01:37:09.000 And their kids would get to go to school and get a job and one day own a house.

01:37:14.000 Now you ask young people what's the American dream and they say to make it big on TikTok and then be rich and get to go and party and it's like wow that was never the American dream.

01:37:24.000 Ownership of property was that was the thing that people wanted like it used to be where like people the American dream was to be able to have a house and a family and the property was a big part of it because In other countries, property rights weren't as secure as they are in the U.S., and the security of the property rights in the United States is the driver of our economy.

01:37:44.000 It's what makes your entire society capable of producing the products and services that you need.

01:37:53.000 So property rights are fundamental, and that is really what the American Dream is about, is owning your own little bit of free country where you can be left alone.

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01:38:37.000 We're really excited for when we get the Castro physical location up, so we can have the physical space to hang out at and play skee-ball!

01:38:43.000 Legit, we're gonna get a skeeball machine.

01:38:45.000 That'll be awesome.

01:38:45.000 Yeah.

01:38:46.000 Alright, Clint Torres, of course!

01:38:47.000 Yes!

01:38:48.000 With the first Super Chat saying, howdy people!

01:38:50.000 Happy Taco Tuesday.

01:38:50.000 Go to the gym.

01:38:52.000 I had fajita and egg for breakfast and lady for dinner.

01:38:55.000 What kind did y'all have?

01:38:57.000 I had pollo asado with corn tortillas and it was delicious.

01:39:03.000 Nice.

01:39:03.000 So it was in fact Taco Tuesday.

01:39:04.000 I didn't think about it but, you know, I enjoyed it.

01:39:06.000 I had a taco last night.

01:39:07.000 Does that count?

01:39:08.000 It was Tuesday somewhere.

01:39:10.000 I had a burrito taco.

01:39:12.000 It was wonderful.

01:39:14.000 Oh, yeah.

01:39:15.000 Those are amazing.

01:39:16.000 All right.

01:39:19.000 Let's go.

01:39:19.000 Mike Ease, is anyone else here to see what hairstyle Serge has?

01:39:24.000 I mean, it doesn't change, does it?

01:39:25.000 It's rad.

01:39:26.000 No?

01:39:26.000 Right now, Surge is rocking sort of a loose curl, sort of free-flowing effect.

01:39:30.000 You know, he's not scrunching his curls to give it that real ringlet look.

01:39:34.000 He's more relaxed.

01:39:36.000 It's almost an ode to the 70s in some ways, I would say.

01:39:38.000 All right.

01:39:40.000 Tyler for Paige says, just wanted to say thank you for donating to my GoFundMe last night.

01:39:43.000 Was able to get another month worth of medication and gas for dialysis.

01:39:47.000 That rules.

01:39:47.000 Best of luck, man.

01:39:50.000 Quantum Strange Quark says, howdy up there, Clint?

01:39:52.000 Everybody knows Clint's gonna be the first Super Chat.

01:39:55.000 Let's go.

01:39:57.000 Big7588 says, Free Tibet.

01:40:00.000 The Republic of China is the lawful government.

01:40:02.000 The CCP are an illegal occupying force.

01:40:06.000 Does that mean that Taiwan has the right to intifada China?

01:40:13.000 You mean West Taiwan?

01:40:14.000 West Taiwan.

01:40:15.000 I think so.

01:40:16.000 Let's go.

01:40:20.000 I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, you know, Kingsman Secret Service was meant to be an entertaining spy thriller, not a roadmap to solving climate change.

01:40:26.000 Isn't that weird that you've got movies like this?

01:40:29.000 Okay, you've got the show Utopia.

01:40:31.000 Mm-mm.

01:40:31.000 Have you seen that one?

01:40:32.000 But everybody talks about this in relation to this conversation.

01:40:35.000 And then you have, similarly, you have Kingsman, which they're both about tech billionaire megalomaniacs who want a coal population.

01:40:35.000 Right.

01:40:42.000 Kingsman was, it was, I remember watching it being like, Kind of, kind of wild premise, but I think I know where that idea comes from.

01:40:49.000 Good movie, by the way.

01:40:49.000 Yep.

01:40:50.000 I thoroughly enjoyed it.

01:40:51.000 Second one was okay.

01:40:53.000 Um, I think I watched the third one and I wasn't as into it.

01:40:56.000 I like all of them, you know, but the first one was really good.

01:40:59.000 Let's go.

01:40:59.000 What do we got here?

01:41:02.000 All right, BBS Fan says, stop threatening to send people here to Alaska.

01:41:08.000 By the way, shipping to Alaska makes your coffee too much money.

01:41:10.000 Saving up $35,000 for a septic is more important.

01:41:13.000 Well, fair point, fair point.

01:41:15.000 Shipping is brutal, is brutal.

01:41:17.000 That's a heck of a septic system.

01:41:19.000 Yeah, $35,000.

01:41:20.000 Yeah.

01:41:21.000 IMBP says, PBD hosting Dave Smith versus Chris Cuomo on May 31st.

01:41:25.000 It's going to be glorious.

01:41:27.000 It is indeed.

01:41:29.000 I don't know what Chris Cuomo was thinking. 0.65

01:41:32.000 Dave Smith is, like, an assassin.

01:41:35.000 Like, I mean, of all the people to sit down with, he said, Dave Smith, that makes sense.

01:41:41.000 I'm like... But he probably didn't get a say, right?

01:41:44.000 Like, if he's a contracted employee of whatever PBD's company is, like, he has to make an appearance.

01:41:50.000 Yeah.

01:41:50.000 Whereas, like, I mean, maybe, I could be wrong.

01:41:52.000 I don't know what his contract looks like.

01:41:53.000 But it's Dave Smith or the alternate that gets the option to say, no, it doesn't seem like Chris Cuomo could have.

01:42:00.000 I suppose that's the benefit to hiring people like Chris Cuomo.

01:42:05.000 You know, I was thinking, I'm like... The whipping boy.

01:42:07.000 Yeah, you just make him look like a fool all the time. 1.00

01:42:09.000 Well, it's not just that. 0.99

01:42:09.000 It's like, we try to book people all the time that should be challenged. 0.99

01:42:13.000 They won't do it.

01:42:14.000 They don't want to be challenged.

01:42:15.000 Yeah.

01:42:15.000 So you just put him on payroll so he has to be.

01:42:17.000 Yeah, so maybe that's the real play that PBD's making and he can't say it.

01:42:20.000 He's like, look, we put this guy in payroll and then we get to put him on camera every time and have that debate.

01:42:26.000 I mean, was it...

01:42:28.000 Uh, wasn't Tucker employed by CNN at one point?

01:42:30.000 Like, this happens, there are all kinds of concerns to get hired by the other side.

01:42:34.000 I don't think that other people would do it for Fox News, but like... Yeah, but to be fair, CNN was very different back then.

01:42:39.000 Yeah, crossfire days.

01:42:40.000 Yep, remember that?

01:42:41.000 And then Tucker was also on MSNBC.

01:42:43.000 MSNBC was like, was it moderate corporate?

01:42:46.000 Now it's far left?

01:42:48.000 Right after 9-11 I listened to a ton of MSNBC and I watched MSNBC every day from like 9-11 until like 2010 when it just got to the point where I couldn't watch it anymore because they started actually, the thing that set it off for me was I was just like alright, Morning Joe's starting to make comments about Assault weapons bans and stuff like that.

01:43:08.000 I'm like, you're supposed to be a Republican.

01:43:09.000 I'm like, I can't watch this anymore.

01:43:10.000 But that's the thing.

01:43:10.000 It's like it happened all the time.

01:43:11.000 Like you see all these left-leaning or these mainstream middle-of-the-road places going to the left.

01:43:18.000 All right, let's go.

01:43:19.000 Project Editan says, I'm in Baltimore County, Maryland.

01:43:22.000 Went to vote.

01:43:23.000 They gave me the wrong ballot twice.

01:43:25.000 Both were Democrat.

01:43:26.000 Went back for a third time. 0.71

01:43:27.000 They had to go to the end of the table, move a bunch of crap off the unopened Republican ballots. 0.63

01:43:31.000 Wow. 0.99

01:43:33.000 Crazy.

01:43:34.000 Well, we don't trust Maryland, so what are you gonna do?

01:43:36.000 Is that unopened because it's Baltimore County and therefore there are just not that many Republicans?

01:43:40.000 Or is he saying that they're trying to get him to vote as a Democrat?

01:43:42.000 Trying to get him to vote as a Democrat, I'd imagine.

01:43:44.000 Let's go!

01:43:45.000 Domagod says, what is it with dems and brains?

01:43:48.000 Reza ate them, RFK Jr. 0.99

01:43:50.000 had his eaten, Biden doesn't have one, and the woke have a mind virus.

01:43:54.000 That is quite humorous.

01:43:55.000 It is also funny that John Fetterman broke his brain and then kind of woke up.

01:44:01.000 Like, you know, he he had a TBI or a stroke, technically, I guess.

01:44:06.000 And in that stroke, he kind of came to his senses and it cured his mental illness.

01:44:10.000 And now he's thinking rationally amongst the Democrats.

01:44:13.000 On some things, which is wild to see.

01:44:15.000 K.S.

01:44:16.000 Corey says, I just looked at the list of 100.

01:44:18.000 My local Red Lobster closed yesterday, but wasn't on the list.

01:44:21.000 Probably a lot more closing than they want to admit.

01:44:24.000 Or they announce like, here's the ones we've closed, while others are in the process of closing.

01:44:28.000 Right.

01:44:28.000 And they're also saying like, we're starting the auctions of the equipment at these 50 places, but that doesn't mean it's exclusive to these 50 places.

01:44:36.000 It's just where the start is.

01:44:37.000 I'd imagine, given that they're filing for bankruptcy protection, this is probably very similar to the Bed Bath & Beyond story, where they sort of announce that they're going bankrupt and then it's a three to four year journey as they roll off stores and try to protect any existing cash flow.

01:44:50.000 Are you saying people are going to be able to buy the Red Lobster decor at one point?

01:44:53.000 Get your cheddar biscuits while you can.

01:44:55.000 No, you could buy, like, the shelves from the clothing Bed Bath & Beyond.

01:44:58.000 Like, people could buy the Red Lobster sign in a couple years.

01:45:01.000 The little fish tanks where they put the lobsters.

01:45:03.000 Get them while they're hot.

01:45:04.000 Those are expensive.

01:45:06.000 Yeah, I don't think there's another Sears that exists anymore.

01:45:13.000 I don't know.

01:45:14.000 I remember going to Sears, this was in Deptford, New Jersey I think is where it was, and everything was for sale.

01:45:22.000 Just literally the shelves, the hooks that go into the shelves, all for sale.

01:45:27.000 The chairs, computers.

01:45:29.000 I was like, I'd love to buy one of these point of sales terminals, you know what I mean?

01:45:32.000 But everything, it was crazy because it was like a weird shelf and it was like sold.

01:45:36.000 Like someone came in and said, I want this display rack.

01:45:38.000 And they're like, all of it has got to go.

01:45:41.000 And then I think they, what did they turn it into?

01:45:43.000 I can't remember.

01:45:44.000 There are only 11 left.

01:45:45.000 11 Sears.

01:45:46.000 10 in continental US and one in Puerto Rico.

01:45:48.000 This is the crazy thing.

01:45:49.000 Why didn't they become Amazon? 0.99

01:45:51.000 They had distribution centers already.

01:45:53.000 Yep, they could have, but they didn't see the writing on the wall.

01:45:55.000 It's sort of the BlackBerry versus iPhone story, which is a great movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it.

01:46:00.000 But, yeah, about the BlackBerry story.

01:46:02.000 But, you know, BlackBerry had the opportunity to be the iPhone, but they were so tied to the clicking and they thought consumers would never love a touchscreen.

01:46:09.000 Steve Jobs was crazy enough to believe that they would and he went after it.

01:46:13.000 I can't remember the founder of Blackberry.

01:46:15.000 He had been debating for years trying to develop a touchscreen and just wouldn't do it, wouldn't go the smartphone route.

01:46:21.000 And then Apple comes onto the scene and blows up.

01:46:23.000 Amazon had plenty of those storefronts that could have gone into the digital age.

01:46:28.000 It's the same story with Blockbuster versus Netflix.

01:46:31.000 People thought Netflix was a joke and Blockbuster's the future.

01:46:34.000 Blockbuster stuck to their guns and Netflix saw a future and went after it.

01:46:38.000 But here's the other thing to consider.

01:46:40.000 The people who are behind these things, the brand may be dead, but the people behind them don't go anywhere.

01:46:46.000 So we're all saying, like, wow, how did Sears go out of business?

01:46:50.000 I'd imagine that a lot of people retired, very wealthy, who were running this corporation, and they didn't care.

01:46:55.000 Younger guys who were heavily invested moved their money over to Amazon in shares and didn't think twice.

01:47:00.000 And then when Sears started going under, they said, liquidate it, pull out the cash we can.

01:47:03.000 We're in Amazon now.

01:47:04.000 So these individuals who are at the highest level, they don't go anywhere.

01:47:08.000 Well, not only that, most of the time when a company's going through a bankruptcy proceeding like this, they'll hire a CEO that's experienced in bankruptcies, that's basically cleaning up all the assets to get ready for a sale.

01:47:17.000 And so you're right, all of the existing people, the minute that there's blood in the water, they've detached themselves from it.

01:47:22.000 They have no brand loyalty to it anymore.

01:47:25.000 And they bring in a team that is there to basically salvage any assets that are remaining.

01:47:31.000 But it's interesting.

01:47:33.000 the world. I was driving by a mall recently, I can't remember where I was, uh, Indiana.

01:47:38.000 I was driving by a mall and half of the mall stores were completely shuttered. There was no more,

01:47:44.000 everything was for lease. Nothing was actually occupied other than a few small stores.

01:47:49.000 And I do think that there is a massive, uh, awakening coming in the world of sort of commercial

01:47:56.000 real estate for a lot of these things. Like it'll be fascinating to see what comes of the old Sears

01:48:00.000 buildings as they continue to advance forward. Does anybody even need that space anymore? A lot

01:48:04.000 of them are turning into churches or health centers or these different things. But, uh, yeah, I think

01:48:10.000 There are cities where unoccupied office buildings, because of the big conversion to remote work, they're now saying like, well, do we turn these, I think it was Boston, it was like, should we turn into apartments?

01:48:20.000 What should we do with them?

01:48:21.000 You know, anecdotally with the mall, I always find it interesting because there was, when I lived in Dallas, there was one mall that was like, I guess it had been really great back in the day, but the movie theater was still there and it was really inexpensive to go.

01:48:32.000 But also the storefronts, it would be like, This is my personal art gallery for the art that I make like it was getting some sort of like weird or like there's a mall nearby that like a church has a storefront in and I just find this deeply fascinating because at a certain point the mall needs someone to be there.

01:48:48.000 At what point does it become sort of a more urban cities small town like Main Street Square because they're all right there.

01:48:54.000 Is it a salvageable thing or do they have to say like This is something we shut down.

01:48:59.000 There was a mall in I'm trying to think what is it somewhere in Rhode Island, there was a big sort of mall type area, but it's a historic structure.

01:49:07.000 And they turned the upper level of it into basically tiny home sized apartments, you know, so it'd be like really small, like basically efficiency studio apartments.

01:49:17.000 And then they kept the lower level as like this area and it meant that they had residents there who would then go to the coffee shops or stuff that were in the area.

01:49:23.000 There's a potential to change these things.

01:49:26.000 On the other hand, will we return to the iconic mall era?

01:49:29.000 Probably not.

01:49:30.000 Would you go back to the 90s if you had a time machine?

01:49:33.000 Oh yeah.

01:49:33.000 Malls scream nostalgia.

01:49:34.000 I used to skateboard on the top of a mall in high school on the roof and you'd get in trouble but it was awesome and you'd hang out in the food court for hours and it just it screams classic Americana.

01:49:44.000 Absolutely would.

01:49:46.000 I feel bad for young people.

01:49:48.000 You know, it's funny because I always remember, like, older generation being like, we had eight tracks, you know, and you'd put it in and you'd play the song.

01:49:57.000 It's like, wow.

01:49:58.000 And we had cassettes.

01:49:58.000 And now it's like, now there's a floppy disk icon in programs that young people like these Gen Z kids are like, what is that?

01:50:05.000 But outside of all of that technology changes stuff that happens to a lot of people, the You know, up until the internet, every generation had the hanging out at the mall and goofing off and being chased by security guards.

01:50:19.000 And there's movies where it's like, you're a kid in the 90s and you're watching a movie where a dude's skating in the 80s, running from a security guard.

01:50:26.000 And I'm like, oh, been there.

01:50:27.000 That's so funny that it's like the people who are in that movie are basically our parents today.

01:50:33.000 We have a shared experience of what it's like to hang out with our friends at the park.

01:50:35.000 And, you know, now it's, it's, that's, that's just not the case a little bit, but it's not the same.

01:50:40.000 Think about that scene in Mean Girls where they're at the school, they're like, we're going to the mall and they bring her and then she describes it as if it's sort of like observing the wildlife of teenagers and these people are over there and these people are doing whatever.

01:50:52.000 Like that aspect of socialization went away for huge generations of young people and then we wonder why they socialize differently, why they're more anxious.

01:51:01.000 Like they aren't doing the things that generations did before them and so they effectively view the world in a very different and ultimately anti-social way.

01:51:08.000 I think what I'll do is I'm going to invest all of the money we make into building a device that traps all of humanity in the years of the early 80s when Men at Work were at the top of the charts.

01:51:20.000 I don't mind this.

01:51:21.000 Because that was the only time that mattered.

01:51:23.000 Because Overkill is like one of the best songs ever and we can sit there and listen to it all day every day.

01:51:27.000 And of course, Land Down Under.

01:51:30.000 Talk about one of the best songs ever written.

01:51:32.000 It's the way we salvage humanity.

01:51:33.000 That's right.

01:51:33.000 Let's read some more Super Chats.

01:51:35.000 Just cuz I'm free says I think the Federal Reserve will wait to spike the economy till Trump gets elected Unless he plays ball with the deep state is blackmail the correct term.

01:51:45.000 I Won't be surprised the the Fed can deeply control But I don't know if you look at their balance sheet and you look at the like the inflation and stuff I don't know that the the Federal Reserve can actually navigate their way out of this one No, and I don't think that it I don't I think the If you think that the Federal Reserve would harpoon Trump's presidency because it's Trump, I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.

01:52:13.000 When everything falls apart, to call it falling apart is insufficient.

01:52:20.000 Like I said, I don't think that the United States loses the dollar and has an economic restructuring without like a world war or without significant wars happening in other parts of the world.

01:52:33.000 Because the United States, whether or not people like it or think it's good or not, the United States is essentially the global police force, the way that it essentially works right now.

01:52:45.000 And if there's a significant change to the status quo in the United States, you're going to have serious, serious repercussions throughout the whole world.

01:52:54.000 I gotta read this one.

01:52:55.000 James Eaton says, Tim, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

01:52:58.000 I can't watch right now.

01:52:59.000 I'm in the hospital with my dad, but I just want to thank you.

01:53:02.000 Your explanation on what to do for a sucking chest wound might have saved his life.

01:53:06.000 I hope it did save his life.

01:53:09.000 I imagine he got some kind of lung punctured, but I will just point this out again, and the reason why I've brought up the idea of how to treat a sucking chest wound, you guys are familiar with what this is, is because when I was a teenager, I think I was probably like early 20s.

01:53:24.000 There was a story in my neighborhood of a dude who got into a fight, and someone, he got stabbed in the chest, and got up and ran off, and then a minute and a half later, collapsed dead.

01:53:34.000 And it's crazy to think that that strike to the chest, if only he knew to like, man, like hold a credit card over it or even something, he'd be alive!

01:53:44.000 And so this is one of the things they teach you in hostile environment courses, first aid courses.

01:53:48.000 The general, there's a bunch of complicated ways to do it.

01:53:50.000 Some say if you have no choice, you hold a credit card over it to seal the wound.

01:53:54.000 But if you get, and definitely consult a medical professional

01:53:57.000 because I'm gonna give you the rudimentary, I did first aid hostile environment training.

01:54:01.000 You take, if you have plastic wrap, you put it over the wound, you tape down three sides.

01:54:06.000 And what that does is when there's a hole in the, where the lung is, when the person tries to inhale,

01:54:12.000 There's no pressure differential, so no air actually moves.

01:54:16.000 The chest cavity expands and the air that's in there stays in there so the person is asphyxiating while thinking they're breathing and then they just die.

01:54:23.000 But if you seal the hole, when they're breathing, then it pulls air in, pushes air out, pulls air in, that's how it works, and what happens when you put the plastic over it, tape it down to three sides, is that when they inhale, it pulls the plastic up to their chest, and when they exhale, I'm sorry, when they inhale, the expanding pressure forces air out of the hole because it can't pull air in, which pushes the pressure back out, allowing them to breathe better.

01:54:48.000 It was just a crazy idea because, like, there are these moments where if you just knew the tiniest bit of it, if someone said one sentence to you, someone could be alive.

01:54:58.000 That's the craziest thing.

01:54:59.000 You can buy stuff like this, like hyphen vents.

01:55:01.000 These are actual chest seals.

01:55:03.000 You can buy stuff like this on Amazon.

01:55:05.000 You can buy tourniquets on Amazon.

01:55:06.000 Or Public Square.

01:55:07.000 We got it all today.

01:55:08.000 Or Public Square.

01:55:08.000 There you go.

01:55:09.000 Come on, Phil.

01:55:10.000 Just saying.

01:55:11.000 You can get all kinds of first aid stuff that is not expensive.

01:55:14.000 It's not going to end up You know, crushing your bank account or whatever.

01:55:19.000 Could make a huge difference.

01:55:22.000 Yeah, well you can save lives.

01:55:24.000 And a lot of people talk about guns and stuff like that and carrying guns and stuff.

01:55:28.000 Look, you're way more likely to find a use for a tourniquet or pressure bandages.

01:55:34.000 Those are great.

01:55:35.000 Pressure bandages are great.

01:55:36.000 Or gauze than you are for a gun.

01:55:38.000 So get first aid training and get a bunch of first aid stuff and stuff it into your car and into a bag.

01:55:43.000 This one blew my mind.

01:55:44.000 When I did hostile environment training, and they're teaching the basis of tourniquets, they were giving instruction on femoral bleed tourniquet, and people put it Close to the knee, they put it, I don't know how you describe it, above or below, but they were like, you have to put the tourniquet above the wound so that the blood doesn't pour out of the body.

01:56:07.000 And I went, oh.

01:56:09.000 And I was like, I can't believe there were people that did not realize that the purpose of the tourniquet is to cut off the blood flow to pouring out of the bleed.

01:56:17.000 Crazy thing, as an aside, is he showed a pig femoral bleed and a guy passed out instantly.

01:56:23.000 There's that, I don't know what it's called, but it triggers some nerve when you see the blood flow, and some people faint.

01:56:29.000 And he just, he puts on the screen the pig bleeding, and a guy just hits the ground.

01:56:34.000 We hear a bang, the chairs flip over, they're folding chairs.

01:56:37.000 And then the instructor immediately runs over, grabs his legs, and lifts his legs up, which increases the blood pressure to the brain.

01:56:43.000 The guy comes to and tries getting up, and the instructor yells, do not move!

01:56:47.000 And the guy just freezes.

01:56:48.000 And the guy on the ground goes, I'm fine, I'm fine.

01:56:50.000 He goes, no you're not!

01:56:51.000 You passed out and the only reason you're conscious is I'm holding your legs up.

01:56:54.000 Stay where you are.

01:56:55.000 It was wild.

01:56:56.000 Crazy story.

01:56:57.000 Let's read some more Super Chats. 0.91

01:56:59.000 Colby Hansen says, Michael, I love the vision, but what are you doing to extend to the West Coast?

01:57:03.000 Here in Utah, representation is a bit lackluster aside from businesses that are on our side.

01:57:09.000 Great question.

01:57:10.000 First of all, thank you.

01:57:12.000 What I would say is that Utah is actually one of our fastest growing states, which is pretty exciting.

01:57:17.000 We have, obviously, two components of the platform.

01:57:19.000 So we have the e-commerce side, where you can actually shop from all the different businesses, tens of thousands that are selling their products directly online, so that you can get these products shipped towards your door.

01:57:28.000 If you're looking for gauze, if you're looking for tourniquets, if you're looking for coffee, Casper, shout out.

01:57:33.000 Or you're looking for flip skateboards, which I didn't even know was on our platform until earlier today, which is awesome.

01:57:37.000 Winning.

01:57:38.000 I'm still stoked on that.

01:57:40.000 E-commerce is great for that.

01:57:41.000 On the local side, my recommendation is keep checking back in every few weeks because you'll be amazed at how quickly that local community on the Near Me tab actually blossoms.

01:57:49.000 But on top of that, if you know a business that you feel like is probably with us, invite them to the platform because you'll be amazed that not only will that business join, We've seen in the data that they'll likely invite three other businesses to join with them.

01:58:01.000 One of the greatest ways that we've actually grown in local communities with our Near Me functionality is when businesses that are already on actually invite other businesses.

01:58:09.000 They're creating this sort of chamber of commerce and that's one of the most exciting aspects of this platform.

01:58:14.000 We were joking about this because I was saying I want to get my hair cut and the only one in the area is actually like an hour and a half away in D.C.

01:58:20.000 And I was like, but I just keep checking.

01:58:21.000 There'll be another salon on there eventually. 1.00

01:58:23.000 Oh, yeah, there will.

01:58:24.000 All right.

01:58:24.000 Even in West Virginia.

01:58:25.000 Come on.

01:58:26.000 Bill Levin says, Tim, you had a hand in saving my life.

01:58:28.000 That's two in one night.

01:58:30.000 I live in Vegas, was a federal contractor, drank heavily and hated life.

01:58:34.000 You said over and over, get out of these cities and move to red states.

01:58:36.000 I listened.

01:58:37.000 I got early retirement.

01:58:38.000 My wife works remote and we're happy in Texas since October.

01:58:41.000 I'm glad.

01:58:42.000 It's a different kind of saving life.

01:58:43.000 But You know, I just, there's a lot of people I know that, the reason why I was saying earlier in the show about having purpose, seeing the news and having it light a fire within you, to be the warrior, is that there's a lot of people who are lost without purpose.

01:58:57.000 There's a lot of people wondering why they're here and asking these questions, a lot of young people who are depressed and angry, and some of these kids are going towards the woke cult because it provides a pseudo-purpose.

01:59:07.000 Be one of us, join the mission, and it's giving, no, no, no, idle hand's the devil's playground.

01:59:12.000 We need to make A more divine playground.

01:59:15.000 We need to put into the hands of young people divine purpose, that is, to create life, to protect life, to make the world better, to bring a wholesome dignity to our society, to protect and help it flourish.

01:59:29.000 We've got this tremendous force in wokeness that is a chaotic, destructive force that is amoral, it is without morals, and it seeks to pull people who are missing their purpose and their mission into darkness.

01:59:44.000 We don't have, I don't believe, a very strong counter-movement.

01:59:46.000 We have people who believe in freedom. 0.99

01:59:48.000 We have people who are like, those people are crazy.

01:59:51.000 But we don't have a comparable force of, what's the right word? 0.82

01:59:55.000 Generacy?

01:59:57.000 You've got degeneracy, but where's the inversion of people being like, let's make a world better.

02:00:02.000 That being said, they do exist.

02:00:04.000 I think what Daily Wire's doing with BentKey and this children's program is absolutely amazing.

02:00:08.000 Public Square, obviously, that's why we love what you guys do.

02:00:10.000 Thank you.

02:00:13.000 It exists, and I actually think, to put it simply, public square, I think the reason you guys are so important is that that might be the public square of this... It's our goal?

02:00:23.000 You know, it's the inversion of woke.

02:00:25.000 Well, and we always want to, we want to be known more for what we're for and the vision we're casting for the future rather than what we're against.

02:00:31.000 So we get asked all the time, can you guys make a blacklist of all the businesses we should stay away from?

02:00:35.000 It's like, you know that already.

02:00:37.000 You see it in culture.

02:00:39.000 It's a safe assumption that most of the businesses you shop from, if you're just kind of taking the corporate hand, are probably businesses that are working against you.

02:00:45.000 We'd rather spend all of our time, energy, and efforts into showcasing the type of American entrepreneurs you should support.

02:00:50.000 I'd rather focus all of my energy on casting a vision for the future we're trying to create.

02:00:56.000 Because I completely agree, Tim.

02:00:59.000 It is our pure intent at the end of the day to create a new public square.

02:01:03.000 All right, last one.

02:01:04.000 Drew Dane says, is public square open to individuals?

02:01:07.000 I build custom PCs, can't plug my site in a super chat, but I'm sweet information technology on Zuckerbook.

02:01:13.000 Absolutely!

02:01:14.000 You would not be the only one, so come join.

02:01:16.000 We do really well with sole proprietors, the creator economy, we're a massive fan.

02:01:20.000 And ultimately you'll find that obviously not only is it a great values aligned community, but even differentiated from an Amazon, we have a product in terms of how our platform is actually structured that far, far better serves the small businesses or sole proprietorships, individual content creators, etc.

02:01:36.000 The last thing I want to say is just one more thing about Flip Skateboards being on Public Square.

02:01:41.000 This is one of the biggest skate companies in the world with some of the most prominent skateboarders.

02:01:45.000 These are guys who appeared in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater back in the day.

02:01:48.000 The first skateboard I ever owned was a Tom Penny Flip Skateboard.

02:01:52.000 And AWH Skateboard Distribution, one of the biggest in the country, as well as Flip Skateboards, being on Public Square, This is Olympic-level professional equipment asserting publicly that they oppose the woke cult garbage selling a product to where they think it matters, and it's absolutely incredible.

02:02:10.000 So, we're gonna go to the members-only show.

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02:02:47.000 Michael, do you want to shout anything out?

02:02:49.000 Just that it's awesome to be here.

02:02:51.000 You can check out Public Square at publicsquare.com.

02:02:53.000 If you'd like to check out, if you're a parent, you'd like to check out the baby brand that I referenced earlier, that's everylife.com.

02:02:59.000 And then we own a few other really cool businesses in the parallel economy.

02:03:02.000 We'd encourage you to join us on our journey.

02:03:03.000 You can change the country with the power of your wallet.

02:03:05.000 So please, please, please do not be apathetic.

02:03:08.000 Put your hope for a better future into your purchasing power and change the country with the power of your commerce.

02:03:14.000 And think about how cool this is.

02:03:16.000 You're looking for a bite to eat, you open the Public Square app, you look at the map, you see a burger joint, you walk in, the owner's behind the counter making burgers, and you know you can be like, I saw you guys in Public Square, and he's gonna be like, awesome!

02:03:27.000 And that means you can talk freely about all of the things you want to talk about because you know this person's not gonna be in a nut job.

02:03:33.000 You got it!

02:03:34.000 It's that simple.

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02:03:58.000 Well, it's been so fun to have you here, Michael.

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